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acquitted the 1st time but will donald trump make it out unscathed a 2nd time he faces charges of inciting insurrection and a possible disqualification from future public office we'll bring you the latest developments from capitol hill trump on trial on al-jazeera we know what's happening i weekend we know how to get the date is that others cannot fire is this going on the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference. hello i'm maryam namazie and london our main story this hour a united libya might be a step closer with an agreement for an interim government a prime minister from the west of the country and head of the presidency council from the east have been chosen in talks brokered by the united nations countries been split by 2 opposing administrations which emerged following the end of monica duffy's rule a decade ago james base is at the united nations well this is obviously an
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important development we now have a new interim government for libya we have an ambitious timeline to elections this year to take place on the 24th of december but there are many parts one we've been here before there was a u.n. backed government announced 5 years ago that came to absolutely nothing that unity government as you say we have the foreign fighters and foreign involvement in libya certainly a deadline has passed for all foreign forces to leave libya and they have not left the country. in all their lines the u.s. house of representatives is approved a budget package which should help the president's recovery plan joe biden and appeal to republicans who are holding up progress of his nearly 2 trillion dollars stimulus plan it came as new figures showed there were a few a new jobs in the month of january than had been hoped. too many people nation have already suffered for too long through this pandemic an economic crisis and telling
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them we don't have the money to leave you to suffer to get to full employment soon to vaccinate america after 8 trillion dollars in deficit spending over the past 4 years much of it having gone to the wealthiest people in the country is the true nor necessary we do have the resources to get to full employment sooner we do have the tools to reduce a lot of suffering in this country. we just have to choose to use them so it's time to act russian opposition leader alexina valleys appeared in court again as his case dominated diplomatic discussions he was accused of song during a war veteran a charge he denies meanwhile the e.u.'s foreign policy chief called for his release at a joint news conference with the russian foreign minister in moscow instead the kremlin expelled diplomats from 3 e.u. nations dominic kane is in ballin. the view in berlin the view
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in paris as has been made very clear by angela merkel and emmanuel mark karr on friday afternoon is will they have reacted if not angrily but strongly to the expulsion of 3 diplomats e.u. diplomats one of them german from moscow on the basis of what the russian government has said was inappropriate behavior for diplomats of the german government angle merkel saying that she believed it was totally unjustified for the russian government to take the action it did and emmanuel mcconnell speaking in a digital conference with angle americal the 2 had been meeting in a digital format as part of a franco german security council mr merkel made very clear in his opinion he had condemned firmly everything that had happened in the process that mr novelli found himself in from the moment he was poisoned back in august to now where he finds himself in a prison serving
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a freshly imposed prison sentence and so you have to view what's the use reaction to what has happened on friday through that prism remember that the 2 leaders merkel and mccann have been perhaps the most strongly spoken in condemning what has happened to mr novelli and the way that the situation has evolved over the course of the past few months and so on that basis the explains the sort of language we're hearing now coming both from paris and from berlin international criminal court says it has territorial jurisdiction over palestine that strengthens the prosecutor's earlier submission to the court to investigate alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by israel in the occupied palestinian territories well that includes the gaza strip the occupied west bank and east jerusalem those that lines coming up next chocolates heart of darkness looks at the dark side
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of a $100000000000.00 industry that's the program coming up next. chocolate is an ever increasing global passion. each year we had $7000000.00 tonnes of it and the amount doubles every 10 years. chalk that is celebrated through trade fairs and exhibitions. the industry flux in from the uk to senility chocolate maker to the transnational corporations that dominate the market even export in countries come to tell european kids the beautiful story of the cocoa bean mother of their
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favorite tricks google is a local do you want. to be. the person to call. the freedom. of his upper lip couples if they got to like i do look up both plus one good no bra to the couple the move on to something comes up from the licky of a truck they did that she. does up salability. this is one of the come. within the chocolate show a small space a surprisingly open 2 and gio but does not pull punches. to the demo should you take out a book you don't even down and then if they've even met moseyed you tonight is off on that is cash the time i don't see a film to come by this often say that you know the point you see me kind of the mass sad depressed trader. industrials want to show they also want to save the
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planet and to. keep their hands clean they pledged transparency. he said you see you smile at small print don't do that defy steps you want to tell i didn't formally protest or discuss additional ballots i don't want to traffic or show issue that. is that was event. over the past 10 years the chocolate industry committed to do whatever they could to save the forests and send children to school but what happens to these good intentions once you hit the road and go on the field . this is john howard economic capital of ivory coast the country accounts for 40 percent of the world's cocoa production without knowing it we mostly eat ivorian
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cocoa there are no joined cocoa plantations monitored by multinationals not in the in ivory coast nor elsewhere cocoa is grown by hundreds of thousands of promise on small isolated because. it will then go through a long chain of brokers. it gets john's phone before ending on a supermarket shelf. we will try to go upstream along that chain until the soldiers go with foreign armies are not expected. at the far west of the country 8 hours away from the capital city stunned the great forests 40 percent of 5 orian cocoa comes from that. we are still on the main road but when they see our camera some kids run away or sign we're getting closer to the cocoa every.
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good to know what he thinks about elizabeth i do think like. a little bit of an innocent. child labor strictly forbidden in cocoa farming punishable by 6 months in jail but it remains elusive we have reached the far west we left the main road now and trails can turn into my plagues. the. moment a 2nd when something. is put on the lots of us most important. when trucks make it through the mud they may come across strange militias that those of us they say they're protecting the population they collect money from whoever goes through particularly from coca trucks.
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to do up as it. is you know. again your shallowness and you. are not. we are about 10 kilometers from liberia this is one of the last protected forests in west africa the ground to be a forest. or what's left of the. trees stand out like a big white skeletons they have been killed to give ground to cocoa old that green underneath the white wood is cocoa. illegal plantation this forest is protected no one can claim property on apostle let alone grow anything on it.
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in theory access has to big. ranted by the water and forests department so therefore is the state agency in charge of the protection of forest preserves but the law doesn't apply here. after a 4 hour ride on trucks we reach an on authorized settlement. this is a lawless. callender stun farmers took hold of a forest that doesn't belong to them we better not say we're journalists in the heart of the forest everyone is suspicious and ivorian angio member 'd is leading. around 40 people live on this camp in hearts men and children only they drink the water from the river and eat the bananas and cause some of they grow in the forest
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they pick the cocoa pods and cut them open with a machete. back to have skilful hands the shells off on the machetes shot. by. the passion. among all of that yeah i don't know what you. believe in a minute the union had been assigned precious cocoa beans shaun white and when. they are drawing to 1st time before being put into bags then bias will come on trucks to bind them play a call to the truckers. fall. back on with.
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the work has a very young age is obvious. here a 3rd of the workers are children and. youngsters are not ivorian they're all migrants from neighboring booking a fossil a country plagued by drought. ivorian cocoa is the only hope of survival. of. demonic is only 13. really good football but only. if you're going to get rid of the one that's one of your very important holiday that you might not need to hear while well mind you then what i think i wanted the lab underneath is so if i don't have a democracy to follow or they don't come on to listen to what i've been about all of them want little of anything that i'm not a kid as
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a cause so don't go on with. the buckeyes the youngest in this county fight the crowds at the guys who don't. know no fun to. play in their lives. and. who can. enjoy them but the above will go by that name is only your full name we seek was just. a fan don't need to tell my life but i'll look it does divide the fun see don't save coins cause he wanted to got a pretty big idea of home and i do enough as it were a lot of money he has so much as i. actually want more utica carol i think he's going to send it to stick use it on t.c. for as the new one g.p. don't like to keep stuff on our boys so nobody here would be too far off to the grocery store well as they like i know those who lead guys as it did when they saw
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anybody and that you feel countdown. to me to change to see provocateur go off. on you know boys are done. i do. feel reticulated this forest chippy monitored by the ivorian all thora to use namely the water and forests department. we're using it doesn't require us to sit for she just may need to use a med. officially the oddball rian government has a plan to fight deforestation move old a pharmacy in to a special zone dedicated to cocoa sector funds 40 percent of the forest in order to regenerate the other 60 percent. but for now nothing's changed plan just on workers keep coming from book enough aso
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fling droughts and. misery holding on stis who work here arrived when they were kids they have been here for years the forest is their prison as east is one of them the college park that ever lived and. that he saw big enough walking through wedlock and in the love of the deep in season and then it continues i'm a woman but. i reckon there's a. kind of a family that drives doctors on what i remember them a lot as event and i think the truth awful awful but only if the children they were going to bring you know no knowledge and from clinton he went on that war not only to do that not only was defeated even as an example of that for us is to set an end up and yet he doesn't do just amazing things like. this is that darkest secret of the clan just on plantations. has been working 5
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years for free and this year for the 1st time as a reward his boss gave him a small cocoa postle he could sell his own production and finally earn a bit of real money. food for work for years and then a lot cement of a few cocoa trees that's the reality in the green day be feet. on deep has just received his 1st possible from his books. if it is not entirely like going to allow you to visit no need to play neighbor may do news got out of lazy they do i love put that out of my mind going to the club or the lead on this is a whole lot of 2nd utah is good so we. may. miss a lot of them with the birth of the who knows you mean. by the. set and then
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i'm back in the home that's 190 kilos grams of cocoa 210 euros this is what andi will make every year from now on. the bit farther on the road we meet the child who has just arrived from book enough fossil his name's licia for him this is just the beginning. and then i. think you're going to embrace it is keeping with the big. i don't think i. don't know you. develop the you want to be. he the question is i'm better sing the kid i mean if i get it.
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if you probably voted money i put it in the bushel. i don't think you feel tamara because you feel as they come to know what i believe is a got too many more than imposed on it they're putting it on as. a saying duty for . one of us in the us. ok ok well this. what are the other fellow like to. the city of video is 40 kilometers away from the forest bassists the last stop for the children from the kenya they are sold by the parents to work in cocoa plantations the central bus station is where plan to spawn the. humanitarian accomplice will try to approach the traffickers pretending he's a cocoa from. the pentagon they set up the
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computer well you know the old do you believe it is very unusual for people to get economic ideas or through eyes closed to a lot of something while because of the assault 2nd. we hide the camera online and geo friend. at the station becomes across 2 tongues they are waiting for the children to iran from booking they can easily spot the most vulnerable who are willing to work for food only they also mention there is a man that the head of this traffic but you know you because you've got no name you got no i mean fallon the whole side of the rover all knew of him was that he thought of. going. to see the fact that he seemed to him a young woman who i thought of i mean you know you can only use him in the us even if they didn't want the wife who shows up if you didn't wife likes him or her work
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or the wrong water. in the nursery i got a lot of money and then the fellows got a good even grosser doing it for bill for women who served. should you find that he funded you shut your pants if you only. have one who wasn't going to make you verify like you like it if you got laid out if you. he did you know even though i don't know if you want to run on his overtures i was invited to go give you. just a few to where one of the kids you know. the old man is the head of the traffic stomping children would do anything to would. we come back the next day the old man is a prominent member of the book a knob
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a community. that like to lose. the vocals just like the rhythm. but you're just a little failure isn't it is a purpose that. we do not find one single point but certainly not i got fired up to write it like that if it. was one of those you don't want to start with that. and be a problem with this and this of this on this i'm a little bit of. the some of this summit all a part of. my life my life is more than life if it wasn't about the outlook at work or good good i was with. the very reason or your fellow dissolute of the band got to do due diligence on those requests that i'm thinking about of where they were going and there's been a pretty. good 2 for the what you call it would you please
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a lot of lead up and then have an ability as a 5 when i went up in pursuit of it it was not. 200000 c.f.a. francs 300 euros the price for a young sleigh for 3 is when our friend is having a coffee the old man is making phone calls but he is wary so he calls up his men in the forest they tell him journalists are looking into clandestine plantations he's acting surprised as if he could not believe. such information but we can sense he is now very suspicious. they're going to dig up i live with you. yes i could never have all. of them away but i do so on that new facility where fred is here where this is what i'd like to not do so for really did you still feel the redness of a. little. what you feel when you. went looking through life
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they sat logic again but need to plan and about and there's a whole you know i did feel for. all this antebellum till it. was as if it was there is another veil. we could never have and to turn to stone plantations without an accomplice the old man doesn't trust a friend and once to confront him to one of his guys who controls the forest it turns out we were constantly monitored we've been busted. out of. bugs or. sickened by the lawyers or ira from mbalula. by name of us was. the mood has changed the head of the traffic doesn't want us to stick around he has suddenly forgotten when the bus arrives. look like ike you know that. if you've got the. keys you know 90 lives of about you
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ellen de mint. in your. bank i'm. betting that well every day i guess. we won't be able to film the transaction all we know is that children are rife on these buses from booking our friends stops one of them and gets on but. we can see a few teenagers who do look worried how many will end up in the forest for years with no patterns no school no hospital. the danger they will have to face this no one's concern in particular the most
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serious and invisible has it in the long run the unprotected use of comfort. to come i'm going to get killed early. we keep coming across children sometimes very young carrying spray is on their backs on the way to the fields what product are they spraying. as a bubble it's about not yet approved for the. buttons on the mouth i think absolutely thrilling to many of. those that get them to read the. feathers it's elizabeth. read had is so named for the color of the bottle cap it is sold everywhere at the edge of the forest no herbicide compound is mentioned. on the bottom so i'm surprised to see. you're sure. most of us. we go deep into the forest on the trail of red head until we find
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another commander stone camp where we finally get to understand how the forest is dying. and when i think i'm going to die well the excessive across. the 4 trail the lottery the borders of it look real good there colossal. i'm no good and then when you feel it too there's uncle work i think son of us even sitting member 100. city because we are going this interview because our. own was also noted only on simplistically fish by the monkey when you do if you don't. like to say tis a toxic herbicide probably cost a new janick according to the world health organization and above all very aggressive to vegetation. send was it just because if this isn't at all 'd where there is a committee he said don't you need to sign something she'll know you're plugged
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into the core you took the good number they can put it so conservative. clause that they failed to put the laundry do do do full steam in someone up on the day and you'll be a dutiful become something. i think i'm psychotic i always are those what i'm sick i'm so sick got to see it differently got talent i blush i do think i would us on whose side develop a. coke come of a faithful could is obvious what do we all can say there's up salad for lead or misty. was sick. they do do they do not is what you go up to be the next if they like you. the president because the press for the other guy . it's america's worst kept secret cracked open the time of
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a pandemic exposed in the time of tromping through the turmoil of 2020 the big picture traces a century of racial injustice to reveal how philanthropy politics and economics preserve structural inequality keeping white a supreme and black in its place a race for america part one on just 0. al-jazeera is investigative unit goes undercover tracking down an international organized crime network. that's going to . go down to exposing direct links to corruption at the highest level of the bangladesh government. the fact that. you see it is very very. al-jazeera investigations all the prime ministers men. the latest news as it breaks human rights groups are questioning why people are
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taken to this isolation senators and the tweet meant they received one fair there with details coverage beyond groups now control the villages that we can see on the other side of the river people who live on this side they can hear gunfire when nephi things from around the world months after that i will cain eruption they say their hearts are now back to normal. hello i'm in london you're watching al-jazeera our main story this hour a united libya might be a step closer with an agreement for an interim government a prime minister from the west of the country and the head of the presidency council from the east have both been chosen in talks brokered by the u.n. but it's not clear if they'll be able to overcome military divisions on the ground the country's been split by 2 opposing of ministrations which emerged following the
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end of one like a daffy israel a decade ago james base is at the united nations well this is obviously an important development we now have a new interim government for libya we have an ambitious timeline to elections this year to take place on the 24th of december bot and there are many parts one we've been here before there was a un backed government announced 5 years ago that came to absolutely nothing no unity government as you say we have the foreign fighters and foreign involvement in libya certainly a deadline has passed for all foreign forces to leave libya and they have not left the country in our other headlines the u.s. house of representatives has approved a budget package which should help the president's recovery plan president joe biden had to appeal to republicans who were holding up progress of his nearly 2 trillion dollars stimulus plan he said he wouldn't concede on $1400.00 direct payments to households it came as new figures showed they were fewer new jobs in
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the month of january than it's been hoped key sectors like manufacturing and retail laid off more workers last month because of the pandemic the international criminal court says it has territorial jurisdiction over palestine well that strengthens the prosecutor's earlier submission to the court to investigate alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by israel in the occupied palestinian territories well this includes the gaza strip the occupied west bank and east jerusalem. russian opposition leader alexina valleys appeared in court again as his case dominated diplomatic discussions he was accused of slandering a war veteran a charge he denies meanwhile the e.u.'s foreign policy chief called for his release at a joint news conference with the russian foreign minister in moscow instead the kremlin expelled diplomats from 3 nations chocolate's heart of darkness now continues but i'll be back with the news hour after that at 2100 g.m.t.
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see you then. a little telling the definitely something one of. only $139.00 stand on the scene at one time bush. also prints on top of that then i will down the hall who filed an affidavit over an interest only loans and holdings and one. super secret ridiculous kanto in kenya back. over the past 25 years about 90 percent of the ivorian forest has disappeared. mostly replaced by cocoa this deforestation keeps spreading and impacts the climate globally less forests mean
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less rain. as the area is destroyed will have to leave it in an ever near a future. fs . within the week in the ground the big forest we witnessed old economist the industry pledged to eradicate slave labor and destruction of the environment however each and every day dozen of tons of this criminal cocoa and test the regular trade. the cocoa purchased by truckers rather keep a low profile where do these bags go who buys in the 1st day are unloaded in shops at the edge of the forest both are legal and plan to stand cocoa made and.
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the bags are opened and all the cocoa beans are mixed together in front of the shop no symbol on the bags no label impossible to track. among the shops that operate outside the forest one has recently undergone an inquiry. cooper web is one of the most important in the region it shows a fair trade label which means no child labor no deforestation fairtrade inspectors came a few months before very seldom practice they didn't disclose their results but cooper web certification has been suspended. what happened.
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after that so the result is he said i have accepted good lessons i said. was it safe i said it would be where but i could kick off. the 2nd. the mover loves itself enough for one to be one less wrong. i just want to close this off it's. the place simply all along as you know though that as the old or as old in the face to see tonight i see a suit of limousine is a fact as i believe that it is often that i miss you but i did you must carry on the. way it is often and you know. what this is a civil way of us because so many people cannot be here lead to some cause. sometimes all fault secured by minimum. ship. good said. don't become
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obvious. secondly it is a specific bit of. the cocoa chain is far from transport and one of the best kept secrets is the identity of the western purchasers the missing link between the forest and our supermarkets it goes that's because by whom you were so good a war you must as opposed to say so no this. is what that. says all for in this day. so let us the. good think the manager won't tell us to whom he sells his cocoa we come back in the evening and the driver spills the big. hill because she's ill we succumb to do.
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all it's cocoa to come again this corporation is unknown to the general public it's an american industry john and they trade commodities they are selling cocoa to the chocolate makers chocolate we can buy new install. we managed to get an interview from congo. i keep valdivia to kill sneaker movie called love to do consul to please. you did she. and i do it he says without being aware of it we all eat cocoa suppliant by congo clean cocoa according to cargo's promise a promise we came to challenge under the scrutiny of the public relations office. c
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only to stick it out then let these awful although no good to tell on any measure or he would deserve to be a good deserves. to have removals is only the cover ideas on false e c c c c if the show's going to see only if you care to please don't. give any sources she. did the no to his old to different model so that the new law will still score political you have been clean and pretty good the cycle song was a lot of people tell. us are not so moch some compose songs and usually. leave a physical i tell you this is not long physic mo. as it is still killing just a little hope that david can cope at eve i think there's all for me. we're committed to quality. the promise commits is to make
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a different commitment is that congo officer substantial premium to certify cooperatives in exchange those cooperatives must improve the daily lawn for farmers by building schools for instance and this is a promise cooper webb is bound to keep. going to cut ideas off. with already said on the memo on the screen the premier goes into the 6 year old i'm going to cope with that. started providing oh. my. god i think this was a doozy. here with an issue that i perceive this year and it was. you i was already. know i lived. in from. you know.
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point the. feel me good old dole. a few. dollars i'm gonna be able to move. also pledged to no longer destroy the forest in order to grow cocoa in 2030 they promised there's 0 d. forestation go go. on a 3. favorite to. do business with them is a lot play to live through this is always the same thing. to. do you work. out you do need this and the kid doesn't have and supports all that without getting some on the movies. books all carry the day tweet or mr c.d.e.
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for if. he's that good about web because it's. all citizen doing and. it was only on stem i see a whole boost. if he looked i think it would have a young was supposed to look and easy i think i could but it. doesn't buzz didn't e if you don't know who you look what he played. this system is mentioned on the card guilds website bar codes on cocoa bags a scam not connected to a satellite office in a state of the art g.p.s. traceability the problem is these images were shocked and gone and i'm very. disappointed. in the 2nd because i could but it could be i went in there but
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could but the so enough. for best all. we asked the program manager about a technological solution to identify the farmers truck. come up with what was all green he said did you do much i don't do a deal not by the fuselage appears. that he said. he's only limping. you. could. i think you know it's just for your b.s. to shut up just a lot could you tell excel said blushing to leave yourself you will see that i just feel so focused on but i don't.
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know about me. but that's all i think process just a mail to guy just a few hours a day 6 lucky the people you suggest about it want to behave toward us from sonia may be full you for if. after the interview we got a message from condit they have checked we are right there are no bond codes on the coco bags from the day before but they are certain 99 percent are from us on our den to find and all of them will be compliant within a year at my store is the problem to decide to sell diskettes as a top aides on phone said i meant they could contact the insurers that's just had to. come to that but custody day got $2.00 truly did only for the best that i kept out of the problem or the 2 months ago i guess they can say to call i see who can come up. to like used to say oh birds have that exact amount i can deposit on
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phone about if you feel sick i just have to say defies this or you cruel but i got a problem because they did see like a people's tongues we went to the carly forests long strange spot on the map one of the few preserved primary forests in west africa it's only 40 kilometers south from the guam baby photos but unlike the guam debate it hasn't been destroyed by coco from yet. however understand from a source settling in the reserve and start to grow cocoa some of them even reported to carry weapons a local ngo is fighting against this traffic our forest our future is doing the job of the police they check on the trucks getting out of the fathers. as.
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when i think on this in leave it. off with. distributive minnesota where when the big phone off as i think i saw another fess up with. him like even above the. classics. they stick. their bums out of a trade as an. alternating winds. and i think. it's. one of those what if. 'd 'd 'd we also wanted to know what was going on where cocoa is grown
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legally since 2012 the ivorian government has implemented a program to fight against child labor they say they invest 5000000 euros a year the of dorothy's create a national surveillance network in which local n.g.o.s play an active and probably the most effective part on the people. who are me and so mine works for one of them landing bang in our. yard or other said do. to go. through that well as invitees or see. if i decide the future day and i thank you so much that this is a far corner that i've on brought up by the fact that i had that was sort of like i woulda said as a bible says it will be different. if you die they could at least mistake for me from now for. us this means as soon you would if he does already these are going through or is just like you saw the theme this brought us you know like i'll kick
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you. in ivory coast children often help out their parents only carries its leader who army is hunting those who do not send their kids to school during the week and then. over there. when it's away they don't want. to go to target us so big city do as a hunter but the militia that. suv toward through. internet. and don't want to do. it that deal is a hunt up a television that is a fund of ali and he called imprisonment you know what it was a. very. they're going to. kwame and works for a small angio funded by international donors but he is
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a former trucker for the cocoa cooperatives he knows all too well why it may be so difficult for farmers to send their kids to school. he was on the desk in front of a sat down as a fan a must for whatever group if there's a good even comparing a clueless offer at a time to take it up a. silk i be sure and i just feel emma forswear this is awful when a bucket is a fight out of a can only come eyes of it that isn't it usually. is a fund overly core to pose a problem separate but equal there's not by the way because christians who are all in the shoes and i do truck out sink are for you know by the way pretty much. even if you want help sometimes at the price of sacrifices some farmers managed to pay the school for their kids not his with the little money they earned from cocoa mr zongo has been working in cocoa for 30 years no slaves here mr zongo is very proud
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of one of his sons really he's doing well in school soon he will go to college he came to london hunter his dad during the school holidays don't fret if it is interesting to see if they did know the procedure for. his faith he said i needed a flash. in the running backs if any don't you when you continue with. this wonderful to be an optimist like many times less than the 4 lives. we think i would not have to say don't do most of my prayers if you need. to go. next to where lou stands his younger brother he's out of school for good his dad had to make a choice it was either him or his brother. invariably a lot of warlords out to throw big teeth. sets out would certainly
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get something on. the road but the game. done. well you know. devo this guy remember. but the pilot is not about why he's a more like you when you get. over kerry thank you. i mean the food the see the video where you get over 30 more yes it's a fairly cordial cover. all of which. were now called you know got a no cell phone number how is the door open for you know one thing to do with the. uses. to take the food the chocolate industry is a $100000000000.00 yearly market for cocoa pharma cording to the french development agency earns less than a euro
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a day for the money want to fit the key solution to rescue children from labor simply was to increase the cocoa promised a question we wanted to see the chocolate industrials. in their rightful. heading to davos a small town in switzerland home to big business events. every 2 years cocoa pulp aeration berry called up invites the main actors of the chocolate industry they keep setting the same goal to put an end to poverty and then they publish nice pictures on the internet. no one's promised to just live off nothing no one wants people to be hungry children. are not educated i mean we're clearly very cold notified us by email we're not welcome and they
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chuckle vision event but we still hope to meet some people we can talk to after all they did commit to public transparency but the hotel security had strict orders about. no counter. yeah. the question we're obsessed with is why they still don't hold. the promise in 2001 almost 20 years ago all chocolate industrials committed to put an end to a child labor they all signed a solemn document spearheaded by the world cocoa foundation we meet one of them on the popular not. simple solutions. are very hard to find for something as complicated as the child labor finale but we all agree that the solution of paying more to the growers as it has not been implemented yet. we are looking at ways to scale up approaches to how
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farmers can improve their income 18 years of. years to lucan what you going to do in the future and nothing is done nowadays efficiently to stop poverty. i would i wouldn't say that nothing is being done now as i mentioned before we have companies that are committed to paying premiums to farmers to help them increase their income levels what about the lawmakers want to they doing about it chocolate is the sun surely the european issue. so we went to the e.u. parliament in brussels. illegal practices in the cocoa supply chain on not sanctioned by the european legislation. the idea how tele a member of parliament from finland often meets chocolate manufacturers. have you walk into an all. boys are surprised.
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we are busy preparing an action plan on what to do with cocoa so that cocoa would not any more course the forestation and shy neighbor and what is really very remarkable is that more and more companies are saying that we need this mandatory due diligence obligation we need lol inform the times. you would have said that companies are masochistic that they are asking for war yes but they have but they want what they call a level playing field because they don't want to be irresponsible and then they see that the irresponsible companies are reaping the profits you know for a cheap price so that's the question because to be responsible may cost a little more. the bit of extra money means more children in school. been troyer to village from most investors the little money they make in their children's future they all chipped in to
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a higher teacher. 200 little pupils attend his class move down the we. found out where there is. hardly ever as you are there but i went and asked. and. there are no where on earth am i to. know. you thank you thank you. thank you sir for. we're very very good. you're very. awful officer.
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