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1st and 2nd degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of 20 year old black man to want to write, he was shot during a routine traffic stop in april. during the trial, prosecutors argued that potter betrayed her badge and flouted the years of training by mistakenly drawing her firearm. is that over taser? during the fatal incident and russian president vladimir putin has told journalists, he views nato's expansion in the eastern europe as unacceptable. and that it's impossible to have good relations with the current ukrainian government. he is urging nature to guarantee will deny membership to ukraine and other former soviet countries. those are the top stories one 0, one east that sweden's at tie berry pickers is coming up next, my colleagues and or how will laugh more news for you? in half an hour, i'll see you soon. bye bye. this is a region that is rapidly developing, but it's one also that is afflicted by conflict. political lupsi world. we've tried

to balance his stories that good the bad, the i, b, and he's the people who allow us into their lives. dignity into my niecy. ask you to tell their story. bmw every year. workers from thailand travel, 8000 kilometers, to scandinavian bost bars. anybody can have them that you sweden's look pretty very tried, depends on um, yoga, but all coordinate people with fed some be a appearing to you, but burden by heavy lungs. there's no guarantee their risk will be matched by reward. pon pon, pon, pon brand, with me gone a lot, me here. hello. oh that my one 0 one east bolos. busy thailand, berry pickers across the globe as they seek fortune in sweden, spars ah,

piling and her husband boot on, leaving a small village in northeast in thailand. but they are about to make a trip far away. the heading to the wild forests of sweet harm. to these prize momento, the atlas of an l. 45 year old udo has been flying to sweden for 20 years. today he's preparing to leave again. who have found them when i get my neck off a fact, i'll be ally and landed at i'm how come what ice bella, my god, i in my yet my mom been cassandra and ain't his wife fi lean is at

a neighbor's house. she'll be traveling with her husband and he's getting her hair done before they gone. oh, she wants to look her best for the trip me. when one long i haven't naughty, good 9. sin i had pulled it when we rely, then hit minot laid out at daveille. let him come to mind before they leave. they pray for a good harvest in sweden. they not kneeling before buddha, all but another precious oak head close to mine. they also pray for good health, so food, alms, left hand was severely injured over 20 years ago. bob, working in a textile factory in taiwan. ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. oh leah. oh, yeah. hey. give credit like a call. hey, pam with mesa,

hazel am i am pan? good amy n, but the hey remco. com little good about me. so i'm newton in pylea, lived in the province of eden tawny. the landscape is shaped by rice fields and sugar plantations in 130 families, leaving their village of da mom. almost every household has had a family member to go to sweden. udo wants to show us where he and his wife will be working. he's relied on these old map for many years, but whether their upcoming journey will be worth it remains to be seen me from what bank up my money. not annoying i yet. my gall. yep. is a pop lab on the market. the math. my yeah. my now then i don't have any time

tomorrow based on what it been me pill, a home company on the blocking me when the elegant, but they're not based on nothing that will come in the opportunity to earn money in sweden does not come shape boot on and piling h taken out a loan of $75000.00 boss around $2400.00. they borrowed the money from a tie employment agency. the price includes of faith along with the flights and what permits they've signed lease contract, which should guarantee working conditions. and enough earnings to pay back, they align. ready ready ready heard on notice these contract, well, he says the content is the same every year. only the name of the tie company changes. how can my where i had to move

them even do it, but at heat in your mind that the penal mckay a bit funny. dan low, come get leggett lou, and yeah, right down and, oh, by he and, but he no money. i've been delighted. i'll tell you that you call him and patty like, you know, might come next we go to make the village cheap. terrible. he's a local success story. after working in sweden summer off to summer, had a bond saved enough money to buy a tractor, a car, and some land. he and his wife now work in the fields once again. but this time it's their own land. oh, good. when you called me he who called to become to ricky, don't you and make one look. they caught hi unique a lot. lincoln pm to improve. i want to buy the um launch and mach top that i hi.

you will need a market model. now. yes. if in fact the, if you could call me back, i am not out googled de la debit. yep. when am i threw me down? when i 9, you got blank wondering how much you knew. he who hm. l will hold. hold on. can you allow up a time to get a loan and i can get all your new wife a pair upon success has inspired many villages to make the 8000 kilometer journey to sweden where hard work can earn the more money than i can make here. shang has spent his life working on local rice and sugar farms. but now for the 1st time he wants to try his luck abroad and canny economy and kept them left. she with equities, it's a p, a compliment danina about ben lamb cut high. so through laken hat yet by the calendar yet long, they have them fertilizing sugar cane by hand is a tough job and an uncertain one. chang only finds out each morning if

you'll have work that day. mommy, mommy and i love him with tony that hill you'll want battle you a good day, but it hung happen that don't rob, not letting who are lacking giplin filiette for gale. countless. yoko seneca calculate that will have hey, monica long, that's it. i pay london. i yes, yes, yes, but so they have when things go well, he can earn around $350.00 a month from his work you. it's enough to survive, but not much. health chang lives with his family in this house. the top floor is uninhabitable, as the wood walls have been eaten away by term on the family is forced to live on

the ground floor without much protection or privacy. t, i literally get sound by them. like i thought then send them cat as i call they like hello like me to and i had left alia. oh, yeah, it's the not yet. c a t lane. yeah. oh they meet, he come, i can man he and his wife lick have worked hard to pay for him to go to sweden every afternoon. they sell chicken about my saving up to pay a deposit for the trip. they borrowed the rest of the money from the employment agency bank vehicle what i bang my yeah. yeah. good lord, i been cotton go me. p die. go me mad. i voting yoga. oh cool. no you want. they want a base, a future for themselves,

and their daughter will their dream come true? shining says the only thing he hasn't had to pay for is these t shirt from the top company that hired in. the broad color is intended to prevent him from being short accidentally by swedish hunters. made a let the little okay. band to pin. put me put your name. well, i'm mikey. here. my low ticket guy. my last time. let me know when that to get ya bang. and we're looking at mila lake. i make up. we took on woodman, kind of make it in the middle about what me me me a lady, i get it. go cool um and then ah udo and his wife. why live a?

making the final preparations for their trip off she is accompanying her husband for the 11th a mouth. open to one who know me . oh, oh nik i'm fit they prefer to use their own supplies and their own spices and herbs. for me, pete, get born. we go, wow, that though, mean all my and my hand, no my know low. hm. level level one sad. not like enough all color have make in go me guy. me him with a new model when even lemons with our, my loan, but he lo and my loan, the logo leak on black. mm hm. why they

have high hopes. they're aiming to earn around $3000.00 each. but it's a gamble. for me, no one knows whether the season will be a productive one or not. i the way they've got 2 months to collect as many berries with ah ha, fly across the world. ah, from thailand's haitian humidity lie sweden's dense forests. in this endless expanse, thousands of tides of working, plucking the wild berries the groves. it's the middle of the picking season. and we're here to catch up with chang, pie, lynn,

and poodle. we find shang in the town of soda, home, around 3 hours drive from the capital stall. it's evening. he and the other workers have just returned from the forest, but the berries they gather. he looks exhausted. the fag alaina hoot that i live to evelyn. with sam, have he moved? i move a lot need now little help when filled up with me yet. okay. let me have you again . ah, but he is working day is far from either. he has to wait the harvest. every berry cow. each kilogram earns him around $2.60.

ma'am. nathan with amanda killeen, i mean, i think i can let me go ask, susan runs the local berry, picking company for the last 2 years is hired mainly 5 seasonal workers. can come your avenue, yoga for you to pull up, ask free you gum. and nick, over in she had the day love you were going on with the heat, the financing on that awful, some advil to go approach. got thailand, but i also looked at but yeah, the bottom from your but, but all cool nic teeth would fit some be a appeared in theory. the pickets had a contract which guarantees a minimum wage of $2400.00 for the season. but in reality,

the pay per kilo of berries $38.00, you know, x also tells us that this is what the work is prefer. not because they have the chance to earn more money. and he says, that's why they work monday than 8 hours a day. you also can check that to you, the mother on the mortgage loan comment to balk mental cannot go forward. i had and then we got them. good on that. i thought. good. so then when you, shan likes dropping. not so your can you in the him that i don't for the polk county? my extension. i don't been shana family deductible. when the kids they get to school, they get the support also control to earn more than $2400.00. chang has to peak at least 36 kilos a day. to day he's only peaked, 33. it's not a good hall. next

morning he begins early up at 4 i and he and his group drive for up to 200 kilometers. jewel board and accommodation cost him $30.00 a day that's on top of the line. he took out in thailand with on reaching the forest. the work is quickly separate. they work alone for hours without a break. chang is learning as he goes blah, blah blah with quote, glad to help with glut, cadillac matter lip them to t my level had hello, got mega looking like i don't your t tell us how that look up at iep and 80 t p at debit. well, when paddling get caught up at the man,

he's bucket fills up very slowly whether he finds a lot of berries comes down to chance. now gall getting up with him again. hello, lockwood. thank yes ma'am. for manuel can man at that the deadline. yet. what had mikaela got the lid then den dental club lay hat, pump cabinet. i've got them yet. can't. in the plight of thorn workers like chang is of special interest to this man. mat swing book is a swedish journalist. we investigate labor conditions in the berry industry. he's concerned at the increasing number of tie pickers working with some food at this site. us about about lip, lip, them about something very little. it still would a skill or limone. please gather some folk at the box to tie lum, or in thoughtful,

putting out in the quality of toyota taylor matthew scott. there broke garrison for cut the box to tie long or corn schools dot com at the boca, we showed you the contract of the work is we following. when bog says the great minimum wage is an improvement, but the ties have still had to take out large loans in order to come to sweden. all because her mom had it for more, another robot and more with all at the bosco and then okay, i'm one of the comments on paying out there for the talk to me. a call at both chang has been in sweden football ways. he's still working to pay off his line. every day he feels further from his dream of burning good money. shank holds his wife. he doesn't

want her to worry about you and his daughter is on the line too early. she wants to know if he's collected a lot of berries. what are your mean where you will meet them? will hit meeting with him then when you're not the one with madame de landman. complaint 10 minutes, let me get the electrical card ending. and then he said, i can send me a call a day here at 9 o'clock. okay. well, need me, how can i make on the copied ronald? ah,

we leave chang to continue his work and head 3rd, the north, close to the arctic circle. we had to see hi lynn and udo. they've sent us the gps coordinates for amazing port. it's a parking areas somewhere in swedish slat flatten. with a great to make at 6, i am the next morning. the area is a ski region. it's july and the middle of summer, but it's only 7 degrees celsius. tarika on piling and on. tell us that where they're working is a 4 hour drive from the recommendation. let me send me within

one to 5 and then on in may dampen my mother. have give me the will. maybe your bank is galico book lamp. and melinda. ah, hacking on. yeah. couple more money than we'll talk here for month. that'll help i need, i know that kind of company looks like a lot of all white off. i need that or for yeah, the card i didn't qualify that income. they have to travel far because there are very few berries near where they're staying to make the long drive worth it. they spend every 2nd night outdoors. the weather is wet and uncomfortable, but a particularly rare and sought after berry is meant to grow here. oh oh, he's the low low get my low my my little a little get money later. one me on my love. good bye,

bye delay. good novi like eagle cold. me know really important. and for many i'm for like our w mcleana. well, with money by not blow me on the, on the day begins as it does every morning with a long march on foot into the forest. food on doesn't want to risk relying on his bone at here every 100 measures. he marks the way back to the road. we laid out. hum, buy pull the mind. i go. tell me when de la car nick, i'm not a problem. my name when i put em,

i said move up on your like on kid, by all my time, i am on a mountain language. their hunting for the red cloud. berry extremely hot to cultivate. they grow wild in the arctic regions of scandinavia, golden, yellow and color, and similar to raspberries, they can earn almost $13.00 per keela. piling has found a good spot. busy but she has to pick them quickly before the others come. every member of the group is working for themselves. oh well, he fell on what, what was a lot more backpack on? no one, not while. while, while he had one me one guy living member number or not, when i look on my find a made up on the now and i think on fine despite today's good harvest, piling an alarm are almost out of time in just

a few days. the season will be over. well, i keep going to wendy like a concur linen if the wintertime may, may i present my, the phony goddamn yet themself. i tell you, coming back, i have spent 2 months looking for clabbered. but it's been a bad year, after paying off all their debts, they will each make $1400.00. less than half they go on keeping $11.00 know quite them on monday america i from one love then liaison when families of been feeling. lona: he did not find his i finally am matthau oliver and chang. this was his 1st summer in sweden.

he wasn't the fastest, but he's group of shed the money from the berries between them. after 2 and a half months he won't be going home empty handed. he still left. busy with $1500.00, after deducting all expenses and costs. how hello co park at little monk. dad, thank you. like a medical god meant to so diana. oh glad you. but i will be named when do i later? hello. then for so can you, would he do hagler? can't i'm not who can you make on that? benet? mm hm. only migrant laborers out willing to enjoy such condition and for such make up time. but ty, workers will continue to come to swain and to hunt the fruits of the forest

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