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online. business news coming to you live from berlin who can save the iran's nuclear deal german foreign minister secures a promise that iran will work with the e.u. to salvage it but he leaves tehran talking about the difficulties on all sides also coming up still fighting slavery after a 100 years as the international labor organization marks at centennial we look at how forced labor still exists today and at the i.l.o.'s efforts to bring dignity to work. plus divers recover more bodies from
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a tourist boat that sank in budapest the accident at the end of may was the worst disaster on the river danube in half a century. hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us international efforts are intensifying to save the 2015 agreement that sought to limit iran's nuclear ambitions that deal has been under threat since u.s. thought president donald trump pulled the u.s. out of it in an effort to keep the deal alive german foreign minister heiko mosse traveled to tehran at the beginning of this week there were signs of encouragement during bilateral talks with iran's foreign minister saying his country will work with the european union but must left tehran talking about difficulties on all sides. arriving in tehran to push for deescalation facing. swer
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multiple entangled crises all centering on iran economic sanctions a nuclear deal in disarray and rising tensions with the u.s. has welcomed by iran's foreign minister mohammad serif talks went over time afterwards spoke repeatedly of war. even new tension in our region as a result of the economic war the united states declared against iran. that the only way to decrease tensions in the region is to stop the economic war. one cannot expect an economic war to continue against the iranian people and but those waging this war and those supporting it remain say. responded continuing the references to war week there is war in syria and in yemen fortunately not here. and i want to do everything we can to keep it that way but nevertheless the tensions here in the region are worrying what
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a contrast to the optimism of 2015 when iran agreed to limit its nuclear ambitions in the lead mark deal in return international sanctions on iran would be lifted i'll put under president donald trump the u.s. pulled out of the treaty and reimposed sanctions which have been crippling iran's economy the u.s. has also sent warships to the middle east part of a pressure campaign that some fear risks escalating into open conflict now asked about rescuing what's left of the deal had this to offer. we won't work any miracles but we'll do everything in our power to prevent failure. iran has already said it will resume and rich in your a medium if sanctions are not eased by july 7th at that point the nuclear deal would be all but history. or more of the story we're joined by the very own money well thanks for being with us this morning german foreign minister he went to
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tehran hoping to sell the edge the nuclear deal but did he have really anything to offer the iranians other than encouraging words well germany is seen as the strongest mediator between iran and its remaining partners in the deal in the e.u. partners and since 2015 germany had worked very hard along with france and britain for tehran to get the promised economy benefits out of there do you and so i would say there's more done good we ought to remain remaining from the remaining partners of the de france britain and germany is not just optimism because it could also lead to a further talks with the us to was eventually when you do you should occur and do you not survive the tensions and also german foreign minister. we saw the u.s. it would be difficult to have iran coming clean but he's still trying trying well iran's foreign minister in that press conference he warned that those waging
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economic war against his country could not expect to quote remain safe what do you make of that statement well it's not. of a threat. because say the u.s. has deployed its military in these to increase the pressure on terror and terror and has responded by saying that well if that's the road that the u.s. want to take well they're ready for it's so that goes on to show that iran is very clear about what he wants don't become extensions no pressure no. anita pressure but the threat is there and that could actually make the comfy. quickly too out demeter least and bring out the confrontation that none of the european partners of iran want to see ok nobody will particularly the europeans perhaps but others in the region as well nobody really wants the award to see a war there but if the e.u. can't counterbalance the impact of the sanctions from the u.s.
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on iran why is iran even talking to the well german foreign minister who commands was adamant that he really wanted to ask the escalate the tensions in the persian gulf but for iran it is important to keep the talks going because of the economy it interests it has to do opinion and because it showed good will ever since 2015 before donald trump pulled out of agreement iran had complied with a prerequisite for the economy the economy expects us to they have to at least according to the un observatory monitoring its nuclear activities so it just wants to ensure that it will have. its economic interests defended the middle thank you so much t w political correspondent well shots thank you. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today amazon has moved past high tech titans apple and google to become the world's most valuable brand
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the value of the e-commerce giant's brand surged by 52 percent to $315000000000.00 according to market research agency can time this leaves apple in 2nd place and last year's top brand google in 3rd. canada is set to ban single use plastics beginning in 2021 prime minister justin trudeau declared the initiative a global challenge to phase out the plastic bags straws and cutlery clogging the world's oceans single use items account for about 70 percent of the plastic waste in the marine environment. opposition leaders in haiti launched a 2 day strike on monday that paralyzed the country's capital amid another day of protests demanding president joe movies resign over corruption allegations schools businesses and government offices were shuttered as demonstrators blocked roads and set tires ablaze across for 2 prints. the international labor
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organization the aisle though is celebrating its 100th birthday current transformations in the world of work are being compared to the industrial revolution globalization and technology are creating new opportunities but also disrupting existing work patterns automation will make many jobs obsolete but the aisle has identified key sectors that are likely to generate the jobs of the future and those sectors include the green economy the care economy and the so-called gager economy which is a focus on short term and freelance work rather than permanent jobs the main topics at the sin 10 are a conference include a future without child labor using technological pathway. is towards decent work and in doing modern slavery which the ilo says affects some $25000000.00 people globally in indonesia for example lured by the prospect of
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a steady job many opt to work at sea but with the labor conditions difficult to assess in international waters conditions on board often fail to live up to expectations. a steady job with a good salary and a lucrative bonus that's the promise that tempts many indonesian men to leave their high end and help to see but what they get is this is about are more than 30 actually spy the indonesian seafarers movement says crew members sleeping on the floor in the cargo hold looking malnourished and exhausted one of them is run matula he says he was tricked by an indonesian recruiting agency traffic to somalia and forced to spend 9 months aboard a chinese fishing boat manning nets and packing fish for 18 hours a day. some
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. bonding when we didn't catch enough fish or squid we will be eaten by the captain. diversity we will be eating a lot i'm still traumatized by it but i was. on board the creek claim they were given a choice between going hungry and eating spoiled fish and they didn't even have clean water going on with. the layout i think i'm on the rare occasion we were given fish we could tell by the smell that the fish was already bad after smelling it we couldn't eat it in a daily basis all we got was cabbage and rice with a little salt. and we drank pronunciation of water that we collected from the air conditioner done what i would. run a tool and as cremates are now back home and they've taken photos and videos to
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document their experience experts say the fishing industry is riddled with forced labor and it predominantly targets poor workers from southeast asia and. once on board there's no way out for the men and they often mercilessly exploited. and as cremates say they're owed thousands of dollars in unpaid wages. were going to go while i work there are away from my family so they could be proud of me when i returned home but the reality was different our company when i asked the recruitment company for our rights they said you're a stupid idiot we just want to ask for our rights after working for 7 months when about how many. numerous n.g.o.s both local and international have run the alarm about the slave like conditions that seem to be commonplace on fishing vessels across the globe but it hasn't stopped men like these from falling into the hands
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of traffickers. indonesia's ministry of manpower is among other things with the protection of its weapons that brought the department head acknowledges the problem but says it's difficult to monitor labor conditions at sea. to study 1st whether the information about the abused seafarers is true or not. rely on time facts so we can enforce sanctions lawfully. bought as around a tool and his full mccree might snow in fact difficult to attain when you're at sea with no one watching. in the local government. now to hungary where selvage crews have recovered more remains human remains from a tour boat that sank in budapest last month rescue workers were seen carrying body bags out of the hole this as crews raise the wreckage of the sightseeing boat that
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capsized and sank on may 29th after it collided with a bigger vessel 20 people have so far been confirmed dead in the worst disaster on the danube in half a century 8 others are still listed as missing. correspondent stuff on both is in the hungary in capital he's at the scene where that salvage operation is underway in budapest and joins us now from there stefan we're talking about the worst disaster in the danube in half a century remind us again how it happened. well it happens in indiana jones last month when a large share shift really ramped into the marmot boat which has been more or less lifted here behind me and i can tell you it is an extremely difficult operation already for one and a health week south korean diverse and hungry and diverse we're trying to get to this day but it was very difficult only very very recently they bring this slow
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crane behind me and or really start at the open ration now this morning day were also lifting already several human remains including the captain it's my understanding but of course it remains very very difficult in total at least $28.00 people died in what you rightly pointed out was the worst accident actually in 75 years here in hungary tell us why it has taken so long to lift this boat. well it's also extremely difficult to lift about 8 parts because the currents off the danube river one of europe's main waterways was very fast also the boat was about 9 meters under water this ability for die 1st was basically 0 and that made it old very very difficult. so fun thank you very much correspondent stephanie posts there in budapest. you're watching t.v.
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