our 2 part. starts june 21st on d w. this is d w news live from berlin still fighting slavery after 100 years as the international labor organization marks its centenary we look at its efforts to bring dignity to work and how the drive for the lowest possible cost can lead to harsh conditions and exploitation. also coming up the tourist boat that sank in budapest is raised from the river down to 4 more bodies have been recovered after the worst disaster on the river and half

a century. plus day 4 of the women's world cup gives fans a 1st look at the united states team after neighbors and rivals canada survived a scare from cameroon to get their tournaments off to a winning start. i'm swimming so much gone that it's good to have you with us we start with the future of work technology automation and globalization have already affected how most of us work disrupting existing patterns for both better and for worse now these shifts are being compared to the industrial revolution they're also the focus of the international labor organization or i l o conference this week marking the organization's 100th birthday now the main topics at this conference include a future without child labor also using a technology to guarantee decent work. and also ending up modern slavery which the

ilo says affects some 25000000 people globally let's take a look now at the situation in just one country out of many that are rapidly industrializing cambodia produces many of the clothes that people buy in the developed world but the drive to make goods at the lowest possible price can need harsh. work starvation wages and fainting from exhaustion the. years the minimum wage has increased to about $160.00 euros per month that's barely enough to live on in cambodia what many. labor protection laws are often not enforced 2 hours overtime is officially allowed but 4 hours is practically standard most women workers only have temporary work contracts they constantly worry about losing their job or the companies keep them powerless. facemasks and other

protective gear are now standard in nearly half of companies here some clothing brands pay external consultants to inform women up their rights but higher wages and more social benefits put textile companies under pressure. the major brands buying agency compare prices worldwide they were contracts of the countries that charge the lowest price that's how it eases i cannot say if that's right or wrong. international labor organization saying that despite the progress that's been made cambodia is still one of the 10 worst countries in the world for workers well let's talk more about this story with marty aloose vega she's a cord nater of the aisle 0 future of work initiative and she joins us from geneva where the conference is taking place right now thank you so much for joining us we just heard an example saw an example of how workers are being exploited how big of a problem is this and what is being done to address it. well we have been doing for

over the ascent to the many things to address these problems because it's like i say this is a ghost and say no we're like we are we are fighting put this up so yes it's not we have i think that they fit in with it but it means not the lives that all these embryos which actually implemented it in countries but also with a general discussion and we can take english just about normative section of hospitals if you will to really implement new loaves and orcus because our main. purpose our main aim. to provide one of the living conditions on our. site giving the needed workers ok dignity to work as the key there and your organization as you're saying is doing a lot to address the problem but how is it still that 100 years after the ilo was founded we're still seeing such large numbers of people working under such difficult conditions sometimes amounting to forced labor. this is the question i

would have if we have been revising and we are thinking these days i would have been thinking for the last 5 years what is possible then even though we have a lot of progress we have progress in terms of economic development also in terms of technology the logic of that bans the baltics is still there many countries that are not in survive and so that a good economy and we are trying to see what is possible and i think is part of it polices national policies and also in part of they need to read to try to look for new solutions to new ideas and to really do much more slowly than the among nations and also. in monk people in general let's say we need to increase these values we need to restart the sense these values to really rebuild their lives what these these social contract that he said they already also all of i wouldn't want or

states moneyless i want to ask you because you mentioned that technological change and another big issue is how technology is changing the workplace before we talk about it let's take a look at some recent developments. these could be the eyes of the future intelligent robots that work independently capable of undertaking inspections of things like cables and wiring. and in future drones like this could be the solution when it comes to checking and repairing high up hard to reach parts of buildings this one is even able to drill if needed. scientists at the institute for robotics and intelligent systems at the swiss federal institute of technology in zurich are developing robots with the potential to transform work as we know it some are aimed at taking on arduous tasks in the construction sector. mentioned. to be far more intensely

involved in farming for example today we have such things as holidays machines help make us more efficient to give us more leisure time. but unions say that's not necessarily a cause for celebration and it's a. technology is everywhere right now and that's why the processes of change is so rapid at the moment some people might be unsettled by that but generally i'm optimistic that there will be enough work the question is whether it will be properly paid will it be properly regulated so that our working lives will also remain satisfying. new technologies can often new opportunities but regulation will be key to ensure humankind doesn't get left behind. so much looking at that report there you know if we're seeing more automation and technology we're placing a lot of the jobs that we see in the current workplace while governments have to

guarantee jobs and guarantee income in the future what will work look like in the future. the words we are not sure of how the world will lose but we are sure these should be still human work is changing but the humans should be command and this is important this debate was told many years ago centuries ago when they were an email to help in the humans now are the machines and the machine should be at the service of the human being how we can ensure the war i think the concept of full employment is not anymore to concept and we know like 40 years ago or 50 years ago we have to give that in sense they are all that about you and me to be don't see other people still want a war because it's much more. ordinary mean it's a neat morning human expression but what we need to be sure is everyone everyone has the sense of conditions are right many want to make a court matter of the aiello future of work and initiative will have to leave it

there thank you so much for sharing your insights with us and thank you very much. now botswana's high court has overturned a colonial era law criminalizing gay sex the court said the law should not regulate private acts between consenting adults and that penalizing people for who they are is disrespectful judges unanimously rejected sections of the penal code that made same sex relations illegal a ruling comes less than a month after kenya's high court upheld a similar sections of its penal code. many businesses in hong kong have vowed to shut down on wednesday in a show of solidarity with the movement protesting against a controversial bill seeking to allow extraditions to china hong kong was rocked by a huge rally on sunday with vast crowds calling on the city leadership to scrap the legislation opponents fear that the proposed law could undermine hong kong's autonomy for mainland china activism groups have called for more protests and

strikes tomorrow when the bill is expected to be approved by the city's legislative council. cherry chan is our reporter from hong kong and she's here with us in our studio to tell us more about this story cherry thanks for joining us put this into context for us we're seeing huge numbers of people take to the streets and businesses in hong kong also supporting them how significant is this what are we looking at here so as you say more protests planned for tomorrow and actually people in different sectors they said they will go on strike tomorrow night teachers students and shops and restaurants they said they will close for one day and economics but stability in hong kong is very important and people would always try to of and if they stuck to economy as possible but then this time they also have bed this is the most important thing that they have to do and they would do it at all costs to stop the law all right so it sounds like there's a lot of momentum behind this movement but will it actually make

a difference in stopping this law from going forth yeah actually this is a question that many people are trying not to us this time because. in 2014 there was a huge protests and after 75 days of demonstrations nothing concrete really came out and by then many people were saying that maybe this is not worth it to spend so much time and money for something that's not going to change anything but then this time people are saying that they just want to do what they think is right regardless of the outcome so regardless of the outcome they want to show their presence and make sure that their voices are heard give us an idea of why people are out on the streets why are people so defiant you know about this law what is it that they really fear happening here and so people really have trust in chinese government and if this law is passed many people are saying that china will use this as a tool to pursue political opponents and. because of their previous case of kidnappings and actions they really fear there will be abused and also.

so they fear the law will be abuse only chinese system and they have fear that they will lose the freedom of speech they enjoying and compared to other cities in china hong kong enjoy relatively high feet of speech so this law will mean that it's a blow to the freedom that people in hong kong enjoy and what can we expect if we're going to see more protests tomorrow to see another huge crowd take to the streets. so for the thousands of people have already agreed that they will go on these protests and people who cannot attend a protest they said they will go on strike and so i think this is a very strong reaction that we're seeing here all right our reporter to reach and with us here in the studio thanks so much for your insight. now to some other stories making headlines around the world amazon has moved past high tech titans apple and google to become the world's most valuable brand now the value of the

e-commerce giants brand surged by 52 percent to $315000000000.00 according to market research agency can tar that leaves apple one second place and last year's top end google in 3rd canada set to ban single use plastic starting in 2021 prime minister justin trudeau declared the initiative a global challenge to phase out the plastic bag straws and cloud cutlery clogging the world's oceans single use items that account for around 70 percent of the cost of waste in the marine environment. and opposition leaders in haiti launched a 2 day strike on monday that paralyzed the country's capital amid another day of protests demanding that president of the now moyes they resign over corruption allegations schools businesses and government offices were shuttered as demonstrators blocked roads and set tires ablaze across border prints. salvage crews from the hungary and capital budapest have recovered several bodies from the

wreckage of a tour boat that sank in the danube river last month in a careful operation that lasted more than 6 hours rescue workers raised the whole of the vessel which capsized after colliding with a large cruise ship the accident has claimed at least $24.00 lives making it the worst disaster to occur on the danube in half a century. correspondent stefan both is in the hungary and capital covering the story for us is at the scene of a salvage operation has been taking place 7 remind us again how this accident actually took place what happened. well it actually happened to step on may 29th smoltz who are boat. ramps by a huge ship and. seconds. sank here behind me and basically it man's debts 28 people died and 7 people were rescued. mosul to victims have now being discovered

today a day found behind me a small girl 6 years old and her motor and apparently also the captain and another victim and they are still searching for more victims at this hour what i can tell you is steady operation was very difficult in fact so hard that one of the rescue workers even fell overboard and he had to be rescued himself lifeless spared but it is in discord the difficulties they have here with this whole operation today and indeed this is the worst tragedy for hungary only your bravery in 75 years 7 bring us up to date on the investigation into what happened and who might be responsible . well what if don't now he's day have to change the ukrainian captain 64 year old captain and he has the night any wrong doing they say the captain of a much larger ship was recklessly to haiti it was responsible

for these huge accident that's what's so me that's a gator say oliver dairies also some c.d.o. food which suggests that actually small boat went into deposits that much larger ship but of course we cannot ask the captain of that boat because he has died as well now we also know depths a much larger ship is in hungary again to be in this to gauge it by. police and prosecutors because they really want to know what that happens in this accident and how to prevent it that's of course in order issue as well all right correspondent stefan both reporting there in budapest thank you now europe's social democrats meet in brussels this week for the 1st time since the main established parties lost their majorities in recent parliamentary elections the movement has traditionally

represented blue collar workers but with those kinds of jobs dwindling and european societies diversifying the socialists and democrats as they call themselves in the european parliament are trying to figure out how they can sit in to this shifting political landscape now they emerge from the elections as the 2nd largest bloc with $153.00 seats that's around $31.00 fewer seats than before and most of the losses came in germany and in italy the social democratic vote did hold up in denmark spain and also in the netherlands in recent elections but still the losses overwhelm the games leaving social democrats wondering where to go from here. the social democrats used to be the people's party now that the crisis party its demise appears to be unstoppable with one catastrophe hot on the heels of the other last weeks or another party member step down this time and their knowledge is he resigned from her post as head of the s.p.d. they are going to start i've just taken my leave from the s.p.d.

party executive. i've resigned. she's the 1st woman to leave the s.p.d. party executive after just over a year in office previous as a modern shield didn't even last the full year. the social democrat party appears to be a sinking ship with rotating leaders at the helm and popular approval ratings on a downward spiral. in the post-war era the s.p.d. star was on the ascent and by 972 it was germany strongest party in 1980 had scored a became chancellor and the party went into freefall. political scientist or norgate power has been documenting the history of the social democrats for decades . it is kind of folks but the s.p.d. is no longer a broad based party and it hasn't been one for a long time you can see from election results that the party still garners votes

but not to the extent where you can say it's proof that the s.p.d. is represented in all the relevant groups of society. the s.p.d. germany's oldest political party was born over 150 years ago in times of harsh working conditions and massive social inequity. after coming to power in 1933 i don't hit so to push through the so-called enabling act but was fooled by the surreal democrats shortly afterwards the party was outlawed party loyalists were persecuted taken to concentration camps and killed. after the 2nd world war the s.p.d. reestablished itself to become the leading opposition voice to the conservatives. 3 social democrat leaders were crowned chancellor plant how much mitt and get. at the moment i don't see any prospect of an s.p.d.

chancellor because there is no one there and because the s.p.d. is not in a condition where it can win elections and then former leader government and few. months it was very blunt to set the course for the social democrat success today the party looks like a disoriented conflict as and one out version of the proud people's party it once used to be. let's bring in our political correspondent who's been looking into the story for us give us an idea of why voters are turning away from social democratic parties across europe what is happening here of us a clear loss of confidence of the voters parties including the social democrats 1st this loss of confidence. the politicians themselves as if themselves as it's clear to decay in fresh. as for example where a social democracy was in power was hostile and then which dramatically collapsed afterwards and the 2nd point is that for

a lot of voters they were left unsatisfied because there were too much there was too much compromise made by social democracies to get into government and german germany in that regard is a case study of a left leaning party veering towards a center right so as to enter a government we see currently in germany with the america and so-called grand coalition between the conservatives and social democrats of those 2 factors explain why voters left unsatisfied just voting a photo social democrats and if you take for example denmark we mentioned it earlier social democrats there are viewing even further right and they adopt a really hard line on immigration for example and combine it with a welfare left wing policies and that's actually managed to keep the voters interested in a social democracy in social democracies but that's not the case interest in the rest of europe sure you know there's not

a new trend per se we see this happening now for a few years so what are social democratic parties doing to fix the problem and why doesn't it seem to be working in many countries like germany for example that if you think to many there's definitely a lot of soul searching going on at the moment so for the social democrats to find a new leader they're trying to veer to kountry the party so it towards left leaning policies once again to regained core electorate that they have lost but it's a bit to no avail because those elected this electorate has already been one over by populism by both this parties and by degrees which have fed the latest poll i think was last week was the green fairing at 27 percent of the voters in. pensions and that's as much as the conservatives and indeed mean time to social democrats hit a historical. intention so what are the hopes then for the social democrats to regain

voters in europe there is a glimpse of hope if you look at portugal or spain for example in portugal since 2015 day it has been a government led by the social democrats that don't have enough sort of majority of it have been quite successful in ruling adik country and actually the spanish democratic social democratic party fed me they were at the last elections in april and they would be m.p.'s that would bring the biggest national contingent into the european parliament all right our political reporter in manila shows with us here in our studio talking about social democrats across europe thank you so much for your analysis. now to sports and some of the favorites at the women's world cup have stuttered some have stumbled over the 1st 3 days but they 4 of the tournament gives fans a 1st look at the most dominant force of the last 2 decades the team from the u.s. the americans are defending champions and acutely aware that 2100 could be their

toughest test yet. the record world champions usa title defense this summer in france might prove more difficult than ever before. i think it's going to be a remarkable world cup i think the the level of competition 4 years on from the last one has exponentially increased the different teams now rising and it's going to be a very open world cup and we're excited to go out there and attack it. but a challenge doesn't daunt the country with nearly half the world's total registered female youth players and things to america's solid infrastructure of club and college level football coach joe ellis has had a vast pool of players to recruit from over the past 4 years her friends bound squad has a balanced mix of experience veterans and young talents. like 21 year old super sub mallory pugh she for one college football to play professionally. alongside her role models i was talking to alex like

a week ago and she was like whatever role that you're like given just like play i play it the best that you can that's super important because like we need all $23.00 players to try and win the world cup for the team star alex morgan it'll be her 3rd time playing on the world's biggest stage in 2015 she was coming off an injury but this year she's expected to perform better very. we're just trying to take it one game out of time and we're not focusing on the fact that we're looking to defend anything we're definitely looking to come out with a win but in no way is about a repeat or anything like that but repeated they might well attended and decisive wins in their preparation games indicate that the usa might continue dominating women's soccer well into the future yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah. our other minor now of our top stories here on d. w.

the international labor organization is marking its 1st 100 years but while globalization and technology are creating new opportunities 25000000 people worldwide work in conditions that amount to little more than forced labor. in the tourist boat that sank in budapest has been raised from the river danube for more bodies have been recovered after the worst disaster on the river in half a century. don't forget you can always get your news on the go download or out from google play or from the app store and that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as far less push notifications for any breaking news and you can also use the you that you have to send us your photos and your videos. coming up next. indeed of your special documentary looking at how difficult it is to find a place to live in european cities as prices go up and the number of apartments go down we go house hunting in amsterdam that in just

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