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this weekend on g.w. . this is the w. news live from berlin a warning from the u.n. that millions of children are driscoll being put to work we report on how many families are resorting to child labor to put food on the table during the global health emergency. and standoff in seattle activists declaring a thomas police free zone president donald trump calls the protesters terrorists
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and threatens to send in the military to clear them away. also britain braces for more and to racism protests spot for the killing of george floyd sorties fear of people here on rest which has seen attacks on monuments to the you crazy imperial past. and video comes under fire after closing the account of a prominent chinese pro-democracy groups critics accuse the tech company of giving in to beijing we talked to the activist at the center of the controversy. i'm going to go 1st well come to the program the united nations is warning that millions of children are too risk of being pushed into underage labor by the global health emergency extreme poverty made worse by economic shutdowns in many countries means that all too many children are undertaking dangerous explosive work to
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support their families the situation is especially die in the central african republic the overwhelming majority of the population lives on less than a dollar a day. what of that day that we still live in years old and is a waiter in this restaurant in benghazi the capital of the central african republic that we and his mother fled the war in bunbury in 3 d. 17 he works here for 9 hours a day every day for a salary of just $355.00 c.f.a. that's a little less than you were a day after my father was killed my mother is very ill. i go out to get money so we can buy medicine for my mother so we can treat her and so that we can buy food for us selves. according to the lookout enjoy up on some front here there are more than 600000 children in distress all over the country following the conflicts says 2013 however like many of these children that with the situation
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remains problematic they find i love our country is a poor there's no one to help this child we're teaching him how to earn money so he can take care of himself in future if we leave him stranded rebels could come and persuade him to join their ranks to earn some money that's why we're helping him earn money i don't find anything wrong in that. and if i make a flight with. marital bliss couple in head of a local n.g.o.s making an awareness raising and community communication campaign a priority market and want to get to moscow i understand you want to help him get some study material but he's too young and his future would be better if he gets to school i'm not here to make it because in this neighborhood many under aged children who cannot be looked after by their own families are taken advantage of by businesspeople. condemns child labor you also there is a lack of awareness among recruiters do so used to denote idea doing damage is
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trivial will be in these little boys or school age we make a commitment to follow this child on to we can remove him and get him to school. the central african republic has one of the highest rates of child level in the world the situation is precarious and is linked to 3 countries is the ability nobody less child protection organizations are trying to address all forms of child abuse in the country. that's more about this was sophie to conning she's the director of the international labor organization office in rb john that's a port city and ivory coast sophie africa has the highest number of child victims worldwide and i was quite shocked to learn earlier that the incredible 72000000 children in across africa are in employment why is the number so staggeringly high . 72000000 children across africa and that is one child in
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5 age 5 to 17 in africa it is very high there are reasons and. this is linked of course to poverty and. that the story of the boy in central africa republic perfectly illustrates the complexity of the factors that are. creating child poverty is the lack of access to education to create you creation in the case of central africa education is free and compulsory on paper but in practice many children out of school the lack of access to social protection again the story of the child in central africa shows that he's not his mother is sick. there's no health care there's no safety net and the only possibility for the child to start working the lack of a warning is a. very well illustrated mentary lack of encroaching on course and on the low
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because the majority of. workers in africa are in the form an economy where there's a very. it's. the majority of children in africa are also working in the agricultural sector. more than 85 percent and this is paid family work the most. for the most so very difficult to enforce the nation. in ivory coast for example a gauge in the hospital including the harvesting of cocoa and coffee what is so is so so so so hama's and beyond what so it's about it. what this has it is a maverick culture in general i would say. for the 1st work can be hazardous by nature or by the circumstances in which it is being done. i would say that this work in agriculture is due to the exposure to chemicals chemical as to science and
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so do you. and dangerous tools it is due to not ours explosion in. ivory coast but also across africa the thing that governments are doing enough to stop child labor. i would say in africa at the rate of ratification of the ilo conventions on china is very high the problem is of course in the education of these conventions a large number of governments have also where that there's an issue are taking measures to address it has elaborated national action plans to mean a child labor. but of course it's a very complex problem it can only be addressed if you address issues of lack of access to education and poor social protection coverage. and deeply
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entrenched notional norms so i would say that it's really in the optic ation that those measures that. it's becoming really challenging so the lot is being done and i would like to mention also that the african union has adopted. a continental action. for the 1st time that the. soviet economy that thank you very much for this thank you. us president of trump is frightening to send in the military to drive out until racism protesters have declared a police free zone and the city of seattle america has been gripped by often violent on rest since the death of george floyd he died in police custody in minneapolis last month the action in seattle so far i'm a peaceful as the mayor says it will be unconstitutional and illegal for donald
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trump to intervene. that calling it the capitol hill autonomous zone in seattle streets remade into a protest camp. was there has been speeches concepts and film screenings volunteer medics are on hand and restaurants have donated food and a memorial pays tribute to george floyd and other black victims of police brutality this is why the protesters are here. i was i said to see that everybody you know out here cares about you your life your value the inspired the things together it is a work life on many years and now it's where were you i want to i want to know that i want to know what the ice was here i was here for this was able to see what this is actually do the area surrounds the east precinct police station a flashpoint in demonstration since freud's death police have banded the station on
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monday with city officials citing the need to reduce tension protesters repurposed barricades to create what they call a police freezone one of their key demands is the dismantling of the police department using its budget to fund community services their actions have drawn the eye of the u.s. president who's issued several furious tweets in an interview with fox news is harris faulkner he threatens to use force if we have to. do that to go. to. these people and not. a major portion of the great city but seattle's mayor hit back telling trump go back to your bunker she also warned it would be illegal to send in the military. one of the things this president will never understand is that listening to community is not a weakness it is
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a strength. but jenny durkan a democrat is also a target of protesters anger hundreds called for her to resign as they packed into city hall on wednesday to demand police reform they were furious that her promise of a moratorium on tear gas was broken by police dispersing anti-racism protesters early on monday. this very different scene represents what protesters want for their city and they say they won't leave until their key demands have been met. protests also resuming in london as the black lives matter movement continues to resonate around the world but as foreign minister boris johnson has urged protesters to stay at home claiming that demonstrations have been hijacked by extremists intent on violence but many remain determined to take to the streets with protest scheduled for friday and saturday. was
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despite the government's concerns about violence a small anti-racism protest went ahead peacefully in london on friday other runners have been planned for the weekend but some organizers are advising people to stay at home. this is what they fear might happen last weekend some protesters clashed with police in the government district of whitehall. statues in parliament square where defaced including that of winston churchill he may have led britain to victory in world war 2 but like many people of that era he also expressed views on race and imperialism that are not acceptable today. the prime minister of 2020 boris johnson has acknowledged the black and minority ethnic people in the u.k. have good reason to feel discriminated against but he also condoned last weekend's violence. here you can see that it is so my own for sure my message to everybody is that for all sorts of reasons they should not go to these demonstrations and
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whatever our feelings about the cause we should not support a demonstration that is you know probability looking at what's happened before going to end in deliberate and calculated. monuments the statues in central london have been boarded up to protect them against further defacement. another statue tossed into the harbor in the port city of bristol last weekend has now been salvaged it depicts a 17th century slave. in future it will no. longest time crowd in the city's streets counselors say it will likely be housed in a museum. and not to some of the other stories making headlines today the u.k. economy shrank by a wreck or 20.4 percent in april and it is now in its deepest recession in decades the sharp drop reflects the impact of the covert 19 lockdown. thousands of people
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have demonstrated in hong kong to mark the 1st anniversary of major clashes with police last year tens of thousands of demonstrators surrounded the legislative building the protests delayed the start of a debate on an extradition bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be sent to mainland china for trial. activists in the philippine capital manila staged protests against a proposed anti terror law that they fear could be used to quash dissent hundreds turned out to spy and police on is not to violate coronavirus restrictions to tara would allow thirty's to detain suspects for up to $24.00 days without charge. sharply rising coronavirus death toll is dividing society in brazil the country has the world's 2nd largest number of cases the numbers still increasing despite this president also no repeatedly downplayed the dangers calling for lockdowns to be
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lifted to a large canonical to vittie to resume protesters and are mobilizing against the president's handling of the crisis. the digging began before sunrise within hours these activists had transformed brazil's copacabana beach into a shallow grave yard a memorial to the country's 41000 corporate 1000 victims and a call to action. book gets up on to me official give me if you think this pandemic allowed all of our social injustices and the incompetence of the public authorities to america so we are here to ask for a change in attitude from the president of the republic and the federal government as a whole to the local the board throughout the crisis far right president also narrow has repeatedly flouted social distancing rules at one point joining an anti lock down rally. the group behind this protest see he has a risk to public health and left the country my old and death and division tension
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spelled out on the real sea front was one man knocking down the installation. god help you look at my son died from this virus at 25 years of age and this guy is clowning around with no sense of respect for those who are protesting that there needs to be respect who are going to be she's public and protesters have rights to a cool little present for that nobody tolerates that anymore causing terror that's terror that silliness is ok. while. the makeshift graveyard was meant to hama home the human cost of this pandemic in doing so it exposed a deep rests in a country polarized over its leadership. syria's president bashar assad has fired his prime minister dismissal off the mark commies comes
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against the background of a deepening economic crisis in a country torn by years of civil war that's brought protesters out into the streets calling for president assad to go they blame him for rising prices of plummeting syrian pound and their difficulties in making ends meet. the. syrians back on the streets calling for the end of bashar al assad's regime a rare sight in recent years after a violent crackdown on protests in 2011 triggered civil war so they are a government controlled city in southern syria hadn't seen unrest or in the conflict but this week dozens of people have been demonstrating they blame the regime for the country's deteriorating economy and the collapse of its currency. the syrian pound has plunged dramatically since the start of the conflict reaching
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new lows this week. people across the country are reeling from the crisis. the drop in the syrian pound is killing us we don't have any dollars we earn syrian pounds the syrian pound has fallen and the dollar is getting more expensive it's killing us oil is getting expensive what used to be 500 syrian pounds is now 3500 no one can afford to live. on thursday assad removed prime minister iemma khamis who had held the post since 2016 see media didn't give a reason for his departure but he has been the focus of criticism over the country's economic crisis a crisis that could be exacerbated by new u.s. sanctions set to come into effect later this month they target any country or company that does business with the syrian regime. the aim is to erode assad's
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power but critics fear the sanctions could cause serious battered population to suffer further. stories making news around the world at least 4 people have been killed in a blast. happened during friday prayers at. most no group immediately clamp responsibility taleban has condemned the attack. russia's president vladimir putin has made his 1st public appearance in more than a month out of russia day ceremony in moscow despite the global health emergency events are being held to celebrate the establishment of modern russia after the collapse of the soviet union soviet union. earned its constitutional court has agreed that the president elect should be sworn in immediately following the sudden death of the outgoing president if there is to die and she knew it was due to take over in oldest after winning the presidential election in may spread it says appear
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. died last week following a heart attack. the backlash against the popular video conference a conference in companies zoom continues following its decision to temporarily close the account of a prominent chinese pro-democracy group in an interview with the w. with the group's founder chinese dissident jew frank sure accused the u.s. based tech company of yielding to pressure from beijing as to jews account was suspended after his group's humanitarian china virtual meeting to mark the 31st anniversary of the gentlemen massacre critics call the suspension another example of beijing attempting to limit free speech. what did you reported joins us now and can tell us more about the walk us through what would happen if you meant it to or in china is the u.s. by script of thought that addressed get them right unwavering access to free speech they were wrong the group were mocking the
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a tenement where messy massacre the anniversary of it when their accounts suspended on the platform on which was being held now these pictures which we're going to take a look at that to relive world famous predict depicting the moment the man stood in front of the at the tank the wall that is one of the most famous images in the rest of the world china has successfully for the most part suppressed conversation about that uprising in any knowledge of the hundreds of people killed and all went missing after that. post a commemoration of this an event which china denies ever happened is late in the us where the event is constantly referred to as the in india of all territory in islam . and it's hosted by a dissident who is locked up as a result of being a protester in tiananmen square is his name is joe from show and we asked him how he felt as someone who ran from the persecution after tiananmen square the china influence china's influence could see a shutdown of the conversation in the usa. this.
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is. the most. so that's why c.c.s. . why it is. so unfair how has a zoom responded to these allegations and released a statement defending the move by saying that it must comply with laws in the respective countries where it operates and this is where it gets tricky because there were some 250 people attending this virtual commemoration
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a number of these people were in china including a mother whose child was killed during the massacre and is not seen her son since then understand why this event is more than tricky for beijing and why beijing then exerted pressure on june 24th it's very on policy by the letter of the law which states that when a meeting has held across different countries participants within those countries are required to comply with their respective local laws in a sense reactivated the account that the out right is is has not died down there are a lot of companies american companies that have tried the google tried and failed to get a search engine going that the china would agree with google facebook twitter are all blocked zone wants to stay in business in china but now the customer knows what is the the true cost of doing business of a zone. which has been a branch of thank you very much and. football by munich can wrap up an 8th consecutive honestly got tired. if results go their way they've won 9
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straight league games and now also in the german cup final an unstoppable force the twists in the tale. by in munich have experienced almost everything in football but winning abundance league a title in front of empty stands would be a 1st. after last weekend's friending win at leverkusen that is exactly what by and will achieve its rivals dorman blues it does hold off and the bavarians den beat mention glad back at home. before to come back when it leverkusen which featured this superbly team goal was followed by a tight german cup semifinal win over frankfurt in midweek the bye and juggernaut just keeps rolling. as it is and for soldiers it is simply a fact that we have a feeling in this group that every game we can get better that is there in the team it's part of the d.n.a. of buy in munich so duty in our state of mind or you are never happy you always
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want to improve and fall. by a 7 points ahead with 4 games left but there is a sliver of hope for the chasing pack experienced forwards robert levon dusky and thomas miller are both suspended from the game against champions league chasing glad back after bookings in leverkusen much to their annoyance. however dawson's trip to do sold off is also not straightforward the hosts are desperate for points given they sit in the relegation playoff spot. dortmund are not giving up the title yet but expect a difficult game. begins or she gave a mission and we must be very well prepared against such an opponent. i have watched a lot of docile golf games and recently they have been in good form the. moment. if dortmund lose in the early game then any by and win will do but the title
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celebrations might be a little strange in coronavirus times with lots of fan banners but no fans. the spanish top flight became the 2nd major european football league to return from coronavirus highest as last night sylvia beat city rivals real bettys 2 nil in front of empty stands fans gathered outside the stadium though despite officials official calls to maintain social distancing many supporters watched the good and bad times emotions got the better of them watching their teams for the 1st time in 3 months 6 years when has boosted the club's title. formula one has announced that races in azerbaijan singapore and japan have been cancelled teams are testing but the season has yet to start an 8 race calendar in europe starting with the austrian grand prix on july 5 has already been approved
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officials hope to hold more races outside europe with the season scheduled to end in abu dhabi in december as about jan and singapore were problematic because street circuits and travel restrictions have ruled out japan. and here's a reminder of our top story a warning from the u.n. that millions of children are at risk of being put to work many families are turning to dangerous child labor to put food on the table during the global health . in the charts. and that's it from me and the news chamber as an update at the top of the hour you're watching news.
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