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welcome to. glad you could join us it is a product that is controversial but also impossible to avoid boyle is found in around how thought of the goods sold in supermarkets around the globe and in most brands environmental activists have been campaigning to have it banned for years because its cultivation. and indonesia has led to the destruction of the rainforest and also many wildlife species what is perceived less attention however other conditions of the millions of walkers employed in the palm oil industry a new investigation by the associated press news agency has revealed many are subjected to horrific abuses including forced labor. it's a job that's both difficult and dangerous. harvesting the heavy pall mall fruit

requires both strength and stamina. work is often have to tend more than 100 trees in large expanses of jungle such as here in indonesia in extreme heat and harsh conditions but for many such challenges seem small when compared to the other problems they face as employees of the international palm oil industry. the industry has been built on a back barn of human trafficking it's been built on a back barn of modern slavery and it's been built on the back bar in all of these companies being out of violate human rights norms left right and center with no consequence. nearly 130 workers from 24 companies and 8 different countries were interviewed by the a.p. for their investigation into the industry. the results were disturbing almost all said they had been mistreated some said they had been threatened sexually harassed and forced to work for nothing even deprived of their freedom. while you're not

only able to work i was working as a slave at the palm oil farm a good working without getting a salary i started in the morning i worked until evening. others were afraid to show their face on camera fearing reprisals leaders of the guy as for my money my employer threatened to throw me over with a car coming the route hours a lot of. palm oil is found in a vast array of products sold by well known companies. it's used in the manufacture of food cosmetics paints pesticides animal feet and pills among other things it's a global business with billions of dollars it's mainly funded by asian banks but western institutions including the likes of deutsche bank j.p. morgan chase and the vanguard group also invested in the industry when asked to respond to the allegations of mistreatment most rita made to the support for human

rights. but as the demand for palm oil surges so too do the risks. many of whom of vulnerable and have no other option. let's get more on this from deputy director of human rights watch has issued a vision for the robertson who joins me now from bangkok philip how can bombard companies get away with this well it's an excellent question but these are very rich influential companies they're connected very closely with the governments in the case of malaysia and indonesia and they are also exploiting some of the most vulnerable workers that you can imagine foreign workers who are coming in some cases from south asia or other places in southeast asia where. these people are you know facing real difficulties and are desperate to find paying jobs you spoke about connections with their governments in indonesia and malaysia does that

mean that these governments don't have to put it to can will to actually improve conditions in the palm oil industry. well there they're saying that they want to because they're being threatened with sanctions we just had f.g.b. which is one of the largest palm oil exports are in malaysia barred from the u.s. market by the u.s. customs and border patrol agency because of forced labor on their plantations and that is a huge blow for malaysia it's a huge blow for the malaysian government because the malaysian government essentially is the majority's shareholder in that company so when you talk about some of these palm oil. companies and the plantations you're really talking about an industry that is connected at the highest levels in these countries and there's not a lot of interest in really sort of peaking behind the covers to see what sort of

abuses are taking place expression when they're not happening in may cases to malaysians they're happening to foreigners in the case of indonesia it's happening to poor indonesians so you know there's not a lot of political commitment to take on these issues and really a kind of have the systematic reforms that need to be done to end the abuses and speaking of the workers who are working on these or the plantations are there actually forced to walk do they have no other option because they have no other employment opportunities. well many of them come from a far you know and they don't know what they're necessarily getting themselves into you know in the case of malaysia many of them are from burma or from bangladesh they're they have no work there so they're promised jobs in malaysia and they end up paying huge brokerage fees often in their own country often under the table and they arrive in malaysia with thousands of dollars of debt to be worked off because

they need to. earn money and send it back home and they have to work to survive and what they find is that they're not being paid what they're promised there are a lot of deductions their passports are seized they're in remote areas and these huge palm plantations where the local controller really has the power and can use violence to make people work and they have no other option they're trapped they're forced to labor it's a situation that we see all over these plantations and it's a very difficult one to get at because there is a community to abuse these workers well if i'm even there for the time even thank you so much for joining us from robinson thank you to china next for the country is grappling with the growing problem of gambling addiction gambling is officially illegal in the country is the only place where one can legally gamble but online gambling business is a sucker meant to go fish and checks to tap into the chinese market with watering

results well if there is a. phone. well. you know we saw one chouhan how going to rid himself of his online gambling addiction to regain control of his life the vegetable wholesaler enrolled at this rehab center in shanghai his compulsion has cost him and his loved ones dearly. because the biggest impact of gambling is that my marriage broke down. and my family is in chaos. and house gambling debts forced him to sell his family's home his wife from whom he's stolen money has divorced him. and no one feels at ease. and all are deeply hurt and living

a painful life and with tears on their faces he. gambling has been illegal in mainland china since the state's inception in 1949 but now online operators largely using servers in the philippines provide a wide array of gambling options aimed at chinese customers by one official estimate online bets totaling $145000000000.00 were made last year in china everything from baccarat to blackjack poker to mahjong and sports betting. people enroll at the center for a week of sessions with therapists and other addicts they discuss how gambling's fix to be a losing game they join in psychological treatment and devise strategies to keep their minds off their habit. and afterward writing summaries of their treatment with lessons learned despite their divorce huang's ex-wife still supports him as he

battles his demons. he's been depressive for a long time and people surrounding him are putting too much pressure on him so he doesn't have any outlet to release the pressure part of that his gambling addiction is not accidental it's inevitable if you weren't addicted to gambling he'd be addicted to something else. then the week is over time to face life on the outside but the couple has a plan they'll work toward clearing hong's debts in a year get remarried and make a fresh start together. end of august and 18 year old teenager has made it her mission to climb mountains it's a sports not normally associated with women in the country who already face significant hurdles in their daily lives but that is of no consequence to father muscle. fatima's soltani is used to scaling new heights as

18 she's already climbed no shack peak afghanistan's highest mountain in some time he says it's one of the hardest climbs in the world she's the youngest woman ever to reach the mountain spectacular summit. on the one on its own but my main goal is to show the world that afghan women are strong and can do the most challenging work that men do. and i will do you know that woman from foreign countries come here to conquer the high peaks of the mountains of afghanistan i thought why can't the afghan women also conquer these peaks. the hindu kush mountain range was a popular climbing destination in the past but nowadays the ongoing war in afghanistan makes doing sport here dangerous especially true for women with soltani

well aware of the current political climate in the country. when i got into sports i knew that i would face some problems in the future. for example one of the issues is that the taliban me for that sports for women up was on the to raise the afghan flag now i'm ready to face any challenges. without them. what's next for the afghan pioneer soltani is setting her sights even higher she's preparing for the world's highest peak mount everest. and that's it for today there's more on did up a dog gone forward slash leader now with images of what will be up against as she attempts to conquer everest we're back on monday and survivor.

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beethoven is for us. this morning and claiming. beethoven 202250th anniversary here on. welcome to m culture where we conclude off series on the 990 s. a groundbreaking decade him off to germany was reunited also coming up today with. a brand new movie about a legendary german film a kind of ride of an affront spent at cinemas this weekend. but 1st it's 30 years since germany was reunited and we conclude our series on the

$990.00 s. a defining decade which changed society so much after the fall of the wall after the initial jubilation of reunification the freedom that came with it for 30000000 east germans how did the aussies and vessels themselves reunite we've dug deep in the extensive d.w. archive to find out more. german reunification altered the lives of millions of east germans for ever freedom to travel western culture western goods they suddenly had access to it all because of that great and for the joy or the happiness of everyone there was a huge amount of energy that was released. in a public link was 9 years old when the berlin wall fell and lived in the east outside of berlin along with the joy she felt she also had a lot of questions. you know i was pretty confused when it all happened

not because i didn't want it or i didn't even really understand it at 1st but because i saw confused people all around me everyone had to get used to the new situation including the children and suddenly everything familiar was gone including a political system that was restrictive but also provided for almost everything disillusionment soon set in the east german economy collapsed unemployment rose and entire regions became desolate young people in particular grew frustrated. because we were going to shop for some and this. was my numbers because it was really hard for my generation to find its way what direction are going on how we had to learn everything about how things work in the west end of you. there were a lot of expectations and we couldn't fulfill them right away not because we didn't want to but because we were scared this got easier said of whom we got into the

money void as a number. but the end of east germany also made a lot of things possible in apollo the clink dreamed of becoming a singer she found a producer and in 1995 recorded her 1st song to finish. only . in 1907 she launched her television career as a reporter at the edge of the show posed by a date she brought together young people with opposing viewpoints i mean it. was my my you it's funny but that legal immigrants like take the federal money you is because we have. in the 1st moved to berlin then to hamburg many of her east german contemporaries also left their hometowns then moved to mostly western germany not an easy step as 2 examples from our archives demonstrate. a car

mechanic from saxony on hard found work near chicago each friday he drove back to his old home in his brand new mercedes. in the g.d.r. we'd need to go dancing and we'd all sit in the same table and we all understood each other for years and it's harder to make friends here and i'm lonely at times and all of those movies went through the marketing expert from southern germany moved to dress him for a management position and was surprised by her east german colleagues. to boncelles they weren't used to things like flexibility productivity and motivation promptness . but gradually these close encounters of an east west kind help to overcome prejudices and resulted in friendships. dance romantic relationships. i can't imagine that a millionaire could be happier than we are. in a polar klink was also able to take advantage of opportunities provided by german

reunification some 3 decades later she presents her album sound check in a brewery turned cultural center and a chic neighborhood if. this used to be east germany now it's hard to imagine it was once all in disrepair this is the day i've been is it's simply part of the history that has shaped the country and we have to keep talking about it and we should keep celebrating it as part of our history because this country was divided and now that that's over i'm happy to meet lovely people no matter where they're from. the. former east former west. klink that's irrelevant her life has been improved by reunification and for her the east west divide is firmly in the past but. that's a. sadness that. is with me now. follows

happy isn't she but the majority of east germans well the german government's most recent report on the progress of reunification indicated that 57 percent of. the still feel they are 2nd class citizens much of this has to do with resentment due to a continuing wage divide despite eastern germany having made major economic progress on the other hand over happiness is the pew research center's survey shows that the proportion of eastern germans with the happiness writing increased from 15 percent in 1991 to 59 percent in the most recent survey ok now on the cultural from some former east germans have done very well internationally and yet. first and foremost ramstein of course whose members all grew up in communist east germany she know that 3 members were in

a band in east berlin and in the eighty's they reformed recruits in the ninety's as ramstein and went on to conquer the world with provocative songs and incendiary live metal circus act the success even more extraordinary because they broke into the u.s. charts with songs in german yeah what about in the art world i'm thinking of me orion the lights named after lights yeah the like 6 there was a richard and they refer to artists from the former german town in the times of communism but shortly thereafter after 1909 the new leipsic school took off this was people who studied in leipsic under the old east german masters and worked in styles that depended on the social realism of communism they shot to fame in particular as you said neo route just paintings have

sold for in excess of $1000000.00 and finally the the movies as well i'm thinking of barbers bag studios just outside that's right bubble's book has become a popular destination for global film productions over the last 20 years. steven spielberg's film bridge of spine is oscar winning production starring tom hanks is just one of numerous hollywood films made in germany with the studio as co-producer and the most ambitious german television series of all time. then made extensive use of studio metropolitan act last. candidate as always thank you very much for those insights have a group where you can you. we turn now to a new film about the legendary german film director ryan of an

a fast spend whose life was actually as exciting as his films he was incredibly prolific make you have a 40 films to t.v. series and $26.00 states of plays in under 2 decades the candle at both ends famously using the quote i'll sleep when i'm dead which unfortunately happened to him from a lethal dose of drugs and 982 and he was just 37 years old this new film aptly titled all fall to everybody comes out around europe so. that makes him a class this guy not because they think in so for their name by the way in the construction of a gold mine what i believe if you. use it. is equally cost who. started it was i got taj.

hotel is that too expensive t.t.'s to. this is the 1st shot this is. not stuff that maybe even in the theater no one could expect gentle treatment from fassbender he was always ruthlessly provocative with the aim of stirring things up but it. was. for all right for by. far i think so of fontes even though it is a fitting title for a film about the subversive often unpalatable suspend it shows the director as a nasty onset dictator so i'll take that to be the child i was told i was also going through not the biopics director perhaps. exaggerating a bit not at all fuelled by alcohol drugs and a robust hugo fassbender himself often seemed like

a monstrous stage character which is why his films his protagonist against theatre sounds fast in the remain singular with no imitators or static successors. what remains is this great language faculty he had this great dramatic faculties of his film sound different from the people speak differently. other embodies fassbender almost as if he were his twin brother the twin he's a bit afraid of. what i wanted to keep him away not let him in at all but also because fassbender as manic creativity a cinema obsessed director made more than 40 films in just 12 years. fast in those personal dreams also collapsed he longed for love and intimacy yet found them intolerable he gathered his clan of collaborators around him like a surrogate family he needed them he loved them and yet he's humiliated is going to

. escape. it. film is a fearless depiction of a driven man deformed by his own tremendous energy he was eventually devoured by it dying at the age of 37. captures the fascination fassbinder still exerts. in the mall and. the stadium cheerleader minus the. finally the big music news this week was confirmation australian ac d.c. getting back together with over 200000000 albums sold to date it's a real ac d.c. reunion with the return of singer brian johnson the basis chris williams of the

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