recommended we bring the president up to walter reed as a precautionary measure measure. to provide state of the art monitoring and any care that he may need. just 72 hours into the diagnosis now the 1st week of it in a particular day 7 to 10 of the most critical in determining the likely course of this illness but that clarification caused confusion 72 hours into the diagnosis would mean he was confirmed infected on wednesday. trump only announced that he and the 1st lady had contracted covert 19 early on friday the president's doctor sean conley later issued a statement correcting himself. following an event at the white house rose garden last week a number of prominent republicans have also tested positive. including 2 senators from the judiciary committee who are due to consider trump's new nomination for the supreme court. vote is reportedly on the mend his chief of staff says the

next 2 days will be critical in the president's fight against covert 19. stories events with me in the studio an hour from us directions seriously we just heard the president say he's feeling better he's going to be back soon finishes pain is going to change his attitude regarding wearing a face mask well he had an opportunity and that message that he recorded to present a different side of himself to be a different man and he chose not to he chose not to advocate for proper precautions when it comes to dealing with covert 19 and at some point during the message he said that. this is he had no choice you know he didn't want to stay in the white house well that's fine we understand you have to work but there are different ways that leaders across the world have been able to get work done and there isn't really a choice of if you are a healthy person staying in fat or not you can wear a mask you can do these different things and i think that so many people who have been suffering from this virus or who have lost loved ones would have loved to hear

him try to connect with them on a human level thing i'm suffering from this i feel what you feel and this is what we need to do to protect ourselves and to do a better job and he chose not to do that and even in the white house now it isn't mandatory to wear a mask they say it's a personal choice and joe biden has been speaking a lot recently on wearing masks and taking precautions social distancing and so forth and we have a sound bite of him talking about how things would be if he were president. here's what i'll do is president number one call on every single american to worm mask when they're around other people outside their households that includes and they ride public transportation buses trains airplanes yesterday the transportation department stupidly in my view rejected a petition to require jets that where you mass when you're on public transportation if i can say something here this is not about freedom it's about patriotism you

were a mass to protect the person next to you you were a mass to protect the bus driver you wear a mask to protect the person you're sitting next to on the bus. and rejected cheroots to do the easiest thing possible to save large i find it appalling i promise you my department drove straight through insist on. democratic presidential nominee joe biden speaking the state see more people in the president's inner circle of the positive in recent days how certain can we be that this event in the rose garden was that soup was ready for the event well we don't know for sure if it was a superstar but it was a common denominator for at least 10 people that are involved with either his administration or his campaign that were really sick and the interesting thing about the rose garden event is that it was held to to try to take attention away from cove it one of strength and his mind is the fact that he's been able to

appoint so many conservative judges and so he want to take this moment to highlight his nominee for the supreme court any cornyn barretts. but there was very little social distancing and very few people were were met with. that so many of these people have become sick and hope it is still back in the news that something a trump have to deal with so it is only a month now from the presidential election how will all these infections. will that have on the trial well it has an effect on so many areas like with the 1st with this nominee for the supreme court because 2 senators who are on the judicial the thing that you just for a committee have become i have been diagnosed it's questionable if they can keep the timeline because they really want to hurry up and push and get her on the bench also we're looking at what the vice president mike pence has to do not only does he have to fill in on the road for donald trump but he might have to fill in

administratively and he's still going to take part in this scheduled debate with senator camila harris and what's different from the last event is that everybody there has to wear a mask except for the moderator and for the candidates so let's see if that event still happens that's a little bit up in the air series of events from our use election day thank you. fans have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today police used water cannons to disperse a rally in the illusion capital minsk they also began arresting demonstrators tens of thousands of people marched through the center of mints continuing a series of protests against alexander lukashenko ahead of the march show authorities withdrew the acars station of all foreign journalists in bella ruse. voters in the french archipelago of new caledonia have rejected independence turnout was high in the referendum on whether to break away from france after 170

years officials said 53 percent had voted no to independence a smaller percentage than in the last referendum 2 years ago. hundreds of demonstrators have taken to the streets of chillis capital santiago to protest against inequality and police brutality the demonstration was called in response to a video which appeared to show police officer pushing a young demonstrator off a bridge during clashes. in his latest and cyclical pope francis said that free market capitalism and trickle down economic policies have failed people in the wake of the coronavirus old saturday the pontiff signed the encyclical which is a letter offering his view on a topic in the crypt where his namesake son francis of assisi is buried. azerbaijan has accused armenian forces of shelling its 2nd city of guns or killing

at least one civilian and injuring others is the latest escalation between the 2 former soviet republics over the disputed nagorno-karabakh region which is officially part of azerbaijan but it is run by ethnic armenia star media has denied the attack on gaza but the leader of the call of her about says his forces hit the city's military base in retaliation. all that's left of these houses in the city you ganja. be asked by johnny's who lived here know they were lucky to escape this rocket attack. and they're in no doubt who is responsible. these men that are on medians did it but we're not afraid we stand here we will not leave spears that will go off the government of azerbaijan is already threatening retaliation and not only for this. in recent days the armenian armed forces have fired more than 10000 shells at various

cities and settlements of massive by john treacherous cowardly rocket and artillery attacks matter that often. meaning it denies the attacks on the upper the front of the nightgown artillery shells no miss isles have been launched from the territory of armenia to the territory of azerbaijan yet. both. are media accuses as a by john of continuing to shell the disputed region if not for nick had a bash including its capital. although officially pontiff as a by john the territory is run by ethnic armenians and its leader that has admitted his army destroyed a military and culture in ganja. it's unclear how many have died since clashes erupted last weekend but this has been the heaviest fighting between armenian and

as if by johnny forces since a cease fire was agreed in 1994. both sides claim the other is targeting civilians and to turkey now wading into pin dam on niña no one knows how this will end. rescue operations are on the way of along the french italian border to find dozens of people missing after a massive storm formed but at the region at least 2 people died as the storm called alex spoelstra rancho rain that collapsed but just a closed mountain passes. hanging on for dear life. hundreds of homes have been rendered uninhabitable after storm from alex stuck the vests to be valley in southern france on saturday. an entire year's worth of rain came crashing down in just 12 hours triggering landslides and causing rivers

to burst their banks. as rescuers search the debris for survivors local officials take stock of the damage is something to me is all but there are more than $100.00 houses washed away some partially destroyed or isolated it is will be the most of the inhabitants won't be able to live in these houses for a long time will be of all before. across the border in italy flash floods have forced emergency services to take to the air to reach victims trapped by the water communications networks have also been damaged complicating rescue efforts and cutting many families off from their loved ones. tuscany and companions were hit worst by the storm front. despite flood warnings then this was largely spared from the rising waters thanks in part to its new 1000000000 euro anti flooding barriers. sports news now and

a bit of long distance running the london marathon celebrated its 40th edition it isn't on a sunday and kenyan world record holder and defending champion brigitte cause is celebrating as well. coast such a victory and relentless rain in the women's race finishing in 2 hours 18 minutes and 58 seconds to retain a title landon it is is for career win on the men's side if the o.p.'s sure tata said favorite. of kenya to win with the time off 2 hours 5 minutes and 40 watts us. egypt has opened an exhibition of almost 60 coffins with well preserved mummies inside that were found in wells at the site of the old egyptian city of memphis south of cairo researches unsealed one of the decorated so foggy to reveal the mummy inside they believe the bodies preserved in

this way were those of priests top officials and other reporters people who died around 2 and a half 1000 years. that's it from me and the news team. up next film truckloads of doctors i've got office in berlin thanks for watching. imagine how many portions of us right now in the climate change if you are the story faces life lesson when for one week. we're going to really get. we still have time to ask i'm going. to.

chocolate we can't seem to get enough of it each year we consume $7000000.00 tons of it worldwide. it comes in countless varieties and price ranges made by anything from small artists and all chocolate makers to the international giants that dominate the market. and the whole spectrum can be seen at confectionery trade fairs like this but the exhibitors are also here to teach children about where chocolate comes from. if you heard of ivory cruz is the biggest producing country in the world through the cocoa through to the cocoa tree is called couples look how the biggest is we take care of these plants. surprisingly there are a critical voices at the exhibition as well environmental organization mighty earth

is here to talk about the darker side of chocolate through that image if you've consumed kolker in the past 20 years if popular supported child labor and slavery titles work in the worst condition a dangerous chemical has shot machetes and have to carry very heavy loan through. these has long been known in the chocolate industry but many companies still insist they are doing what they can to protect children and the. environment. to satisfy the industry acknowledges the problems the feistiest forestation and child labor of plantations us officials that i assure you it's they are working hard to improve the situation is that they want and. over the last 10 years more and more cocoa producers have pledged to save the forests and send children to school instead of work. but are they.

this is the harbor of abidjan the economic capital of ivory coast the west african country produces 40 percent of the world's entire cocoa supply. the trees that it comes from grow on small remote farms. there are around 6000000 of these farms worldwide and they're mostly left to their own devices. their harvest then goes through a long supply chain of traders and manufacturers before it ends up on our shelves. i'm paul mora a french television journalist and i'm interested in the very 1st link of this chain. much of the remaining rain forest in ivory coast lies in the south west about an 8 hour drive from the capital the region is known as the

country's cocoa belt. even as we approach on the main road children run away when they see our camera it's a sign we're getting close to the plantations. why did you tell him to run away is he working for you. know so why. send him away quietly filming. child labor is forbidden in ivory coast punishable by up to 6 months in prison but it's really prosecuted as it's shown too hard to prove. in the far west of the country the roads turn into wet muddy dirt tracks. militias patrol the area they say they're here to protect the people.

they collect money from everyone who passes through especially the cocoa trucks. it costs 100 francs to sometimes 500 if you've got a full truck it's 1000 francs. this is the protected one deb a forest reserve about 10 kilometers from the liberian border it used to be part of the species rich west guinea and lowland rain forest. but there's not much left of the forest or the protected animals. the land was cleared to make way for thousands of illegal cocoa plantations. the green plants are full cookout trees the primary forest is dead. officially no

one is even allowed to enter the same area without permission from the forrestal thorazine but no one is here to enforce the rules. to these hidden camps the littlest signs. the farmers are working illegally on land that doesn't belong to them journalists aren't welcome here so we don't tell them what we do. we're accompanied by a member of an n.g.o.s the human rights. that it will be. around 40 people live in this camp in huts men and children only to play drink water from the river and eat bananas and money that they grow in the forest themselves.

if they people could count homes and cut them open with machetes all day. that it takes a lot of care and precision the shells are hard and they're blades shop. with it it's the only way to extract the precious beams that is still coated in a white fleshy pulp. on. the back of. the beans are left out to dry before they have bagged up and sold to a co-operative. the workers are all very young about a 3rd of them

a children. c they're extremely poor immigrants from neighboring but. their homeland is a country plagued by drought hunger and violence the cocoa business in ivory coast is often. their only hope for survival. drum on is 13 years old you could why don't you go to school if you do good why don't i go to school when one of them yes it will land on me i dropped out. to. the parents couldn't afford it anymore to our local how did you end up here they. came with my older brother a lot of so what i'm getting. is the youngest in this camp for right what

about you know school i don't. know. no no no i don't like school. you know i need to earn money for. this forest should in theory be monitored by ivory coast's ministry of water and forests. were using me you ever see ranges here yeah but they leave us alone it is a matter for. the government does have an official plan to save the rain forest they want to redistribute the land reforest some of the areas that have been destroyed and use legal farms more efficiently more than 200000 cocoa farmers are meant to receive training. but next to nothing has actually happened so far meanwhile immigrants from bikini faso continue to arrive to work on ivory

coast illegal plantations. they come as children and stay for many years the forest becomes their prison with a seize is just one of its prisoners or if your parents stayed. in burkina faso you don't see them into the deep you know i haven't seen them for 6 years but . you. 15 when you arrived here. no. one remembered yet now i'm 21 a long time without your parents or your yes it's very painful you were told me i even got you know not want to tell you why no it was 50 things you knew that this is the 1st year i've actually started earning money that doesn't go for my sake. it's one of the darkest secrets of these clandestine plantations people like us ceased toil for years without

compensation only later to they receive a small piece of land in return to grow their own harvest and keep any returns it yields. he can finally make some money from selling cocoa this is how the camps in guam debate operate 1st the boys work for food then for payment in kind. of valley has also started working on his 1st small plot of land if you don't get by with 'd your boss doesn't pay you this is no no i didn't get any money at all that i was a decided i'd work you know get my own. for the club i do you work for free for 6 years exactly that's slave labor. yeah but that's just the way it is. this year i harvested i can. set.

a bag and a half that's 180 kilograms which sells for $210.00 euros that's ali's new annual income. has just arrived from bikini fast so this is the start of his new law. i fear. and then i. think someone sent him here is keeping me can you tell me how much money he makes. a year for the. idea that i. don't know young men that are developed here depending on how much. the question is making really sharp uncomfortable. i mean a very good thing. probably if you words

can hear literacy of his own plot. ok that you feel tamara right now is working for free just that he's working towards getting his own one of them imposed on that they're putting it all out how old are you a single thing do you know how old you are. you one of us and he doesn't know. where is your birthday. it was here when he went through the city. the city of geek low is 40 kilometers east of the forest children from bikini afonso who've been sold by their parents arrive at this bus station to be bought by plantation owners. to observe one of these transactions our n.g.o.s pretends to be a farmer he's wearing a hidden camera. he finds 2

traffickers at the station waiting for the children to arrive from bikini afonso. they target the most vulnerable ones who'll be willing to work just for food. they tell us who's in charge of this business. the next day we meet the old man as he's known here but trust me often kids for you no problem where you. live or where you i'm going to pay a purpose and. i'll be very happy to find children for you. i'll be happy and so will you. this will turn your profit i'll be a parent get 200000 francs on this i'm. just on the 200000 to the parents or to all oprah. or look below every person with a long can they work for me 34 years. to stay for 3 maybe 2. i can't pay more than $200.00 don't worry they're not all the same price. for humans

have different prices. like sheep are not worth the same. to finish your coffee and get the children. just right now of course. ok. 200000 west african c.f.a. francs a worth roughly 300 euro. rose that's the cost of $1.00 slave for 3 years. while our guide has a coffee the old man gets a tip off that there are journalists investigating the illegal plantations he calls off the deal. the young workers have no idea of the dangers they face at the cocoa plantations one of the worst is invisible toxic herbicides either going to work in the fields. we come across a lot of children wearing big weed sprayers on their backs often working without

a mask we want to find out what they're spraying. isn't that harmful for you. know. you won't get sick no. when you pour in there. so that that that the loser doesn't have a red lead yes that was the red lip meaning the poisonous. the bottles with the red lead contain we kill and it's sold everywhere but what's it made off. so is that i've no idea what it is it's chinese. forces to find out more about these weed killer we venture further into the forest to another illegal plantation the deeper we push the more we begin to realize why the forest is dying out and where one particular thing i would never go. there was

that. it kills we. always in everything then you plant cocoa. yes we spray the stuff everywhere it today is to the children who work here use this product as wells even see them. yes. it's gone for saying you know what that is yes. we know the name but we don't know what it does we just kill weeds and plant cocoa. glottis 8 is a broad spectrum herbicide that kills almost all clan species and the world health organization has identified it as a probable cause an agent especially when applied without appropriate protective gear. because no one told you it might be dangerous to know we didn't know it was wrong or possibly even deadly. because when you see the protective clothing on the packaging doesn't that make you wonder closer to what we know we know protection to use this product but we don't have any. so we just may do without it if.

that's how you make room to plant a cow mains water that's right. once the vegetation has been destroyed the cocoa can grow quickly. and come over for tea due to the trees they're all white so. we set them on fire. ok do we use dry wood to burn them down. if the like you've. been you have no cites for coca. exactly it's going to. count trees rely on the 1st trial soils of the forest but they're also leeching them dry. the environmental organization mighty earth documents the destruction that i see all these new way to look at our. once kick our rides it takes over the entire forest as

a full sun monoculture masses of chemicals are sprayed all over 20 years later the ground is completely worthless so they push deeper into the forest and do the same thing again and again they just keep moving further and that's why i say the cow plant is a cannibal canyon and. between 909-2015 over 90 percent of ivory coast's primary forests were cleared. they've mostly been replaced with could count trees. these continual deforestation is having an impact on the local and global climate less forest means less rain and without rain nothing will be able to grow here even

cocoa. as the soil dries up so it is a vital source of income in the region within a week in the guam debbie forest we witnessed all the crimes the industry pledged to eradicate including slave labor child labor and the destruction of the environment. or that you know. about like good. however each and every day tons of these illegal cocoa beans into the regular supply chain the people who buy them are like to keep a low profile but we find a trading post at the edge of the forest that buys both legal and illegal produce these bags stored here come from at least 40 different families. and there's no marking on the bags to say where they came from their opened in the beans are all mixed together completely impossible to track.

one of the biggest cooperatives in the region cooper webb used to work under the fair trade label. displaying the slow go means taking a stand against child labor and deforestation. in 2017 people webb had its certification suspended was the cocoa being grown in the protected rain forest. that's what. we have hardly any business partners in the classified rain forest the number is marginal. because it says that when these trucks arrive with dozens of bags like these are you sure none of them come from the areas where child labor or deforestation are taking place let's be honest we saw child labor everywhere within the classified zone outside the zone everywhere. this.

is a back it depends what you call child labor a man who takes his kids to the field on sundays is that child labor. no that's not child labor this. but i'm going from the cane afonso who's been here. 5 years off that's child labor raiola i mean normal. so far i haven't heard of any such cases of children working for one of our partners to. make a law can you be sure. we inspect our producers every year. the supply chain for chocolate is anything but transparent what exactly happens between the forest and down supermarkets. that's the cocoa you process where does it go how

does it work who's buying this next quarter's. exporters. like to mislay. it is export us from ivory coast. to. the cooper web manager won't tell us who he sells to we come back in the evening and to drive us spills the beans. are those the cargo yes. they both yes. koopa web sells it's kick our beans to congo a giant u.s. conglomerate the trades agricultural commodities among other things. it's an intermediary that sells cocoa on to the chocolate makers whose products we see in our supermarkets many people haven't even heard the name before.

surprisingly we managed to get an interview with congo they usually prefer to stay under the radar. i keep the silver cocoa too that you get from ivory coast to many big companies i'm not exactly sure nestle mars legal. and some others. without knowing it. most of us are eating cocoa products supplied by congo the company promises that it supplies clean cocoa but we have our doubts we confront the manager and his p.r. officer with our images. only it is stupid because we only stayed for a few days and we saw children on the roadside working with machetes and weeding with dangerous herbicides. that's terrible you should already know about the ideas on phones to see if there is a child labor is something we do our best to prevent with them the certified co-operative organizations that are part of our sustainable development network.

for sustainable hoka we offer a 50 percent premium cycle compared to the price of conventional cleaners. so 50 percent goes to the cooperative who. do you have the cash to visit local physics my basically the boss are you sure the money is being redistributed. even the cooperative is run by a well trained people it's all for me. our system works. we're committed to quality. the promise commits is to make a difference to them in return for the 50 percent premium these cooperatives are supposed to actively improve the daily lives of farmers by building schools for instance this is a promise that cooper webb has also committed to. it is it hard to verify when children are being forced into labor so we have to build

a school this year only one of our sections in the 6 year time or. oh you do for cooper went for cooper web. site when. you got it well the location has already been chosen but we'd rather keep it confidential and next year if you come here i'll show you where there was already there will be. i hope it'll be there and it will be there and. why is it a location secret nothing's been built. because he's lying that he didn't tell the truth seems to. me i can't promise that things are running better in our industry than elsewhere. also to edge to no longer destroy the rain forest to grow cocoa they promised that by the year 2030 there would be 0 d. forestation in the supply chain. for station is

a key issue for us as without the forest there's no rain and without rain we have no. bean. that sounds wonderful that you do business in one of the most the forested places in west africa yes it's very difficult. for a station and coast between 116 and 28 there was a 90 percent and when we arrived in 2010 that figure was already 80 percent did tweet or miss things need to change. how can you be sure that the cocoa superwomen selling it doesn't come from the classified forest. which is basically a lawless zone where unspeakable things are happening. we've implemented our reliable system that enables us to identify the producers we're working with. supply they are g.p.s.

tags with a barcode on. it. we collect all of this and a database which allows us to link the product to the producer that he played. this system is mentioned on congo's website codes on cocoa bags a scanner with satellite connection that offers state of beyond g.p. . yes traceability the problem is this footage is from ghana not ivory coast. i'm sorry but i spent a week in this area and i didn't see a single bag with a barcode cooper where they didn't have a single one but said that information doesn't match what i have here at all. we asked the cooper web manager about the possibility of using technology to identify the farmers and track the bags. it was so how can we know whether it actually comes from the classified for us all we need a g.p.s.

position is we do but who can help us with that the state is to take it that we said. do you know how they do it in ghana you in ghana they're facing the same issues each bag has a barcode with a g.p.s. identification that links it to the producers you can work like that could you make it happen i said blushing we've got so full if they can do it in ghana we should be able to do it here as well but. i didn't get a confirmation about these barcode maybe it's the old system but it's definitely certified we're talking about the worst practices here no doubt we're not perfect i'm not saying that we've found the perfect solution but we are trying. after the interview we receive an angry message from congo they checked and have to admit we were right there are no barcode on the bags from the go on to be forest but they

assure us that 99 percent of farmers are registered and everything should be straightened out within a year. to $600.00 defies the soundest all these issues deforestation slave labor child labor it all comes down to one thing traceability without traceability law it's almost or it's all in the shadows we don't know the root of it accountable everyone is hiding as soon as we know who sells flights tomorrow night. when where and how then all of a sudden we have something that works we can have a little people accountable to this child and particularly for this case to slave wherever they are just before a station and so we can fix the problem traceability is the key to everything. we also want to explore be areas of ivory coast where cocoa is being grown illegally rather than on secret plantations in the classified rain forest. in 2012 ivory coast governor.