become citizens. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. this is a deed of news live from berlin deadlock in israel's 4th election in 2 years long serving prime minister benjamin netanyahu claims victory but exit polls suggest he'll fall short of a majority and will have to open tricky coalition talks also coming up. emergency services rescue residents stranded by the worst flooding in eastern

australia in decades one has a dangerous devery lurking in the floodwaters. and how to fight against the pandemic has opened up opportunities for indian women with skills in a high risk profession. i'm told me a lot of boys good to have you with us israel's 4th election in 2 years appears to be deadlocked veteran prime minister benjamin netanyahu is claiming his right wing likud party has won a huge victory but exit polls suggest he'll fall short of securing an outright majority and only to enter coalition talks with the rivals early results signal the electorate shifting broadly towards the right. music celebrations everywhere yet who as one. within hours of the polls closing prime

minister binyamin netanyahu claimed his right wing likud party and its allies had won a huge victory the result is likely to fall well short of that claim it appears that as in previous elections that on yahoo will be forced into tricky coalition negotiations in order to form a government the centrist yes a tea party led by may have done even better while counting is still going on netanyahu is confident. the state needs a stable government. not a government of bits and pieces based on personal disqualifications on ambitions a stable government for the state of israel that's what the our demands that's what the challenge is in front of us demand and we must not under any circumstances drag the state of israel to a new elections to a 5th election we must form a stable government now. so. netanyahu ran for reelection

despite being on trial for corruption israel successful coronavirus vaccination program has seen more than half the country already inoculated that may have boosted netanyahu standing among voters but not by enough to secure an overall victory. the much smaller yamuna party also right wing a nationalistic led by enough to leave bennett's could now hold the key to power bennett is a former ally of netanyahu who could well work with him again from us a tool from the. netanyahu has been in power for 12 years making him israel's longest serving prime minister he's also the 1st to be indicted in office but denies corruption the 71 year old campaign not just on his handling of the pandemic but also played up how he normalized relations with 4 arab states. some more analysis on. elections i'm joined now by d.w.

reporter shiny resign as shiny good to have you on the program prime minister benjamin netanyahu is right when likud party emerges as the strongest force in the exit polls now will netanyahu be able to form a government at last it doesn't look like it actually we still we still have to wait for the final results what we see now is based on exit polls and we see many shifts happening through the night every time there's more and more results coming in but basically we see the same picture as we've seen the last 4 results we see quite quite of a time between the 2 main sides of the prone ateneo camp and they are the camp that is trying to defeat and change it's now being thrown here and it's not quite clear if he has enough of the numbers lined up on his side yet and even if he does have that it's quite clear it's going to be very very narrow majority it's going to

be a very difficult. coalition building process that we're facing yet once again the 4th time in 2 years in israel and some of those exit polls what do they indicate about the distribution of seats when you compare this to previous elections. it's interesting you know where we are after a year of pandemic that hit israel very hard i know we are mentioning how the rollout of vaccine was quite supportive but we don't see changing much in the numbers if you look at what his supporters have gotten now comparing to what they've gotten a year ago or 2 years ago we see that in this. so in a way. it's like they're condemning never happened is that there was that corona never happened and in that essence the success that we have had with the vaccines doesn't really count the grooves thing him up which you very much hope for above the threshold of 60 seats which he needs he needs at least 61 seats in order to to make the majority that entitles him to have. the primary murshid been

a very comfortable stable coalition he didn't manage to do that this bike agreed who's the vaccines there is no doubt they did have an effect but only in the sense that they have maybe stopped him from the 2 year waiting we know that polls about a month ago showed him we can mean so he would gain some of his bases but he doesn't manage to break through and neither does the other side basically and were there when the mother's day when will another very frustrating result for all citizens and politicians in israel like. shani resigning so resign is thank you for explaining this to us. huge swathes of eastern australia remain underwater after a week of relentless rain emergency services which last year battled unprecedented bushfires and now rescuing residents from flooded homes has included dangerous devry lurking in the flood waters. to mention the rains have been unstoppable in

australia's east bridges roads. cars and buildings are surrounded by water. the flooding has forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. rescue efforts are underway to assist those left behind. alone we did anybody. days of heavy rain have caused rivers to burst their banks and water levels to rise the day priest making recovery efforts all the more difficult. coming up with one of the. t.v. screens couches things like that are quite dangerous at this point on and it seems that boats are the only option to save those stranded in the terrain. some residents have decided to stay home and to weather the storm people around us

not so lucky because in their. neighbors a. surf. lucky several areas have been declared disaster zones with floods and severe weather warnings issued from south east queensland to the border area and the cost of the damage is already being felt. a fair bit closer if the water started almost too much. so i thought to talk quickly about. the become or. the fruit there and. authorities are also offering funds for the displaced they're warning residents to be on high alert. overnight unfortunately some conditions have. conditions

a locket it was during the day many communities will experience increasing heavy rainfall and as we had 5. 1000 people have been evacuated and regrettably we have warnings now for an additional $15000.00 people that may need to be. while there have been no lives lost rebuilding. the homes and businesses destroyed in this disaster will come at the highest cost. here's a roundup of other stories making news around the world an erupting volcano has forced guatemala to close its international airport ash from the mountain has coated the runway and aircraft at last hour or an airport the volcano south of guatemala city is one of the world's most active violent explosions have been spewing out ash for several weeks. the u.s. has pledged to rebuild and revitalize nato after 4 years of tension under the trump

administration secretary of state anthony blinken told fellow foreign ministers in brussels that the alliance stands at a pivotal moment but could emerge stronger despite current disputes within the alliance. veteran hollywood actor george segal has died aged $87.00 he was nominated for an oscar for the movie in which he 1st found fame who's afraid of virginia woolf siegel went on to become a comedy stalwart he made all audiences laugh well into his eighty's in t.v. series including the goldbergs. the chinese cities of hong kong and macau suspended use of the biotech fires a covert 1000 vaccine defective packaging was reported in one batch of the drug authorities say they've acted as a precautionary measure the vaccine manufacturers say there's no reason to believe safety is a risk. the global health crisis has pushed demand for skilled medical stuff to an

all time high western countries especially are looking for more nurses some offer extra perks to encourage applicants southern india is home to many medics who find work abroad u.w. travel to kerala to meet some of the latest recruits. flinty. ungentle grew up in and out of hospitals as a severely anemic child she was often admitted for treatments. but that traumatic experience spock what i'm bishan i really got inspired by the those who cared for me because of them i really wanted to be a nurse i want to earn a lot to look after my family and as for last 2. something. extraordinary my wife and she plans to do just that which is why this morning and you isn't headed to the hospital she's going to

english class. for decades now nurses like unto have been emigrating from the south indian state of keller. to work in hospitals in the middle east and europe. and i'm jus plans to move to the u.k. with her family to take up a nursing job the country is easing these are processes. and offering food and accommodation books for applicants. but still needs to pass an english test to qualify. she's joined an 8 week course offered to nurses who need to boost their english skills. many of these women have already worked in covered 19 wards. sometimes sit in these classes of welcome bring. but all of them also seem to be itching to get back and they want to take their fight global pandemic is country or india compared to the western on this

especially the u.k. so i guess i know that i can do the same for them also we have managed to contain the pandemic in the 1st few months it was it was a mortal for the whole world and i really believe that we can do the same in all the other countries as well i believe that this is a really strong and this pandemic has really mordred as 2 faces released and our skills have improved international recruiters seem to agree the state sponsored consultancy where these women are being trained has helped nurses emigrate since the seventy's but they've never seen demand like this double salaries chartered flights interview reverse an expedited results are becoming the norm. comes during a pandemic the north has become the real warriors the world realizes that even

soldiers can do anything no one can except nurses all the health care workers they are fighting for the demand for them is higher. for and to a movie be as much about helping fight the pandemic in the u.k. as about securing her child's future by give. education. to my son. better in his feet and can answer anything untrue believes nothing is all about. it may be why she's unafraid of leaving behind all she knows to save lives far from home. venice is beginning a year of celebrations to markets $1600.00 birthday they tally in port city known as la 70 sima is planning a series of events to mark the anniversary the local council hopes the festivities all help to make up for tourists lost to the pandemic devastating flooding has also

hit revenues but a pair of dolphins have been spotted swimming in the canals this week a possible tourist attraction in their own right. you're watching the news live from berlin the news continues at the top of the ah but up next is our documentary about slavery roots and told me a logical and that's it for me but thanks for joining us. from. our names. who have to say matters to us. that's why i'm so into their stories. reporter every

weekend on d w. this is the story of a world whose borders and territories were drawn by the slave trade where violence subjugation and profit imposed their own roots this criminal system shaped our history and our world. unsubtle me the portuguese invented an economic model with unprecedented profitability the sugar plantation. was the 1st black colony 1st slaves as our. marriage of the black man was sugarcane. in the 16th century other european powers were eager to follow their model their greed would plunge an entire continent into chaos and violence nearly 13000000 africans were cast on to new slavery routes to the new world where the english the

french and the dutch hopes to become wealthy in measurably wealthy. because the caribbean has similar climatic features to sell till may it eventually became the principal crossroads of the slave traders routes for people in the western world these islands are today associated with the cation guadalupe offers tourists a dream destination sunshine and pristine nature rekindling myths of a lost paradise holiday makers tend to confine themselves to the beaches of the. un and south. but as this sign indicates they are all too close to another side of the

island's heritage that was anything but a paradise. just a few meters away from the bathers is a burial site where countless. skeletons were discovered. between 501000 graves are still buried beneath the sand. the result clare beach is one of 15 slave cemeteries that have been excavated 15 among the 1000 that exist in the caribbean. 89 skeletons have been exiled by french archaeological research experts judging by the state of the bones they concluded that these men and women had not reached the age of 30 by the time of their death the toll from working on the plantations had so deformed their bodies that they seemed more like 75 year olds. these people were human guinea pigs for the sugar experiment the collateral damage

of an unprecedented trade war the sugar war. 74 percent of all slaves carried off. were cut off because of sugar if you want to understand the slave trade you just need to know but sure of. sugar proved more addictive than pepper or cinnamon from the 17th century onward europeans craved this rare and expensive commodity in london amsterdam and paris sugar fever was rampant prompting a new generation of adventurers to go to any extremes to get it ship owners and fitters merchants and pirates all knew that to produce sugar you needed a lot of slaves. john hawkins was one of these new entrepreneurs' for whom profit reign supreme the english privateer was a pioneer in understanding that a fortune could be made by shipping black captives to the new world in the mid 16th

century he convinced queen elizabeth the 1st to lend him a ship the jesus of lu back for the expedition hawkins conspicuously set the tone by choosing a trussed up black man on his emblem. i do confirm to your highness that i will bring home 40000 marks without any offense of the least any of your highness's allies all friends. by will conduct this enterprise and turn it to the benefit of your whole realm with your highness's consent the voyage proposes to load negroes in guinea and sell them in the west indies in truck of pearls golden emeralds that i will bring back in abundance. 1620 a century after sugar plantations were introduced in brazil the atlantic became the battleground for the sugar war england the netherlands and france wanted to break

spain and portugal as had gemini. in the caribbean the dutch took control of congress south and sent to a station and some a town the french what a loop granada and. sentimental the english occupied the bahamas jamaica. barbados and dominica. only cuba and later rico remained under spanish rule after the extermination of the natives are a lot people the 1st sugar canes flourished and this from thailand the caribbean became a space of conquest for the europeans very early on really was the 1st place the columbus landed in the new world the 1st place that the spanish began to search for gold and the 1st place they began to enslave the indians so they were thoroughgoing spaces created by design of european planters and imperial policy makers and for their profit there aren't so many places where you can completely overlay

a territory like that so there are in some ways the caribbean is a space where you find the purest of colonial territories where the masters of the space actually get to create the space to suit their own needs. in what a loop every plot of land every single square inch of ground is connected to this violent and deeply rooted history. today all that is left of the should know war is a field of ruins. of the 250 sugar refineries active in the late 1900 century only to remain in operation.

'd in 2017 experts from france's national institute of preventive archaeological research exude the remains of the some shocked residents and sugar refinery in almost datong an ill stock rooms and 3 rows of so-called negro huts where hundreds of slaves were penned up together. in this brutal work camp human beings work but one tool among others each became a mechanized and they see a dead body consumed by work until their final breath. of blood the time in which the slaves were digging the cane holes and the times in which their harvesting are really the peak of the labor on a plantation you could almost see the slaves wasting away when they were digging these can holes because the work was so strenuous and they were getting fed so poorly. ringback

you found women in all of the gangs oftentimes doing the hardest dirtiest labor on the plantation alongside the men or even before the men and one of the things that means when you find young women doing this quite ability. any labor is the birth rates are very low and the mortality rates the infant mortality rate is shockingly high in the mid 18th century people talked about 9 out of 10 infants born to enslave jamaican women dying within the 1st year so there's no way in which the plantation can reproduce itself under those kinds of conditions. he pulled a social shoot out of the plantations when managed by overseers who saw the slaves in purely functional terms only exploit this young this was absolute exploitation of the work force it was a very particular society both good because the average race of life expectancy on a plantation was extremely low about 8 to 10 years after arriving. to.

be seen as. the logic of the slave system was one where the availability of the work force had to be absolute limit as well as we did and for this man was conceived as an accessory of the land. by god they appeared as such in house him and doors used to the slow up as slaves are listed next to records for livestock or manufacturing implements. to us but. that's the archaic aspect which was put to use by a capitalist system and which largely met market supply and demand with its fluctuations because it needs in competition free competition. the sugar plantation saw slavery enter a new era the stronger the demand for sugar the more the slave trade expanded and the more the slave traders sought support from banks to finance their expeditions.

london is one of the oldest centers of global finance the city of london was the 1st to create a commodities exchange to develop credit markets and to issue banknotes on a massive scale without the invention of essential lies banking system the explosion of the slave trade in the 17th century would not have been possible preparing for a slave expedition was expensive and having a financial arsenal england a decisive advantage over its competitors. you've got to remember. the state is getting a tremendous amount of revenue from the plantation complex of a have a very strong vested interest in the slave trade if you had gone to the king of england in 16 a.d. and said look i'm going to give you a choice you can either have these 13 colonies in north america are you going to have this one little island called barbados you have taken barbados of the split

2nd because of the sugar revenues and this is something that's going to persist as a very important interest for european states up until the very end of slavery. to support the sugar war the city lent money on a colossal scale in the midst of these steel and glass buildings the 2 pillars of the english economy that financed the slave trade are still prominent on the london skyline. at the heart of the financial district is the venerable bank of england the world's 1st central bank. a couple of blocks away is britain's most powerful insurance company the prestigious lloyd's of london atlantic slave traders had to take on heavy debts to charter their ships without an insurance company most would risk ruin on their 1st expedition would be to do with. the slave traders made investments as if playing

a game of poker the wrists were high but if successful the return would far outweigh any other type of investment insurers like lloyds had everything to gain by participating in this game of chance a successful expedition could yield up to 3 times the initial stake in the lloyd's archives little evidence remains of the profits amassed by insuring these high risk expeditions most accounting records were lost in a fire in $838.00 the same year that slavery was abolished in the british caribbean . ports had to adapt to this initial scramble for africa and the caribbean in london blackwall became the slave trade principal wharf all manner of goods were sold here precious fabrics jewels porcelain weapons and brandy all bought on credit with the bank's money a giant port complex gradually evolved a city within

a city entirely devoted to this new business. following london in 1663 other seaports brush to take advantage of this lucrative trade beyond copenhagen now rochelle bristol not want liverpool more deal and work from all over europe slave ships set sail for africa when i began to see slave ships leaving from not just liverpool unarmed but from every port in the atlantic and soon as a port becomes big enough to contemplate the transoceanic poor edge there's a good chance that voyage is going to be a slave trade voyage like $170.00 separate courts tiny places today they've got no idea that once upon a time they send a slave board simply to support in the channel islands charming place and yet it's a slave trade pored. over

a period of 2 centuries more than 3 and a half 1000 expedition set sail from french ports more than half of them left from the part of not the main french hub of triangular trade. coop the sculpted figures along the kid a life force or fatal island are reminders of an era when the great slave trading families displayed their pride in being the main architects of the city's wealth it was they who made no want france's leading commercial ports. wealth came from slavery there were negotiators ship owners and all those who produced foodstuffs to keep the. flour producers fabric producers hardware producers would you. agree to let. the atlantic ports also generated wealth for areas that stretched very far inland as virus of leo in the case of nuncio by exalting their.

goods were also transported along revis relief. so the wealth that slavery produced was essential for france. 1669 from now want more don't and after slavery money flowed back up reverse too. and. it had such repercussions on inland areas that it became a national objective look at the 14th knew that to win the sugar war he would need a powerful fleet. the king ordered the construction of $500.00 galleons the atlantic became the theater of a naval war between france england and the netherlands a bitter fight in which each sunken ship was a total loss for the respective countries economy. it was very

expensive to build and equip a $74.00 gun ship and pay its crew. if not more ultimately who bore the cost of financing these wars the financing of ships and assholes was mainly foetid buying french presence also isn't. the slave trade fleets were protected 16000 galleons were already protecting dutch commercial ships while the 3000 light in fast royal navy cruisers terrified their adversaries friends paled in comparison to these armadas. each nation needed a fortress in africa if it were to compete in the atlantic race just like on the caribbean islands these forts were the bastions of the triangular trade. as military bases they offered a secure store for bartered goods and captives before departure by scene.

in less than 80 years 43 such forts were built from senegal to the niger delta every stone every being every element of masonry was transported by boat from europe and. most of these fortresses are built by state individual capitalists or even groups of trade in capitalist did not have that kind of money in order to build those sorts of fortresses the english already had 13 the dutch 10 the danish 5 even the prussians with their 3 forts surpassed the french on the gold coast in today's gonna the fantail and ashanti rented europeans plots of land to build their forts the europeans established trading posts and fortresses all along the atlantic coast from the a way territory to the congo kingdom equitorial africa became the world's principal source of slaves. in this

accounting document written in 1688 we learned that over an 8 year period it shipped 60783 slayings. each cost the royal african company 8 to 12 pounds sterling the equivalent of between 950 and 1500 euros today they were all bought with trade goods the demand for slaves was so high that the europeans pressured their african partners to help them plan and rationalize and industrialized their system of mass deportation. slaves were often bought on credit. and sold out mount throughout european ships would calm they would have a whole cargo full of textiles different metal wear or. tobacco whatever and they these would be given to the local merchants extended to

them on credit and then the merchants would go inland with those goods and buy slaves and come back the biggest impact was the level of of. the level of violence the rising level of violence the level of uncertainty. that permeated society everywhere and also the opportunity for new new big. 2 emerged new powerful leaders somebody gets ahold of more firearms somebody gets more aggressive they build their own personal chiefs of those suddenly they're powerful. among these leaders was on to read to a major frickin traitor from calabar in what is now nigeria in his diary he spoke of the methods he used to terrorize captives kidnapping detention and murder.

about 4 am i caught up awful rain i walked up to the city trying to pass where i met all the guns and. we got ready to cut off hats. at 5 am when they got decapitation slade's. 50 and it's found that. very clearly these sacrifices were in town to as a form of terrorism that were meant to make it very clear to the population who was

the boss and who was naught them very much the way. the mafioso type organizations . behave in terms of making sure that the members of the association respect whoever the godfather it was and if anybody steps out of line they can be assassinated or killed and so they don't step out of line obviously. for the benefit. of a handful of enterprising and unscrupulous profiteers the entire continental economy was transformed on the coast african brokers knew all of the inner workings of the sugar plantation. a slave ship from some a little the 7 feet docked at loango in the kingdom of congo. it's captains drawings provide exceptional details of the negotiations between europeans and africans the merchants from the coast knew that the matthiessen

a fix captain was in a hurry he had to arrive in the west indies before harvest time this was the time of year when slaves sold best and when the best sugar was available so they deliberately prolonged negotiations to drive prices up $312.00 captives were rounded up in $116.00 days. he said my feet arrived in sound amounting now haiti one year after leaving france only 9 captives had perished a good ratio for the crew who celebrated their success. in the drawings of a matisse afaik no allusion to the slaves suffering appears they were dehumanised shadows tallied and lined up like barrels at the bottom of the hole to. the transportation of human beings turned into a nightmare. it's very important to understand that

violence on board slave ships would be used electively another words no captain wanted to kill the entire allotment of people on board because that voyage wouldn't have no profit so when there was resistance what the captains would do is organize a spectacle in which a small number of people would be executed and if st. leave vicious horrific ways as a means of terrorizing everybody else all of the enslaved to be forced to come up on deck in order to view these executions one slave ship surgeon said that frequently the decks the main deck of the ship would just be completely awash in blood and the aftermath of one of these failed revolts revolts were common and they were almost always suppressed but the captains would use that situation to kill a small number in order to intimidate everybody else sending the message that if

you resist us this will be your fate. and i've also suggested that the slave ship created categories of race for example the multi ethnic africans who are loaded on board a slave ship go aboard as ebo or fun day or men day but when they come off the ship they are unloaded as members of a quote negro race end quote and the same parallel process goes on among the sailors these motley crew zzzzz they are english irish also in some cases african they leave their european port but when they arrive on the west coast of africa they become the white people.

on caribbean beaches captives disembarked as blacks in a world dominated by whites. co-opt providing an outlet for a society founded on violence and race the carnival maintains the memory of the days when the super industry imposed its. rhythms rights and seasons and set the pace for island life. 2 was it was an era when drummers announced the end of winter and the resumption of cutting when fleeing slaves covered themselves in my classes to help prevent their recapture. 63 inch changeless clear vision what progressively distinguished atlanta it slavery what made it different from

other systems of slavery was the construction of race silicon solution a house simplist it was precisely this superimposition that developed between physical appearance with its own term and status few nikita behind them at the extremities of this continuum of the both status and color there was the white master and the black slave. met it lisc love. so there little the term winds did not exist prior to slave societies. dead in the law in super sleep that's why it's developed specifically in the antilles this so you can see our vital this atlanta area was to the construction of the racial categories that we still use now is all we use them as though they hadn't changed throughout time when in fact they

have joy they thought it can loosen up a. race was a weapon of submission meant to carve into flash the supposed inferiority of some people and the infinite superiority of others. cut off from their roots and their families the black slaves were reduced to a servile mass without names and without orientation. the plantation was a machine that devoured its workforce it needed a constant supply of new arrivals land owners want to transform the slaves bodies into tools. on plantations working and torture were used to deprive them of their humanity. in this garden of torture the master's authority was absolute.

so you take for example a character like thomas this award and you can almost see in his diaries the escalation in the violence very has to mete out of the things he has to mete out to the enslaved to keep them working on the plantation. arrived as a foreman on the new plantation only 2 weeks ago. we had to carry out justice in a negro. and it's again. we see vinnie with him and patho salt and lime juice into his woman. ringback 3 days later the body of another snape who escaped with fortuitous cut off his head i mean the body in public thought was the only way to exert control of the neo cons. and this is

a family reason was adopted by all the colonies. in force and condition of the negro not relent to his being hated only strengthen barton's and hold them back. of. these kinds of tortures and these kinds of punishments this kind of brutality actually became commonplace on these plantations where you had white people working out among armies of slaves who they feared they could not control the sound of the screaming and the stench of the burning bodies that also became a fundamental feature of the jamaican landscape right that is what plantation society is it's that smell it's that sound it's that fear and terror that's

compelling people to work and to obey their masters there's no way to separate vaca and of terror from the labor on the plantation from the profits that that labor produced. but the plantation owners could not squander the slaves they had bought on credit the state had financed the shipment of slaves and wanted its return on investment. the plantation society relied solely on market forces violence was a necessary cost and thus included in balance sheets it took 4 years to amortize the price of a slave after that they were valuable only insofar as that they could hold a machete this was the price to pay so that europe could each. i don't think that it's possible to reduce another human being to a mere cipher to

a mere extension of your will and vats where a lot of the tension and possibilities for slave revolt and resistance come in because if my purpose is to subject you absolutely. but you can never be subjected absolutely we're always going to have conflict at the extremes of human domination even in slavery we find there is always resistance there is always tension and there's always struggle. throughout the caribbean escaped slaves took refuge in the heart of the most remote forests they were called marooned slaves in reference to the spanish word cement on which originally designated cattle that had escaped into the wild in these isolated places they began to organize resistance in jamaica they included captain leonard parkinson the leader of the maroons and grandy nani and ashanti known as the maroon priestess. in barbados rusa and igbo war chief

through the rebellion the insurgents found a name and identity. all throughout the mountainous areas of jamaica you have these communities of formally in slave people who have escaped and they learn the territory they learn to cultivate crops there and they learn to fight as well harassing plantations taking gunpowder getting new recruits and maintaining building communities in the mountains where this becomes increasingly a problem for the british and by the 2nd 3rd decade of the 18th century it breaks out into major war and the british aren't even sure they're going to be able to maintain the island. the uprising spread to other islands and then to the coast of africa wars raids in the slave capturers hunting grounds notably in senate gambia

where muslim religious leaders blamed slave trade goods for corrupting society. these outbursts of violence plunged the sugar industry into a crisis which also had an impact in europe a growing number of voices expressed outrage at the horrors of the slave trade. in all of the major slave trading ports everybody knew the truth of the slave trade and i'll tell you one way in which they knew it. slave trading vessels had a very specific smell and you could never get the smell out of the wood. in fact it was said in charleston south carolina which was the major port for the importation of slaves into north america that when the wind was blowing off the water a certain way you could smell was a slave ship before you could see it what that meant was that in every port

these these ships these ships of horror that stank of human misery. that this was all very well known. suddenly information about the slave trade and its characteristics the experiences of enslaved africans in the course of the middle passage came increasingly to public attention in the late seventy's eighty's abolitionists campaign this place particular emphasis on the middle passage that's when polemical arguments began and many pamphlets being published on the case being augie slave owners realizing for the 1st time that they're going to have to make an argument about the legitimacy of colonial flavor and. 'd 'd

within this context in 783 a court case involving lloyds and the slave trade company enjoyed significant publicity in britain. abolitionists used it as a platform to reveal the slave traders barbaric practices. the so-called zol massacre which took place in the early seventy's eighty's was a very important event it basically consisted of a slave ship captain throwing a group of living africans overboard in an effort to collect insurance money now this was this voyage went on and it only came to court a couple of years later because one of the engines the insurance company refused to pay and when this event came to court and abolitionist name granville sharp shows

up at this court case and the question being were they actually property or not and shops i answer is this is mass murder. this is just plain mass murder this is not about property rights these are human beings. ringback ringback and the judge actually upheld the insurance companies which refused to pay the insurance on the the murdered africans and that was vaso who brought this to the attention of granville sharp it was ground 0 sharp then turned it into a big issue that helped to mobilize public opinion in britain. was one of england's most fervent abolitionists born in nigeria he was deported to the caribbean at the age of 11 at the age of 21 he managed to buy his freedom while passing through england in his autobiography published in $789.00 he recounted his

experience of the middle passage down in the hold and delivered an impassioned plea against slavery massa held up a mirror to the nations that had reduced him to the rank the marketable object gentleman. such a tendency as a slave trade to the boss man's mind and heart in them to every feeling of humanity . it is a fate an idea of his mistaken avarice but across the milk of human kindness and turns it into god. which violates that 1st natural right of mankind equality and independence and gives one man a dominion over his fellows which god could never intend. yet how mistaken is the avarice even of the planters our slaves more useful by being thus humbled to the condition of brutes and they would be suffered to enjoy

the privileges of man. when. but it's time to starve of us our spoke out in 7897700000 africans had been deported 1000000 from senegal india. 3.4000000 from beneath and beyond. 3.2000000 from central africa and close 273000 from eastern africa. while david eltis and the emory university research team had established precise deportation figures the income amassed by the slave trade is still being estimated

historians are trying to assess today how much profit the slave trade yielded for banks and insurance companies. the slave trade is not only. the foundation of american capitalism it is a foundation of all of european in atlantic capitalism because it created this massively profitable economic system that link the countries of north western europe to the americas through the plantation system the great scholar activist c.l.r. james pointed out that the slave system created the greatest planned accumulation of wealth the world had ever seen up to that moment in time and this of course is a very important part of western prosperity. between 1633 and britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 english and then british

companies deported 2000000 755830 african captives most of them died on the plantations more now from working in the sugarcane fields all of this for the sake of profit. in 2007 london's westminster abbey hosted a bicentennial commemoration of the abolition of the slave trade in the presence of then prime minister tony blair and queen elizabeth the 2nd one cast human rights activists toil in a b 2 disrupted the ceremony. certain. to in the little. bit little were not followed in the end were destroyed nervous system. that the better not to listen.

to. what. the. ah. ok we're going to go. to plantation owners and slave traders could not accept losing the hard won caribbean the immensely lucrative driving force behind the rise of global capitalism. at the beginning of the 19th century they sought to thwart the wave of protest in civil society by that time slavery a practice that dated back to the dawn of humanity seemed immoral and to belong to the past britain had understood this before the others and was thus one step ahead

of its rivals. it was preparing itself for world domination. a colorful bunch of. good states portugal canada with a common goal making cargo shipping sustainable with wood instead of steel and wind and solar power instead of heavy oil. the world's largest emissions free cargo ship

is being built in coastal rica. 3000. and 30 minutes on t.w. . migrant workers europe's main packing industry. thousands. from a come to germany on a decent living. and on the romanian job market the gap is filled by asian workers by a social dumping. exists by desperation. close up. 90 minutes w. children. come to school one giant problem and when you're in no mood to see a picture you. need to be chasing a lady feeling that i'm thinking. how will climate change affect us and our

children. and e.w. dot com slash water. this is news coming to you live from berlin deadlock in israel's 4th election in 2 years long serving prime minister benjamin netanyahu claims victory but exit polls suggest he'll fall short of a majority and will have to enter a tricky coalition talks also coming up myanmar set for more empty coop protests today amid reports that security forces should.