ah, ah, i'm see from beardsley in berlin. volkswagen faces a backlash after a company executive says he found no signs of forced labor during a visit to the company's factory in china's shane john region where the un has documented extensive human rights abuses. also on our show plants for a deep sea port on george's black sea coast take on new significance of chinese video sharing app, tick tock on government mobile phones, a canada, and the european parliament parliament announce similar bands this week as the latest chapter in a years long dispute over a popular network with more than a 1000000000 monthly users. canada has band tick tock from government phones saying the chinese app carries an anal employees from downloading the app in future. were making the decision that up for government of employees for government equipment, and it is better to not have them access tick tock because of the concerns other

people have in terms of safety. this may be a 1st step. it may be chinese own video platform from all government issued devices . contractors must comply with in 90 days. the white house said on monday, the decision. news, literally, she has the united states, the world's number one superpower, is so afraid of a mobile phone application that young claun security, abusing national power and unreasonably suppressing the companies of other countries. when he in 2020 to take talkin. last week, the european commission told both members of parliament and employees that they must remove the app from any private devices on which apps of the commission are you on whether that effort is all for naught, it does look a little bit crane are for a take time out there with our, you know, like bite dance continues to in the, like the you, as i, as we can see, like it's even like considering like passing a law that would allow biden,

to have the authority to expand. there would be a way, more serious problem for tick tock. and one thing i should like really on mention is that actually like, even if beijing is ned, are saying that so when could we you instagram and facebook as the social media? oh, so our band and china and so they think they're chinese government is having like, something like a double standard like holy, huge and lead. they're the world's 2nd largest car maker. volkswagen is facing a backlash after senior executive visitors factory and sheen john china and said that he saw worse labor and she and john especially of the muslim league or minority prompting many western companies to abandon the region. but volkswagen isn't the only car company, so operating there, a reservist, hard for brands not to benefit from forced labor if they're producing in the she john region ya called by this v w executive. he said the workers

there appeared happy to work there. and he saw no evidence of force labor. how do you look at this given the research that you've done? oh, hi steven. the thanks for having me, i think is problematic to say that the parking fee waivers, any kind of shows no forced labor in the region because it is quite impossible to talk to weavers, free leave without their free or of punishment or penalty. oh, so i would say that deposed to for saber suite supply chain. is it fair to say that force? labor is so widely disseminated and she john from the research that we've seen, they won't. yes. surely because there is opposite of 3000000 of waivers or other priorities have been class or as the condition of release,

it can occur in a satellite factory built around residential areas. you can also be transferred to a factory or farm in conditions, threats of internal or imprisonment, harassment by labour agents, compulsory ideological trainings, among others. with me just give you one example while doing the research i encountered force labor facilities in my home town. homo mobile workers miss important milestones of their low tiny state. i lost contact with my father in 2018, and there are many people i know are in different kinds of ownership and the movies . i cannot, i cannot think, you know, price of doing business and the world's largest car market for these car makers briefly if you can. oh yes, sure. there are large amount of companies that are moving into the rigor region. and most of the companies, including public and private companies, are,

are kind of quiet, kept the supply chain includes. and there are kind of complicit me, their social responsibility commitments are from public and private companies operating in the region. all right, that's jarquin oleo at sheffield harlem university. thank you very much. thank you . and now to some of the other global business stories making headlines. electric car maker tesla is headed to mexico. the company says it will invest $5000000000.00 in a new assembly plant. in the northern part of the country, the mexican government is elsewhere transforming a supply chain takes time just as companies trying to move goods between europe and china over the past year. or the overland root, known as the northern corridor, has become problematic. it goes from germany, mostly by rail, through poland, belarus, russia, and kazakstan all the way to sure. as result, europe's attention is increasingly turning here to the middle transport cord worth,

which runs through the black sea, and that's put more emphasis on a plant deport comes in every day truck driver, topical blashley drives along george's narrow roads. today's trip is by the infamous records pass from the george and black sea port, a new i will bring you which indies for us to drive more safely than it won't be as many accidents and traffic jams was out the highway as part of china's new silk rolled, even if the well bank finance the section crossing the mountains, child locals are only employed as laborers for work, like directing traffic for 7 year olds a day. i. it doesn't bother us. we have work. most of the village residents here support the construction of the road. we have work, so we're not complaining. george, an american company was supposed to build a deep sea port here, an important hub in the middle corridor. the silk wrote

a direct link between the e. you and china that would, by passing our lives would be better if they were a port, not jessina clia, but it would be good for all of georgia. i still hope it will be built on. you don't like it. you don't have my head it. but nothing is planned. many georgians believe the deep sea porting, anatolia is being hampered by the russian secret service, which they say, but also glassware or jet as well. so not really, russia is blocking on a clear port because it wants to hurt the e. you go, oh, it is important for us to set up the middle east that we go to don't go to recorded the book on our truck drive much a book. i hope the deep sea port in an ikea will still be built so that he can keep working and that's our show will be back later with more headlines in the meantime . you can find out more about these and other stories online. d, w dot com slash business. check us out on youtube as well, or the d. w. news can and seen beardley. thanks for watching.

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