the, the, this is the, the, the news coming to live from berlin. russia's president receives a state, welcome in north korea, vladimir putin and that's in killing yank for his 1st visit in 24 years. laska says it wants to re shake decades of russia, north korea relations by strengthening time. also in coming up, these really army approves plans for a military operation against has pulled out militia in southern lebanon. tensions between the 2 have flared since the october 7 terror attacks and the subsequent war in gaza. and a major court case, and in a major court case in ecuador of japanese firm faces, allegations of modern day slavery. we have an exclusive report,

the hello, i'm terry martin. good to help you with this. russian president vladimir putin has been given a state welcome in north korea as he arrived for his 1st visit there in 24 years. 15 is seeking to boost diplomatic ties and is looking for support for his war in ukraine. north korea is, is already a major supplier of the munition for that. more for north korean leader kim jump on . it's a chance to call them a ties with a powerful ally against the united states and south korea. the russian president is north korea up to 24 years. it's a visit that reflects and those could be as growing and strategic importance for russia. as such, p o young pulled out all the stops for that most high profile visitor is

north korea is believed to be providing badly needed weapons, who rushes will in ukraine. motivation for putin to keep the country close. peel young is also embracing the russian data with open arms. undisputed russia is more isolated internationally. he's expanding corporation with the leader ever provide. state must go and pre own young, denied trading weapons, which is banned under united nations sanctions. but west and officials claim in return for weapons. moscow is delivering technology for north korea and miss out a new t programs. it's a situation that's reading alone, bells right across the west to things we since the north korea on demonstrates unconfirmed. so that's a close alignment between russia on the old sort of tired and states like multiple

now, but also try and law on the, on the wrong. and this also demonstrates that our security is not the regional it's, it's global life happens in europe. mathis, for a showing what happens in a show month just for those must go denies to criticism. after the pump in 70, in a face to face meeting with came vladimir putin signed to north korea for a quote. he said it's a new document, it'd be pad, richard form the basis of the 2 countries, long term relations. young young and must go with coldwell allies. but the relationship deteriorated after the savior union disintegrated. and now rest in a solution has to them close together again, rush it because of it's already ukraine and north korea because of its nuclear weapons program. and that makes many western powers extremely anxious.

short while ago i spoke about this with eric bob bock, he's a security and foreign policy expert, focusing on north and south korea at the german institute for international security affairs. i asked him how north korea stands to benefit from closer ties with russia. worked for north korea, a closer relationship. now with russia, i'm the one hand, but also with china brings a numerous benefits to north korea. it's so to say north korea's version of the risking strategy. balancing the very high end, the very close relations to attempt to china, to very high dependencies. you have. yeah. and so i know i know with a closer relationship with russell, this is one aspect and the 2nd aspect is for many years north korea. so the new kerry facing the, with the us as part of it survive the strength of c 2 maintained receive stability . and this apparently has no change to a new type of strategies that 6 the 2 kinds of felons and form for closer relations

to restaurant in china. how is this meeting between kim and protein being viewed in south korea? eric or that south korea is certainly a very concerned. so we expect to see a strategic partner form. this is the word. so for us and of course of north korea . i don't think this will end in a military alliance, which the 2 countries hits during the cold war periods between north korea and does the then. so if you have union, this was changed in a new agreement in the 2000, which was a rather balanced agreement, which sets hotly and the security probation been focused, much more economical ties the new agreement. now, of course will also make the con no me. the issue was the certainly the center. but

what we will not most likely see in the agreement, the strategic corporation, which of course is officially still illegally under us security council resolutions that still these things will have more in discipline, more in the background. and this is certainly very concerning what's, what's happening is also very concerning for other countries in the region. do you think that the defense cooperation between russia and north korea will change the security posture of countries like japan and even the u. s. you know, in the weight already head uh, it already happened this way. disclose the coordination in the mo, militaristic cost of north korea in the last couple of years has already led to a much close that's related to the corporation. input the nation, the old website and the security aspect, and the relations between japan. so through and through us, we see a debate in south korea still ongoing. even if this is not realistic in the search

and short term about the south korean development of its own nuclear weapons, even. so as i said, this is not the short term thing which will happen, but these debates already. so how does the, how the security could cost us already begin to shift in the region? what does it say about russia, eric, when moscow has to depend on north korea for the munitions, it needs to continue as an invasion of ukraine. well, russia needs to affiliate zip codes. so just so to say in, in, north korea has something to offer. the russians needs in a way it's, it's a kind of a logical corporation because there is also know the soonest of the 2 north korean weapons fits into the rest of the systems in north korea needs the monthly, the so in a way for us, so this was a quite a natural thing. so to say to,

to do that, of course, it certainly shows the dresser, node tries to force relationships, especially with other author retiree in countries, in a way, to also signal it to the us and its allies, that any stretch of isolating noise. the isolating, russel will not be successful. eric, thank you very much for talking with us today. that was eric bob bought from the german institute for international insecurity fairs. thank you very much. i sketch up on a few other stories making headlines around the world today. heavy rainfall is triggered, widespread flooding in bangladesh, the incessant rains calls the sewer my river near bangladesh is northeastern border to rise, inundating the surrounding areas. local officials say some 37000 people are stranded in rural areas. fire the military. i munition depot in chads capital in jemina

has triggered a series of explosions. government officials say at least one person has been killed and several wounded president has promised an investigation into the fire. who is present you a bite has announced a new program to provide a path to citizenship. for half a 1000000 migrants were married to us citizens and had been in the country for more than a decade. earlier this month, divide administration cracked down on asylum seekers at the southern border with mexico. israel's army has given the green light to plans for a possible offensive into southern 11 on rach, ending up tensions between israel and the pro rainy of his beloved militia. the is really foreign minister, re threatened to destroy, it has pulled out if it comes to an all out war. the statement came after hezbollah hinted it could attack the northern is really port city of haifa released drone images, which it said showed areas around the city is really army released this footage

which they say shows airstrikes against several hezbollah targets in southern 11 on clashes between these really army and hezbollah have been near daily since the start of the war in gaza. in october. earlier i started jerusalem, correspond to rebecca river is about the likelihood of a cross border in offensive by israel, by the israeli army as well. just how likely is almost impossible to say we've complete certain t, terry, but the problem bill etc, is rising every day as we see the rhetoric and threats from both sides also rising . and now we see this a plan by the idea of saying that it has been green lights. now that follows visits by both prime minister benjamin netanyahu and defense minister. you have golan, who to the north and recent weeks. and both have said to the, to the idea of soldiers up there to be prepared that they, you know,

i certainly preparing, i'm willing to launch a, a grace, her full, a full on conflict with 11 on we've hezbollah in southern lebanon. and should they deem it necessary? and as you mentioned there in your lead in these images, purportedly showing a has been drawn and that has come in and captured of several sites in northern 11 known that they potentially them would threaten to attack about strong then returning. if it is indeed true to southern 11 on and then they may go to release the 4 digits is certainly a threat from that side. and now we're seeing, you know, great to ramping up a rhetoric from the israeli side as well. now, there has been a board of disputes between israel and 11 on so many years and i'm also talk, stay in the u, as in boy has been trying to broker a deal between the 2 sides for, for some time. now we are seeing that those as we see this threat since october 7, these needs 80 skirmishes escalate. it's certainly looking like

a full blown conflict could be very possible. certainly i was up in the northern part of israel recently speaking to residents of many of whom 70000 has been evacuated from that northern border region. and they said that they wouldn't return home, or some of the ones that i spoke to said that they would wouldn't return home unless they was in or out. conflict with has led to push it back further away from the board, or that they simply wouldn't feel safe, even if they was a political solution. attentions in the region are extremely high. many are worried about conflagration consuming the middle east. what could help de escalate tensions between israel and 11 on, at this point with everything diplomatic, diplomatic efforts ongoing. certainly since the early days of october, when things kicked off on the 8th of october with his blah responding to the, the, with the war and guns are saying that they were going to do what they could to tie

off his right resources. yeah, the result is rather in the knowles, so we've been seeing diplomatic efforts to try to stop the spreading into a wider conflicting with the us, a bringing warships into the mediterranean to try to, to prevent anything from sparking spilling all over. but those diplomatic efforts haven't reached any final conclusion of the, the us and boy that i mentioned before, i must help staying. he was recently just this week in israel talking with leaders here trying to figure out ways that they could be some kind of political solution. he says, a political solution solution is definitely possible. he's now in lebanon. he's been speaking the, we'd latest from the lebanese government trying to work out how best they could come to this political solution. but so far we haven't seen any for it says that labor that has been successful. we certainly haven't seen a downplaying or a coming down of tensions in that region. in fact, quite the opposite. so the received wisdom of people you speak to here is it's not

a matter of if but a matter of when terry reckon thank you very much. the, the use correspondence original rebecca rivers to ecuador. now we're landmark court ruling is unexpected. on a number of labor exploitation and slavery cases, agricultural workers say they've suffered decades of abuse on several plantations producing plant fiber for japanese company for coll. know a federal court is set to decide whether 3 or 4 color employees should face trail time. the, the use latin america corresponding nicole reese reports. so if you look at the extra event in his lake, you can see caustic lament the chavez lives in pay. you broke it while working on a plantation and it says his employer didn't give him proper medical care. he was operating the machine like this when the of a call 5 is he was processing court, his leg,

the injuries from that end of the accidents left him disabled. but he says the depend based company protocol which exported the product, never compensated to him. he says that was little consideration for safety and no support for those who were injured. definitely feel my illness with my legs. i only feel like i'm hot for life and then when you incapacitated, they would tend to not know you anymore. they don't help it tool because they don't know you almost, you're not with anything. if you say you incapacitated, that's the thing about photo. calico of chavez is from ecuador santo domingo region is just one of 358 was from across the country. we're suing the company in court. the accusations include negligence, lack of safe working conditions, health care, and clean drinking water is a huge case, which also includes claims of child labor and modern slavery center. can yonah says she started working here when she was just 6 years old and spent decades and inhumane conditions? she told us she gave birth to 7 children on the plantation with no medical care. my

daughter, it was very tough. we had to work during pregnancy with our big valley and we got used to it. sometimes we'd be working with a cyber right up until birth pain started learning, lacking maternal leave, she until the women golf back to work directly after this phone. the work is show us how they would harvest fee of a cost for tuning into growth, paper and fibers. they claim, not only was it dangerous, they usually had no breaks or days off. if they didn't work, they wouldn't be paid home campaign to say more than 80 percent of the work is we've been extreme poverty headquarters government to testify during the trial against photocopy. why? this is what the labor minister told us. forgetting to have video to previous governments, including the ministry of labor, didn't stop the situation that from my point of view is one of the most emblematic

because here we are talking about slave labor. in the case of food who car was. it was all there actually for that that was executed of a car export of photo car was car and manage. it insists the workers always had social security and medical care. what he says, responsibility for those things was possibly in the hands of local contractors until 2018 and you'll be ok in place. the company could have had a close relationship with the contractors to find out if the problems are processing the fiber optics. he's eligible for that is something that could have been improved due to the idea of life, but to speak about slavery unit essential moines is very, very, very, fall festival. the bulk of say they lost childhood education and health and also to see we have suffered at this company. so we did mind just at the moment . at the end of the day, the judges to our fathers and mothers either left was of those judges and the piano

court. and the constitutional court could make historic decisions, setting out responsibility and accountability football because right and equitable for more on the problem of labor exploitation. i'm joined now by jessica turner with the human rights organization, anti slavery international. thanks for being with us. jessica, what do you make of that case in ecuador, we just learned about in our report as well. everyone deserves to be out today and freedom as they have to choose their employment. i'm watching safety because we've just seen really isn't the case that so many people there are millions of people around well who were in prostate by social kings. in this case is really horrifying case with customers. that was my bravery. so i'm fighting for justice. i'm really ash that the case is contagious with the so that they can access the remedy that they really did the i mean as the ecuadorian government and she so those that

really would hold and prevent this kind of thing from happening and the teacher and then they'll talk businesses accountable when homes like this, but it's a shocking and hiring case and one that i honestly say range not so we are very familiar with these kinds of cases. it's horrifying to see what's being expressed in this way. now when we talk about modern slavery, what does that mean? really? what does modern slavery typically look like today in a globalized economy? well, once avery can take many different forms, including for st warehouse and may be forced to work against and will have the wages with how not to dance back in safety and dignity. but assessing what to say for years when someone's freedom is taken away by someone else for the past is an expectation. there are millions of people and for cyber around well, the global estimate, someone and say, agree, an estimate doesn't renew the 50000000 people currently in northern same rates

around 21000000 as those are being exploited in full saber in the private sector. and also in the states in post falls deva dr. form and full state. the government forces it's people to work against. i will and the numbers you're mentioning are astonishing. what kind of international regulation is in place to tackle this problem? it is the regulation having any effect, as well as you can probably tell the noise of nowhere and strong enough to be able to both prevent working, save me from happening fast, spaced the whole, such as a poor people when they have been harmed. whether it be in a business supply chain or by an individual there, awesome initiatives of the united states has recently introduced in the last few years introduced and import, controlled to prevent goods, major source eva from entering the united states market. and the easy was on the cost of introducing to really groundbreaking rules. and that would do is huge and

not to tackle full size, but in business the climate change, but really increased as low as i know when they're stronger. and what this case really highlights is that what is needed to be able to access just as an access remedy when they have been harmed by a business supply chain. and that's where we really see that the lowest, i'm really no one is strong enough. so what is should be able to hold accountable company? what ever they are headquartered, or economy because of share a global supply chain that's really not possible in many cases. what can people do when they find themselves working in slave like conditions or who have relatives who are, where should they turn to for help? jessica, without really depends countries by country. so as you say, range national, we encourage people to support the signs and more than slavery so that they can understand what it might look like if a person isn't more than savory. and in the united kingdom, we have a modern say, very health line. but as i say that this is country by country,

i'm not really bothering with us that we need the stronger law so that the labor conditions in a country are much more conducive to someone to be able to seek help if they feel like they're being home rather than facing any form of repercussion, i'm being afraid to come for the standing home. so that's really what we would as to see. there's so many countries, whether justin feet long enough, protections in place. so you're suggesting that modern day slavery or labor exploitation is very widespread. are there certain parts of the world where it's worse than others? yeah, well unfortunately, wouldn't say very unforced. avery is prevalent all around the world. so the global favorite index list of estimated numbers of people in when we say rate, and it's a really shocking shelton report. there are some countries whether more people estimate it's been more than say, avery, but i would really stress that in most countries around the world and every country has a problem with one savers, even in germany, there's an estimate of 47000 people in modern savory and in the united kingdom,

around a 130000 people. so while there are many countries that face more of a times, wait for say, but i'm more than say for i would really stress it every single country needs to be asking to try and tackle this problem. jessica, thank you very much for your insights. that was jessica turner from the anti slave from anti slavery international. thank you very much. i is now to the united states and the head of aircraft maker. boeing has apologized to relatives of victims killed in crashes involving the company's planes in 20182019 c . e o dave calhoun was giving testimony. a hearings in the us senate, 346 people were killed in accidents involving 2 of boeing's planes. they were caused by problems with the flight control software. families of victims who were killed into playing crushes involving boeing 737 max jets,

got the on capital hill. they are cooling for justice. for boeing, c o, david calhoun, to take responsibility for what they say, well known problems with across to that were in service. my being here is so that calhoun can see my father's face and the see the cost of his decisions. i mean, if we all here living in this nightmare that doesn't seem to end of what has now become our lives, why should the people who made decisions continue to not face the people that they let down? all i could think is the 6 minutes and 4 seconds. oh my daughter on the boeing 37 months. it's a great for me to know that will be there's lots of rough id, someone called their fans. so the whole bullying ceo

management did do here. my daughter cried the hearing began by calhoun, addressing the family members present. i would like to apologize on behalf of all of our going associates spread for past due for your loss before he saw to face the grinning by sensitive occasions will come door. i think the truth is mr. calhoun, you're not focused on safety. you're not focused on quality. you're not focused on transparency. all of this is in the record. boeing's ongoing production problems with in the spotlight again in january this year. off to a dual panel fellow from the alaska airlines. boeing 737 plane made to flight. calhoun defends bearing safety records and denies obligations that the company ignored concerns of whistle blowers. but little may could say there is overwhelming

evidence that the us justice department should push to prosecution against boeing. now, soccer and turkey fans and germany have celebrated a winning start for their team at the euro. 24 tournament turkey b, georgia, 31 in one of the most truly matches so far. that victory settle jubilant seeds in the city of thoughtless where the match was played. germany has a large turkish migrant community, making this something of a home match for the turkey fans. here's what some of them had to say. i couldn't. i think it was great. it was very entertaining. i never got bored. i thought it was great. and yeah, i'm very happy we would have it, we can assess stuff, but we turn things around in the 2nd, then this is the 31. when when the full section is say number associated with this, i have to wait, go on a, go. uh, we can do it, we can do anything. as you're watching dw, there's a up next to our environment,

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