when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. child trafficking and forced labor those are the allegations fault in a law suit against some of the world's a lot just chop the producers we hear disturbing testimonies. guzman and isa but are you were not given any. visible scars from a shift to accidents a dodge to close the government's quotas cut few to be a legal ruling that ministers misused emergency power was. israel's prime minister proposes naming cities and proximity to the gates coronavirus to stimulate the country's ongoing and not kill a should come pay and i mean of the some say finite violates privacy rights. and convince the people it's not like you force them to do violate human rights to

a group to hold all those people. on french filmmakers to prevent antti separatism po which critics say would unfairly target muslims opponents to the legislation rally to the days in paris. 247 live from the russian capital this is our team's national. story this hour is how the unsavory business practices of some of the wilds biggest producers have been placed under the spotlight it's off to international rights advocates filed a lawsuit alleging the snack giants including nestle malls call go well they force children as young as 11 to make the products and if trenker now looks into the not so sweet story behind your favorite chocolate bar. one chocolate cannot get more

dark i'm not talking about the percentage of milk but rather how much child labor is used in production human rights activists are suing a number of food giants on the u.s. market including the likes of mars the reason claims of knowingly benefiting from selling cheap cocoa harvested by child slaves these companies are working together through the world cocoa federation these companies are profiting handsomely from the very cheap cocoa that they get from using child slaves children who were kidnapped from mali and brought to go to war and floors to work. they came to duvall are between the ages of 11 and 14 and each of them ended up working for several years before they managed to escape so the activist are sounding the alarm over ivory coast a fact to think of the country exports more cocoa than anyone else on the planet

now providing about 2 thirds of the world's supply which makes it very likely that the regular chocolate bar you eat tastes of illegal child labor while you're chilling just picture what slavery is like here's what the activist heard from kids who escaped after years of misery he's of was told he would be fed and paid his wages at the end of the season he cleared brush with a machete apply pesticides and herbicides without any safety instructions or protective gear he slept on the plantation alone and a ragged top he was exposed to in 6 in snakes he was given very little food and was often hungry at the end of the year he was not paid repeated stories of disastrous safety food work and living conditions all to end up being fooled with pay. whose main tara and his suv baguio co was about 6 to 7 hours to the small isolated

village of samara duca they were not given any food and they were only able to drink water down to the river they did everything on the plantation without any protective gear but have visible scars from machete accidents an american government study found the number of children harvesting cocoa in west africa has gone up year on year and is now about $1600000.00 war then 95 per cent are engaged in hazardous work companies in the big chocolate business admit there's an issue with child labor and pretty much all claim they're doing their best to tackle it but in their defense they're trying to tell the critics how hard it is to monitor such a massive industry some businesses have built schools in africa many have come up with programs to avoid child abuse the activists however claim the programs could actually be used as schemes to create a positive image but hide the scale of slavery horrors good arrests and they roll

out these fake programs that sound good on paper the cocoa action plan the nestle cocoa plan and it's all just a lie what they're actually doing is continuing to change nothing except they create a small model program that monitors a tiny fraction of their supply chain so they can convince some consumers at least that they're making progress according to the lawsuit only 30 percent of the plantations are subject to scrutiny the rest are the so-called free zones where there is claimed to be 0 monitoring so even if the food giants efforts are indeed and at the right thing the reality of the cocoa business is darker than the darkest chocolate bar you've ever tasted. nestlé mas coghill are yet to respond to our request for comment on the allegations but we will get back to you

with any reply. in the meantime a court in the hague because ruled that the dutch government's controversial covert curfew is illegal that's after it's through forty's had misused a much since he powers the curfew will however remain in place until the government's appeal on friday but with all the details his artie's petone. well this 9 pm curfew that's been in place in the netherlands to try and stop the spread of covert nineteen's been one of the most controversial measures that's been put in across the european continent on tuesday a court in the hague said it was illegal the curfew is a far reaching violation of the right to freedom of movement and previously and indirectly limits among other things the right to freedom of assembly and demonstration the curfew is based on a law for emergency situations where there's no time for debate with parliament there was no such pressing need in this case no such pressing need seems to be one

of the key phrases in the ruling it relates directly to the fact that the number of covert cases in the netherlands has been declining steadily since mid december we did see demonstrations against this curfew demonstrations that turned violent clashes between protesters and police bordering on full blown riot in cities like amsterdam and rotterdam earlier this year but despite the court ruling on tuesday that curfew remains in place the reason for that is markedly to the dutch prime minister and his government they applied for an emergency injunction against the court ruling to allow the the curfew to remain in place so it could be debated further that injunction was granted mark routers says the curfew is necessary to get covert numbers down and keep them down a little the curfew is a means not a girl i can't emphasize that often enough the aim is to bring the virus under control so we can regain all our freedoms the reason the curfew was introduced and

that's not changed. well mr it is government working on ways to put in place new laws that would essentially allow the curfew to be rendered legal what we are seeing though when it comes to people on the streets in the netherlands is there's a fairly mixed opinion right now to whether this curfew needs to be gotten rid of or whether it needs to stay. that curfew makes absolutely no sense what they've done now they try to keep those students in but if those students go somewhere before 9 pm and only go out again in the morning that's fine too the curfew it was no use to have to ground those planes so that people can't travel because as long as people continue to travel they will continue to travel. i notice that people who don't have much to do with it have less trouble with karana i've had chronic myself so i know how bad it can be my mother died of it recently we also noticed there are

fewer flu symptoms fewer cold complaints also because people have less contact and stick to the rules in a better manner i think the responsibility should lie with every individual to me i didn't like the curfew myself but they didn't think they had to protest against it either it doesn't bother me personally because i'm not coming out of work after 9 pm anyway but i mean it matters for people like my brother who come back from work after 9 while this is all very messy legally it may well have huge repercussions for the more than 50000 people who've already been 100 fines for breaching the curfew by the police we are expecting more to come all 'd this it's up for debate on friday in the netherlands will see whether that curfew remains whether it goes or the route comes back in some different type of 4. israelis refusing to get a coronavirus job may soon find that names being given to your forties if that's

what the israeli prime minister has suggested raising concerns over possible privacy violations are discrimination israel has a world leading vaccination program but its recent loss of momentum has worried prime minister benjamin netanyahu the government is now considering taking a series of measures to boost uptake among the population they include launching a campaign against disinformation introducing new legislation and giving immunity passports to those inoculated. no in the sleepless the reason to go and get vaccinated is that we are now launching the green passport plan where 1st being vaccinated will be able to go enjoy the stats of the cinema sports events flights of broad restaurants and more so. while the new measures sparked protests outside the prime minister's residence in jerusalem with hundreds demanding his right to resignation take used him of mishandling the pandemic and of corruption the proposal to share the names of

unvaccinated people with authorities has raised concerns over privacy violations and possible discrimination and it's definitely been met with a mixed reaction on the streets. the government should. convince the people but not like you force them to do that this man or you have to be very vigilant for the. privacy of the citizens but over public health all measures should be taken of course you can't force someone to be vaccinated because that you can. forbid him to enter into to enter into closed places close areas where he can infect other people it's ok to do it to protect the safety and health of all the people around it's violating one right to protect those people. when israeli authorities are using a carrot as well as

a stick to encourage people to get vaccinated quite literally with a food truck outside a fact seems center in tel aviv giving out free pastries to sweeten the experience of those getting that chap's. in europe after weeks of heated debate the french national assembly house voted in favor of a bill against separatism it was proposed to cub radical islam off to a series of killings including the brutal beheading of a history teacher last october but critics say yet i'm fairly targets the country's 5700000 muslims lawmakers adopted more than 300 amendments to the bill still many m.p.'s are unhappy with the finished product. citizen art it is absolute silence and absence in other words the existing separate as they call it is not the same for everyone to detect it put the aim of this bill is precisely to reinforce our legislative arsenal to combat separatism and to allow the republic to act within

the rule of law not to a group or going to defend the principles of the republic verjuice religious extremism and its dramatic consequences is a serious challenge of our time well this law is aimed at in trying to found the use of the french for public includes a tightening of rules around things such as religious teaching to online hate and it will also see chance sentences doctors who perform genesee tests know the idea of this was to stop islam ists from creating communities that reject the country secular identity and also values of equality between men and women this is how the country's interior minister put it the bill provides concrete responses to the development of radical islam and ideology hostile to the principles and values on which the republic is founded this in law was debated for hours and hours in the national assembly with m.p.'s in balls and going through every section of it more

than a 100 hours was spent on that in fact and there were more than $300.00 amendments made that despite all ringback of that talking this year is seen by some as being kin to a witch hunt against muslims are secular in each presidential election particularly when muslims are the focus of debates leave us alone leave islam alone for over them only think we're going to do it if we really want to fight against terrorism what's going on today has nothing to do with this white on the contrary it will only make it worse and people have a minute it scares me it scares me for the youth because the problem is he yes we wear a veil yes we are mostly. and so what because we are muslims it doesn't mean that where is limits it is necessary to make the distinction now the bill has also sparked diplomatic problems and tensions with other countries you might remember that it was critical coverage in the english language media at the lead to present

my point of personally intervenes that he was unhappy about past and it's also starting ties with countries such as pakistan and turkey don't forget there were protests held across the muslim world there were even effigies of president map on it will burn such as the discontentment with this crackdown and the suggestions about this rule but analysts say it doesn't go far enough there is dissatisfaction with this new didn't include a ban on women wearing these are make a headscarf in areas such as university so it does seem that nobody was really happy with it by the fact this bill passed or that this 1st reading this bill had being in the works spoke very long time over a year ago president back when it talks about creating a bill like this but it really came it shop focused following a spate of islam at a terror attacks in france last year it was of course the brutal beheading of history teacher samuel patty and then 3 people been slain as a church in

a nice school really a time before it's to reflect and decide it was going to target this issue that keeps rearing its head it time and time again so would be really interesting to see how this plays out now let's not forget though this is just the 1st hurdle yes it's been represented by the deputies in the national assembly but it now has to go to the senate where there is a suggestion that it will be strengthened even more. so local news russian president vladimir putin has promised to protect the country's upcoming parliamentary elections to foreign interference and he may dot com and while addressing the state duma's party leaders picking up the story it's constantine russia. lattimer putin touched on a number of topics both in foreign and domestic politics but of course since it was a meeting with members of the russian parliament one was front and center at the

integrity of the upcoming election in russia's lower chambre that is scheduled for september this year the russian president specifically mentioned that it's important to make sure there is no foreign interference in the electoral process here in the. op people will decide the outcome of the vote and this choice must be protected from any attempts of foreign interference russia will not allow any blues to its sovereignty or its people's right to be the musters of their own law and also refer to the latest developments involving us social media giants i mean we all remember the removing of donald trump from twitter silencing the voices of conservative commentators online and so latimer putin made a point that those i.t. giants sometimes can disregard the law of a certain nation and impose their own policies in such a sensitive issue as freedom of speech. talking about so-called platforms i t companies this is

a serious challenge not only for us as we've seen what's happened in the us this division is happening around the world it's an ideological division this is clear if that's the way they behave in their own country how will they treat others seen as they consider themselves to be exceptional the russian president and members of the parliament also discuss the several foreign policy topics including the ricin shutdown of 3 russian speaking t.v. channels in ukraine which made it harder for millions of ukrainians who speak russian to access information in their own native language and that was done simply under the direct order of the ukrainian president and so putin is sad that this was another example of a double standard approach because the west that otherwise life stupid drama over freedom of speech issues in russia. was for some reason pretty much silent this time lattimer putin also touched on the north stream to gas pipeline that is still facing enormous opposition from the us and washington relentlessly pushing germany

the country that is supposed to receive natural resources over that pipeline to back away from the project which will. why is everything revolving around nord stream to they want to force russia to pay for this so-called ukraine geo political project that sits in fact it's all quite simple after the meeting larry putin also plans to see each of the parliamentary party leaders in person. in the us a new poll shows that support for thought american political party has reached an all time high according to the study significantly more than half of americans now support the idea it is in fact the highest rate since the question. being awesome nationally by the gallup polling group that was 18 years ago now while 46 percent of democrats say a 3rd party is needed which by the way is down from 52 percent in september interestingly

a raccoon tie of republicans favor of party but still trump supporters all willing to help him unite the ranks and i said mr president this mega movement needs to continue we need to unite the party trunk closes the way back in 2022 while we discuss the current state of u.s. politics with a panel of experts. i think that in the republican party you have 2 factions you have a conservative pro-life rump faction and then you have the establishment side yes doubtless from inside has really not been favorable to conservatives who see what's going on right now legislatively in america tantamount to basically having a you know party you basically have 2 progressive parties that are for big government they're for reckless spending and growing the size of government and all of these things that conservatives and libertarians have traditionally been against so i think the president's trumps basically his expulsion if you want to call it

that from the mainstream g.o.p. used the system is rigged against libertarians and green party and others the democratic and republican party do collude they do share the same philosophy they're both part of the same warfare welfare state they scare the same view toward our the real problem is that government that politics has playing too big of a role in the lives of americans has become our national sport the democrats often the green new deal that's a green party policy. universal health care those are green party policies free college tuition those are going public party policies but they get co-opted by the democrats but the democrats really can't implement those policies because of their allegiance to their donor base and that's the problem with both parties that whether or not a 3rd party is actually good for their cause is debatable because generally 3rd parties are seeing mostly as a spoiler in america building a movement of people who are non partisan who are beyond partisan what transpires

and the best way to break up some of the monopoly that's held that shared by the republicans and democrats who are completely completely corrupt state parties governor governor races even here locally city council mayor races so we're going to start from the bottom up we also have some lobbying the. we have to do it i know 3rd parties don't want to do that but there's legislation that needs to be changed to make it make u.s. elections more fair for everybody and if voters voters more choices at their brother. of the former u.s. president might have been acquitted but his supporters may not be off the hook on soft democrats announce plans for a $911.00 style commission to investigate the capital riots that stop parties don't quarter also coffee era witch hunt is on the horizon. repression want to one you got to know how to tell friend from foe back in the mccarthy era when people

accused of being a communist were being arrested left and right cold war conservatives had a system for how to find a red under the bed if a person defends the activity of the communist nations well consistently attacking the domestic and foreign policy of the united states she may be a communist now it seems the descendants of those hunters have become the hunted the democrats may have failed to impeach donald trump for a 2nd time but they are far from giving up their crusade against the former president and anyone who dares to support him our next step will be to establish an outside independent $911.00 type commission to investigate and report in fact and cost us relating to the january 6th 2021 domestic terrorist attack upon the united states capitol complex a $911.00 type commission what does that mean that the same torture program an arbitrary detentions that washington deployed in response to that terrible attack it's still not clear but some democrats are suggesting that a commission is just not enough and they're going to i believe it the department of

justice and the white nationalism or so make sure that they are understanding that the earliest of ages out there be radicalized because after all the democrats see no difference between the people who stormed the capitol building and members of al qaida or the islamic state the threat of domestic terrorism preceded that terrible day the biggest terror threat in this country comes from radicals on the far right primarily white men threats of violence from homegrown extremists are growing in the wake of the insurrectionist attack on the capital sound familiar when a great democracies destroyed it will not be from enemies from without but rather because of enemies from within the democrats are saying this is only the beginning this impeachment trial was just the start of holding donald trump accountable but that we need to make sure that we're doing accountability of anyone who incited encourage or committed acts of violence we haven't even gotten into the. of it and already some conservatives feel that they are in danger. children sure look.

we are armed guards. or places with a democrat controlled government dead set on bulldozing its opposition many are having a hard time imagining a future that doesn't resemble the political paranoia of 1950 s. america that's the wrong to come. january 6th in front of a couple both need to. look nice in afghanistan by some of the lads it was executed through these are groups. plain. and over the powers of. love and. what happened on january 6th. the public of democrats every american but do we need to notice the next yes.

nancy pelosi. impeachment of president obama. in 8 hours that day yeah well she did get impeachment through a few weeks ago. with out through investigation. find me around hall full of employees at the new york times don't feel comfortable expressing that he's free to get the newspaper that's according to a recent in-house say a 49 percent said they didn't feel unable to speak their minds that walk it follows a series of allegations that more moderate employees out the new york times were forced out the newspaper's management has admitted that the situation well it could be better. although the majority of us feel well informed many indicated the differing viewpoints aren't sought or valued in our work related lee we saw some

negative responses on whether there's a free exchange of views in the company and scored below the benchmark on this question while the new york times has yet to respond to our team's request for comment we'll get back to you in the meantime we spoke to legal and meta on this lionel about the issue wait a minute it's a white it's a respected you mean he used to be a respected that was the heralded zhan kid that new york was the employees of the new york times it's not a factory it's not a hospital it's not a sports team it's a celebrated again vaunted bastion of free speech you can speak up you can speak as a loudly and is vociferous only as you want at any stratum in any industry so long as it comports with that which the radical left believes we live in

a world this country right no particular no matter where you go is not somebody saying i disagree with you but i disagree with you and shut up and if you continue i'm not going to merely ask for your job but i want because of this cancel culture i want you to be obliterated and removed from every aspect of your existence it's not just president trump it's not just people he worked with it's everywhere it's seca feeding frenzy it's like this this in gorged it tick that is just sucking the blood of free speech it's a it just can't get enough it's everywhere i've never seen anything like this at every single level not the thought police thought vigilantes. it's me for the day but don't worry it's at the top of the hour you know neil will be here taking over the reigns join him and as for me.

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