child trafficking forced labor those are the allegations. against some of the world's largest producers we hear disturbing testimony. he says were not given any. dutch court declares the government's curfew illegal. prime minister says naming citizens. to stimulate the country is only going to. move many. people. to.

the right. people. french lawmakers approved separatism bill which critics states. opponents to the legislation. from house to live from moscow every hour of the day is r.t. from the team myself you know neal hello and welcome to the program. the alleged unsavory business practices of some of the world's biggest chocolate producers being placed under the spotlight international rights and get some filed a lawsuit claiming that's not giants including nestle mars and cargo forced children as young as 11 to make their products and the been looking 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 trial of 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 in 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 activists heard from kids who escaped after years of misery ease of he 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 atara and is suv baguio co walks about 6 to 7 hours to the small

isolated village of sour 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's claim 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. the editor and co well nestlé mars and cargo are yet to respond to our request for

a comment on the allegations. a court in the hague has ruled the dutch government's controversial covert curfew is illegal it said that authorities had misused them urgency powers the curfew will however remain in place some to live governments that people on friday are europe correspondent peter all over has more. well there's 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 from middle 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 a new laws that would essentially allow the few 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 was no use they have to ground those planes so that people can't travel because as long as people continue to travel they will continue to travel or i notice that people who don't have much to do with it have less trouble with karana i've had khurana myself so i know how bad it can be my mother died of it recently we also noticed that

there are fewer flu symptoms if you're 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 i mean i didn't like the curfew myself but i 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 at a 9 while this is all very messy legally it may well have huge repercussions for the more than 50000 people who've already being handed fines for breaching the curfew by the police we are expecting more to come on 'd this it's up for debate on friday in the netherlands we'll see whether that curfew remains whether it goes or whether it comes back in some different type of for. ok to another story we're closely following today is really refusing to get a coronavirus job may soon find their names on

a government watch list at least that's what the country's prime minister has suggested raising concerns over possible privacy violations and discrimination israel has a world leading vaccination program in place but its recent loss of momentum has worried prime minister benjamin netanyahu the state is now considering rolling out a series of measures to boost optik among the population include launching a campaign against distant from ation introducing new legislation giving immunity passports to the inoculated. no in the sleepless the reasons to go get vaccinated is that we are now launching the green passport plan 1st being vaccinated will be able to go enjoy the theatre the cinema sports events flights abroad restaurants and more of. the new measures sparked protests outside the p.m.'s residence in jerusalem with hundreds of them yes and you know who's resignation accusing him of mis. demick and

corruption to the proposal to share the names of all vaccinated people with authorities has raised concerns over privacy violations and possible discrimination to it's been met with a mixed reaction among israelis. the government should. convince the people about not liking force them to do that this manner 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 it 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 violating one right to protect all the others people.

is really authorities are using the current as well as the stick to encourage people to get vaccinated a 3rd truck outside a vaccine center in tel aviv has been giving out free pastries to make the experience of getting an ocular more palatable. now after weeks of heated debate the french national assembly has voted in favor of a bill against separatism it was proposed to curb radical islam after a series of killings there including the brutal beheading of a history teacher last october lawmakers adopted more than $300.00 amendments to the bill and many m.p.'s are still on happy with the finished product. citizen art it is absolute silence an 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

a group or gore clue to defend the principles of the republic leave verjuice religious extremism and its dramatic consequences is a serious challenge of our times well this law is aimed at in trying to found the use of the french for public it includes a tightening of rules around things such as religious teaching ringback to online hate and it will also see chance sentences for doctors who perform genesee tests now 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 an 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 falls going through every section of it

more than 100 hours was spent on that in fact and there were $300.00 amendments made that despite all of that talking this is seen by some as being kin to a witch hunt against muslims are secular actually in the presidential election particularly when muslims are the focus of debates leave us alone leave islam alone effect 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 quite on the contrary it will only make it worse and 50 have a limit it scares me it scares me for the youth because the problem is he has we wear a veil and yes we are mostly. and so what because we are muslims it doesn't mean that we're islam it's it is necessary to make the distinction now the bill has also sparked diplomatic problems and tensions with other countries you might remember that there was critical coverage in the english language media at the lead to

present my point of personal 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 macro level 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 at this you didn't include a ban on women wearing these are making a headscarf in areas such as university so it does seem that nobody was really happy with that spike in fact this bill passed or that this 1st reading this bill had been in the works spoke very long time over year ago president it talks about creating a bill like this but it really came and sharp focus following a spate of islam at a terror attacks in france last year there was of course the brutal beheading of history teacher samuel patty and then 3 people being 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 time and time again so it'd 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 rubber stamped 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. than where putin has promised to protect the country's upcoming parliamentary elections from foreign interference the russian leader making the comment while addressing the state dumas party leaders considering rushkoff picks up a story. 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 even the. up 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 a 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 the scene 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 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 would. why is everything revolving around nord stream too they want to force russia to pay for their so-called ukraine geo political projects that sits in fact it's all quite simple after the meeting lair putin also plans to see each of the parliamentary party leaders in person. there is being on rest in the spanish city a parcel since the jailing of rapper public cell he is facing a 9 month sentence over insults towards the spanish royal family and glorifying terrorist groups in his tweets and lyrics. protests were reported in cities across the catalonia region in valencia iran 2000 people rallied in barcelona alone where they face a strong police presence demonstrators held banners reading free. the 32

year old was taken to prison choose the after barricading himself in a university with his supporters to avoid arrest if. i decided to resist such an unjust sentence because it would be unfair and humiliating for me to go to jail we demand freedom of expression i shouldn't be imprisoned and not only me but so many other people who are either waiting to be imprisoned all have cases opened against them for the same reasons in the future. a member of the council on national assembly that we spoke to say suppressing freedom of speech as he sees it there is another reason why the region needs independent. the spanish government their secret being the fundamental rights not the artist their right to to free speech and free free creation of the lyrics were men

is they call themselves the most progressive government in in the history of the spain on so for them the case of the high salary is a big problem because. is a clear. sign that this is not true or not we want to know more open system no system which accept. the. creation like the one i sell or others like. so of course we need this this change. a wide ranging new poll has shown that support for a 3rd major american political party has reached an all time high according to the study around 2 thirds of americans support the idea and that is the most since the question 1st started being asked by the gallup polling group eating years ago within the big parties themselves 46 percent of democrats say

a 3rd way is needed down from 52 percent in september but a record high of republicans favor another party from supporters they were still are edging him to unite the ranks and i said mr president this maggot movement needs to continue we need to unite the party truck plus is the way back in 2022 when earlier i discussed the current state of u.s. politics with a number of guests. i think that in the republican party you have 2 factions you have a conservative pro-life 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. use 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 oft in the green new deal that's a green party policy. universal health care those are green party policies free college tuition those are great khali 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 and 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. that we have to do and i'm not their parties don't want to do that but there's legislation that needs to be changed to make. make us elections more fair for everybody and if voters voters more choices at their brother. former us president might have been acquitted but his supporters may not be off the hook that's after democrats announced plans for a $911.00 style commission to investigate the capitol riots artie's donal quarter asks if a mccarthy era witchhunt 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 version of events 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 in the department of justice they want nationalism or some make sure that they don't understand you know the earliest of ages out or 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 thick. it

already some conservatives feel that they are in danger. children are to a secret location. we are armed guards. or polices 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 the 1950 s. america i think we're coming out of a very divisive time where the president of the united states stoked a lot of those flames liberals and conservatives that took took up those banners and their own ways and now we have to see how the dust settles and if the dust settles in squelching speech i think we really need to be greatly concerned that we're not overreacting and in an emotional need to react that silences people simply because we don't like what they have to say i think both on the right and the left there's concern about can i really express how i feel about things can i

put things in my email signatures is there going to be you know pushback from my employer i think that we have to be concerned as very moving forward how we're really going to be reacting to this and if you know you're dragging us through january event one more time through an ideological battle rather than the facts of what happened that day has if that's going to help us or not i don't know. the road huff the employees at the new york tell you don't feel comfortable expressing their views freely at the newspaper according to a recent in a survey 49 percent said they didn't feel able to speak their minds out the paper it follows a series of allegations that employees with more moderate views are being forced to the daily's momentum and has admitted the situation 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 the new york times us military responded to our teased requests for comment earlier i got the take of legal and media analyst from new york lowell wait a minute it's a watch it's a respected you mean he used to be a respected that was the heralded zhan kid at new york ga 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 his 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 tick that is just sucking the blood and 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 of us are news stories for an hour but they're close because scottie know this on your screens and moments with the latest news views hughes isn't.