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all demanding his immediate release to sell is facing a 9 month sentence over insults towards the spanish royal family and glorifying terrorist groups in his tweets on the rx he was arrested in his home town of some 150 kilometers west of course along with protests erupting in cities across the region are going to thaw and people rallied in barcelona alone where they were met with a strong police presence demonstrators held banners reading free public local journalist evelyn kitchen staff told me more a little earlier from barcelona. people are starting to like they already started yesterday going out on the streets of mar so long and they want public hostile to be released he basically was criticizing the spanish crown and she's in his songs in his rap there are lots of teenagers

a protest think mostly young people and not just in barcelona but also in other sneakiness in catalonia especially a laid out where a pub law was in there and we continue basically barricaded himself and now he said that she just wanted the truth to come out and he's very happy happy about it they just looked like the streets on fire and the plus a couple you know just the main square in there in barcelona and so the police are getting quite angry because it's like the 1st process since many months in the barcelona because of it of course yesterday there was a woman who was injured who was there she is only 19 years old and she got basically like a bullet bomb in hair in her face and now it seems like there are for the star even . bigger than than yesterday and they might continue for. for the next couple

things famous or something and demand a back there and there in the iris of well might have just been and that it's been months since a couple lungs were protesting. among a whole thing like you said. and others other big. bang. actually also tired of all the restrictions. so they are using you know different uses such as the iris of. the basic knows that they want who you know have a normal life again go back to work and go to restaurants and and they are just hired and. you know it does appear to be a number of issues merging really into warm on the streets there but just all hustle himself a 32 year old was taken to prison earlier this week after killing himself in

a council on university alongside his supporters in order to avoid arrest as you can see there police in full riot gear entered late university and removed the barricades from where he had locked himself away the backdrop to all this is the last weekend's historic showing of pro independence parties and cattle on the elections moving above a 50 percent presence in parliament for the 1st time just to reiterate previously in 2018 mr house so was convicted by a spanish court for glorifying terrorism and insulting state institutions in his lyrics and some tweets he had been given until last friday night to turn himself in and begin serving his sentence now we spoke to a member of the council on national assembly who sees that suppressing freedom of speech is inexcusable and there's a need for change in society. spanish over many is their secret being the fundamental rights artists have their right to free speech and free free

creation croom government is they call themselves the most progressive overmanned in the history for spain and so for them the case of problem has been brought up because isn't a clear sign that this is not true this is one of the reasons why we want the independence not because we want to build a new a new contract with a more open and free. loaders we won a more open system no system which accept. the killed your creation like the one i sell or others like. so of course we need this this change so we are fighting for this for a more free. 3. the alleged don't

see every business practices of some of the world's biggest chocolate producers are being placed in the spotlight international rights advocates have filed a lawsuit claiming that snuck giants including nestlé mars cargill use children as young as 11 to make their products ilia tranq was being looking into the not so sweet story behind your favorite tree. 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

hold of war 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 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 yeah 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 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. and. taking us through the. nestle mars cargo are yet to respond to our request for comment on the allegations. ok let's bring you to the u.s. state of texas now we're close to 3000000 hustles from maine with electricity the power outages in the lone star state has seen production grind to a halt in some high tech plants in the ordinary texans are left to their own devices as temperatures in their homes drop severely with grooves caving in some houses under the weight of the snow. this is.

what it is some texans left without power overnight reportedly put up tents inside their homes in a bid to keep warm in recent days temperatures have dropped to minus 18 degrees celsius dolly's the coldest level seen there in more than 30 years on sunday president biden was forced to carry state of emergency in this state and the mayor of colorado city was forced to resign after telling locals in a facebook post to quote sink or swim and not wait for $100.00 it's all happening there they still storm has also intensified the debate over renewable energy as many wind turbines froze to a halt while solar panels were covered with ice. and ice bring you to europe where a court in the hague has ruled out the dutch government's controversial covert curfew is illegal it's the florida keys have misused emergency powers the curfew will however remain in place until look government's appeal on friday our europe

correspondent peter all of her has more. well this 9 pm curfew that's been in place in the netherlands to try and stop the spread of covert 1000 being 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 rooters says the curfew is necessary to get covert numbers down and keep them down. 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. or mr it is government are working on ways to put in place a 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. to be gotten rid of or whether it needs to stay. like a few makes absolutely no sense what they've done now they try to keep those students in that 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 that's 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 well this is all very messy legally it may well have huge repercussions for the more than 50000 people who've already being hunted by the 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 4. just to stay with peter's report a sociologist we spoke to believes the standoff between the government and the court is a result of deeper issues. i think it is a serious political crisis but it's a political crisis that started many months ago when the government was forced to resign after the so-called benefits scandal when they hear a few measures were announced back in january we got some of the wall street riots

we have seen in the netherlands for many years that was not right exactly for but your few assaults there were vioxx against the government for many many decades he's dismantling. much of the health care infrastructure of the kountry and now an emergency pandemic the government basically doesn't have an effective enough health care system to call. the situation and only been the only been able to fax in 8 fast enough the population so all to give their. i think that the court is echoing lot of disappointment of many people with the government and this doesn't have to do only with the care for. them in conflict policies and how it impacts on a large part of the population negative impact. israelis refusing to get

a coronavirus job may soon find their names on a government watch list it's what the country's prime minister has suggested they're raising concerns over possible predecease violations on discrimination israel has a world leading vaccination program but a recent loss of momentum has worried prime minister benjamin netanyahu the state is now considering rolling out a series of measures to boost optic among the population they include launching a campaign against dissent from nation introducing new legislation giving immunity passports to the inoculated. in the sleepless the reasons to go and get vaccinated is that we are now launching the green possible to plan 1st being vaccinated will be able to go enjoy the stats of the cinema sports events flights abroad restaurants and more. talk of the new measures if their polling place sparked protests outside the p.m.'s

residence in jerusalem with hundreds demanding netanyahu his resignation accusing him of mishandling the pandemic and also of corruption the proposal to share the names of all vaccinated people with authorities does raise concerns over privacy violations of possible discrimination is really something. 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 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. israeli authorities are

using their cards as well as the stick to encourage people to get vaccinated food truck outside of vaccine center in tel aviv giving our free pastries to make the experience of getting an ocular a bit more palatable. this is our national coming up support for a 3rd political force in the u.s. reaches an all time high in. the current american political. story and well. financially i don't buy it i'm with you. on the fly. as some of my ex in the future.

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22 minutes into the program welcome back 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 now support the idea that is the most since the question 1st started being asked by the gallup polling group 18 years ago within the big parties themselves 46 percent of democrats say a 3rd way is needed that's gone from 52 percent in september but a record high of republicans favor the creation of another party from supporters who are still urging him to unite their ranks and i said mr president this maggot movement needs to continue we need to unite the party trunk plus is the way back in 2022 earlier i discussed the current state of u.s. political parties 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 stablish

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 to progressive parties that are for big government they're for reckless spending and rolling 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 often 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 policies but they get co-opted by the democrats but the democrats really can't implement those policies because of their allegiance to their donors 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 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 know 3rd parties don't want to do that but there's legislation that needs to be changed to make it make us elections more fair for everybody and if voters more choices that they're

valid one. well the former u.s. president might have been acquitted but his supporters may not be off the hook it's after democrats announced plans for a $911.00 style commission to investigate the capitol riots double quarter asks if a mccarthy era witchhunt is on the horizon. repression want to one you've 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 are understanding that 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. if it and 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 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 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 a reminder for all to the minute developments our twitter page covered just 2 letters are well funded for you i mean only one this is r.t. international.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics. i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. sneakers your beings to change nature so i think you know the rules to this i think

as long as the last person is going to make people uneasy. why should we why should we be forced to buy time just because nature. or somebody new brain why don't we just choose the.