i underestimate cross spain over the jailing of. he's been handed a 9 month sentence for insulting the world and glorifying independents arisen in his tweets and lyrics. and other headlines some of the world's largest producers face accusations of child trafficking and forced labor we hear some disturbing testimony. were not given any food both have visible scars from machete accidents. declares the country's. illegal ministers miscues the emergency powers. israel's prime minister proposes giving

local authorities lists of vaccinated people as part of its coronavirus inoculation campaign critics though say it violates privacy rights. people would not like to force them to do that it's violating the right to protect people. here in the russian capital thanks for joining us on our to international i'm daniel hawkins welcome to the program. on rest has erupted in spain following the jailing of. people in barcelona madrid and valencia are demanding his release has been handed a 9 month sentence over insults directed at the spanish rule family and also glorifying terror groups in his tweets and lyrics he was arrested in his hometown with protests are up. across catalonia around 2000 people run it in barcelona where

they met strong police presence demonstrators held by honest reading free of local journalists. sent us this report. people are starting to like they already started yesterday going out on the streets of bar so long and they want public hustle to be released he basically was criticizing the spanish crowd 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 lay down where a pub law was in there in which a new person thinking basically barricaded himself and now he says that she just wanted the truth to come out and he's very happy happy about it they are just like the streets on fire and the plus

a couple is the main square in the 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 the of course yesterday there was a woman who was injured who was there she's 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 start even . bigger than yesterday and they might continue for the next couple things famous for protesting and demand a back there there in the iris of well might have just been an excuse because it's been months since the cuts along were protesting this actually among the whole spain like you said. and others other big. banks because people are actually also tired. older restrictions. so they are using

you know different excuses such as the rest of. the book says they want who you know have a normal life again go back to work and go to restaurants and and they are just wired and about a 32 year old cell was taken to prison earlier this week after barricading himself in a cast on university alongside his supporters police in full riot gear entered university and removed the barricades this will comes after last weekend's historic showing of pro independence parties in the local custom elections moving above a 50 percent presence in parliament for the 1st time back in 2018 it was convicted by a spanish court for glorifying terrorism and insulting state institutions he's been he had been given until last friday night autonomy self in and begin serving his sentence a member of the cast of our national assembly told us suppressing free speech is

inexcusable. this bunny over many is quitting the fundamental rights act is trash their right to free speech and free country creation through government is they call themselves the most progressive government in the history for spain and so for them the case of problem has been problem because is a clear sign that this is not true not this is one of the reasons why we want the independence not because we want to build in a new contract with a more open and free loaders we want to know more open system the system which accept. the killed and 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. village to shady business practices of some of the world's biggest chocolate producers are in the spotlight international rights activists have filed a lawsuit claiming industry giants including nestle and mars use children as young as 11 to make their products if a trunk or has the details. 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 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 activists heard from kids who escaped after years of misery ease 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 paying. whose main atara 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. nestlé mars and cargill i get to respond to our request for comments on the allegations. from. close to 3000000 homes are still without power in the u.s. state of texas following a fierce winter storm the power outages have seen production and grind to a halt in some high tech plants ordinary texans are being left to their own devices as temperatures in their homes drop severely roof caved in on some houses under the weight of the snow. so this is.

where they or some texans left without power overnight reportedly put up tents inside their own homes in a bid to keep warm in recent days temperatures have dropped to minus 18 degrees celsius the coldest spell seen there in more than 30 years on sunday president biden declared a state of emergency on the murder of a small texan city had to resign after telling locals in a facebook post to sink or swim and not wait for a handout as those storms also intensified debates over renewable energy as many wind turbines froze to a halt and solar panels were covered with ice. a course in the hague has ruled the dutch government's controversial covert curfew is illegal and so the authorities have misused emergency powers the curfew though will remain in place until the government's appeal on friday it's all over reports. 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 a new girl 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 curfews 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. because middle of 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 freedom these the reasons because she was introduced and does not changed or hold on mr hooper's governments 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 got 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. 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 that there are fewer flu symptoms fewer gold complaints also because people have less contact and stick to the rules in a better manner so 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 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 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 a sociologist we spoke to believes this clash between the government and the court as a result of deeper issues. i think it's 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 cure 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. except for that you're a few us out there were by york's against the government for many many decades he's dismantling. much of the health care infrastructure in the kountry and now

the meds and see a pandemic the government basically doesn't have an effective enough health care system to call. them and they don't even only been able to fix an 8 fast enough the population so alter gives or. i think of the court echoing look of disappointment of many people with the government and this doesn't have to do only with the care of 3. women but because followed policies and how it impacts on large parts of the population negative impacts. still support for a 3rd political force something out of state streets i don't climb high. heels of the current political tensions in the country going on more still to come.

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics. i'm showbusiness i'll see that. as the coby vaccine is being rolled out. necessary to take stock of the economic good history she left in the gimmicks week we used to feed the working middle class will income inequality continue to priest will government intervention change the economy finally does the phrase. we are now at a point where we cannot manufacture the basic foundational

components of the 21st century economy we are literally taking ourselves out of the game by throwing the keys to the economy to private equity groups wall street hedge funds financier's and money pressures and now it's too late. the program is very nice refusing to get a coronavirus job may soon find their names on a government watch list that's the suggestion of the prime minister the move though has raised concerns of a possible rights violations israel has a world leading vaccination program but a recent loss of momentum has worried the prime minister benjamin netanyahu the state is now considering rolling out a series of measures to boost these include launching a campaign against this information introducing new legislation as well as issuing

immunity passports. the reason to go and get vaccinated is that we are now launching the green passport. has been vaccinated will be able to go enjoy the theatre the cinema sports events flights abroad restaurants and more so the. talk of the new measures starts on the prime minister's residence in jerusalem with hundreds demanding that a new york resignation using him of mishandling the pandemic and corruption the proposal to share the names of imax and its people with or thought he has raised concerns over privacy violations and possible discrimination is what israelis think . the government should. convince the people but not like you forced him to do that this manner you have to be very vigilant for the. privacy of citizens but over public health all measures should be taken of course you can't force someone to be vaccinated because what you care. for believe him 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 all the people around violating one right to protect all the others people. is really authorities are using the carrot as well as the stick to get people vaccinated a food truck outside a vaccine center has been giving out free pastries to make the experience of getting inoculated more palatable. a new poll showing 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's the highest since the question 1st started being polled 18 years ago when the big parties themselves 46 percent of democrats say

a 3rd way is needed that's down from 52 percent in september a record high of republicans though favored the creation of either party trump supporters however are still urging the for president to unite the ranks and i said mr president this maggot movement needs to continue we need to unite the party truck plus's the way back in 2022 we put the idea of a 3rd major party in u.s. politics up for debate. i think that in the republican party you have 2 factions you have a conservative pro trump 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 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. 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 great and probably 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 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 u.s. elections more fair for everybody and if voters voters more choices at their ballot box. the former u.s. president might have been acquitted but his supporters may not be off the hook quite yet and so are the democrats and are the plans for a 911 style commission to investigate the capitol riots auntie's donald causer asks if a mccarthy era witch hunt 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 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 thick. it already some conservatives feel that they are in danger. children are to

a secret location. we are dorm 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 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 in 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 might even signatures as they're 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 news using cues coming your way in just a few moments time the team and i can offer you the latest news updates to join us again that. the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interest or you see in this these techniques is the state devising methods to him to essentially destroy personality of an individual. by scientific. this is how one doctor's theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare

against prisoners deemed a danger to the state that was the foundation for the method of psychological interrogation psychological torture. disseminated within the us intelligence community and worldwide among our allies for the next 30 years and how the victims say they still live with the consequences today. measures human beings to change nature so i think you know the rules are there because what was lost there is that there is going to make people uneasy but really why should we be forced to buy time just because major hasan throw you off of the brain why don't we get to that. it's been decades since the fall of spain's fascist regime but old wounds still haven't healed. me from you know.

me coffee to market the bottom is above or you me on the bus at us as mean older than us and i think ultimately you know thousands of newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given away and forced adoption that only. feast or that of my own role as a fellow mentor to this day mothers still search for grown children while adults look in hope for their birth parents. have you ever started a new job but it seems like everyone at your new workplace cannot stop talking about the person you replaced well it has been almost one month since president biden took office and yet his predecessor continues to share if not dominate the headlines but it's also getting personal as lawmakers are having to deal with members of their own state party and their own family publicly upset with their vote on last week's impeachment we're going to take

a $360.00 view on why is there an obsession with donald trump and more importantly is it justified but we also want to focus on the 1st major appearance of president biden at a town hall which consisted of several did he really just say that moment we're going to bring you all of the details and a legend and media has passed we're going to reflect on just how much of an influence rush limbaugh had on politics and what this means for a movement for the future and scotty now hughes and a you're watching a news used to use it right here on our to america. we opened today show with the news of the passing of a talk radio host rush limbaugh now he'd been battling lung cancer for over a year and was honored by president trump just last year at the state of the union with the presidential medal of freedom you know rush was either loved or hated by those in politics.