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hello, the other, the got it go. much other than was really a good one day. i use i in the headlines this out today here on our t as america celebrates the end of slavery on it. soil. the supreme court ruled the u. s. chocolate giant can't be sued for relying on for child labor african font. the canadian indigenous people are granted the right to use that traditional names and official documents. but an indigenous rights activists tell us off is not enough to make up for decades of cultural genocide. the government both own life was the government, me the decision to take the kids to take our languages to take our culture, to take our name or so you have ministers apologize. say they feel deeply ashamed
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after review reveals to thousands of rape victims just don't see justice, victim support groups. those say it's too little too late. no, i don't think an apology alone is enough to heal the heads of the victims and survivors who have been so terribly let down and devastating floods leave. at least one person dead and many more injured in southern rushes, crimea. province authorities have declared a state of emergency with thousands evacuated from their homes. ah, well, we have plenty of stores for you live here on this saturday. it's our national life for moscow. thank you for sharing your time with us. america, celebrating its new june 10th holiday marking the end of slavery in the country.
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but its supreme court has also just ruled that force to child labor in africa is not something us. chocolate giants are culpable for. which critics say smacks poker c. as elliot tranquil explains the question is slavery still something that troubles america today? well, here comes the answer from the president. remember, the moral stain, the terrible toll. this slavery took on the country and continues to take. so what's there to be done about that? as an athlete, you can take the knee and the name of black lives matter. as an activist, you can campaign for the reparations, for the ancestors of those who suffered or were killed as president, you can declare june the 19th, or june pings as federal holiday. that's exactly what the president did earlier this week. as the supreme court. you know, what else happened at the same time?
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the u. s. supreme court ruled american food giants best play usa and car gill can't be sued for child slavery. this ruling has disturbing implications for future victims of human rights abuses, seeking justice against businesses and us cause. this ruling also says a dangerous precedence, giving corporations impunity of a profiting from human rights abuses. it's an old and disturbing story that we've already reported on a group of african men demanded compensation from us corporations that get their cocoa in africa. they claimed the been traffic from one country to another as children, and forced to work as slaves and horrendous conditions on coca farms. the activists are sounding the alarm over the 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
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tastes of illegal child labor. but what if these accounts are fake? well, only recently the u. s. department of labor funded a report which found that the cocoa industry in west africa was exploiting 1600000 char laborers, e slaves. without going into too many legalistic details, the nation's highest court pulled the brakes on the case pretty much because companies outside the us bear the responsibility for mass abuse. you might want to ask why not at least look into the case? well, that's how things are. that's how the law works. the big businesses will probably keep repeating things like or i'm 99 percent. sure they will. child labor is unacceptable. that is why we are working so hard to prevent it. cargoes work to keep child labor out of the cocoa supply chain isn't wavering. we do not tolerate the use of child labor in our operations or supply chains and we're working every day to prevents it expects even more emotional words from them,
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from the athlete. the activists and the president on june 13th, but those who have been following this particular case won't stand the hypocrisy. we are celebrating the end of slavery, but american companies are still profiting off of slave labor. so it's up to you to celebrate or to reflect on the toll that joe biden mentioned. it needs to be illegal for american corporations to do business with anyone who uses child labor because they always say, well, they didn't work for us, it wasn't our farm. you can't blame us. this has to be tackled legislatively, other corporations to do great harm to people. they will, especially in the past year, they'll say black lives matter or someone will take a need. or they claim that they have an anti racist workplace when
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they don't. and this is one of many ways in which the u. s. is hypocritical on the issue of human rights by allowing corporations have carte blanche to practise all kinds of terrible things all over the world. but money talks and the big corporations get the ear of politicians. so they're never held to account the way they should be. indigenous canadians have been given the right to use that traditional names on official documents as part of a government effort to atone for decades of forced assimilation. we spoke to indigenous our human rights activists. laura lay williams who told us it in no way makes up for the atrocities the government has committed. i've been trying to get my own inventions name, but yeah, it hasn't happened yet. i was supposed to get when my mom passed away. but you know, in that moment it was just too hard for me. i had to leave my moms as or when the
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kids were taken to residential school. they actually were numbered. they, they had to go by numbers just why a small small step that the government taking the government. oh, oh, much, you know, it was the government who made the decision to take the kids to take our languages to take our culture, to take our name, to try to kill our candidates genocide against our people. with the discovery of the 215 children class, they can't hide the truth any more. so i guess they're trying to make up for what they did. but this is a small, small step. you know, a lot of our languages are actually dying. on monday, the canadian government announced that in digital names can be used in the original spelling for identity and immigration documents. that is 6 years after report by
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the truth and reconciliation commission condemned a cultural genocide of schools and call to greater inclusion and recognition of the dignity of indigenous people. while the move comes off the grim discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at the sight of a former residential school, such schools were a part of a country wide network and it assimilating indigenous children by removing them from their communities and forbidding them to perform cultural practices. or we understand physical and emotional abuse where prominent. 2 8 ah. 8 8 the. 8 every day you will see it was that it wasn't due today, it was going to be the target, the victim. you know, you weren't going to have to suffer anything humiliation he learned to cry anymore . get harder. and yet you learn to shut down. oh
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me. i couldn't talk a word of english. i talked creek and i was abused for that hit and made to try to talk english. i lost my language. they threatened with a strapping. you spoke it. within a year, i lost all of it with i used to him i in the night the principal to take him to the hospital. he didn't, after about 2 weeks, my brother was in so much pain. he was going out his mind. i pleaded with the principal for days to take him to the doctor. ah, they started to sexually take advantage of me and abuse me. not long. not too many, many people for very long time until i was 16. i held everything in and didn't tell anybody for 20 years. laura williams again says little has actually changed with
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indigenous people still exposed to systemic racism even today. this one school has definitely caught a lot of attention around the world. there's so many different leaders that patch up about this i find when we we speak up about there, we have to repeat herself over and over and over again. and it gets tiring. it's hard, we're grateful that these children are being bound. we always knew that they were there, and it's not just those children. so this is lawana can start to see creates there so much systemic racism against ash del to be. and this is exactly why our women and girls are indigenous women and girls are going cmt murdered at a high rate. you know, as an in business woman,
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we're still at the bottom here in canada. and these are our own lands. so the systemic racism has to stop you. k ministers have expressed shame over falling rape conviction rates. and you review reveal the thousands of victims. what deny justice officials have apologized but active a say that's just not enough. it's unusual for government to express this kind of shame and admit and recognize the deep failings in the criminal justice system. but no, i don't think an apology alone is enough to heal the heads of the victims and survivors who have been so terribly let down. and i think that the real proof of the pudding will be in the eating, you know, the real difference because and survivors will come if and when the proper measures are taken to improve the situation for the future. the long awaited review revealed
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more than half of rape victims drop the case as many out of fear and only 1.5 percent of them see the suspected attacker charged. the review blames to failure on intrusive police probes court and investigative delays and the inconsistent support for survivors. the government says police and prosecutors will be scored to raise the number of cases reaching court scorecards will measure the quality of the work, and whether victims have satisfied the 1st results will be published by december. however, katie russell, again says, are short term measures that just not enough. other victims and survivors are likely to feel quite angry actually as if an apology is too little too late. because for them, of course, they haven't got criminal justice, they can't potentially been re traumatized by the system. we know we talking about a long term systemic structural issue, a wholesale issue so, so small individual measures are going to,
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on their own be able to solve the situation. nobody doubts that very, very many lives have been seriously impacted, negatively, impacted by sexual violence and abuse. in recent years and, and this apology and this recognition and this review comes after very many years of campaigning for districts in crimea had declared a state of emergency amid severe flooding which is left at least one person dead and scores injured. almost 2000 people have been evacuated from their homes by the emergency services. the with me we do to some of the people who had fled the affected areas as well. each and every
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one of them has told me that they do not recall anything of this scale not even close. in fact, in their lifetime, the things that we have seen coming out of towns of casual yells for some towns in fact small towns around them. they have been well quite apocalyptic. just told districts of towns submerged under water, cars floating around as if they were just, you know, motor boat and so on and so forth. so it has been quite unprecedented that people have been very severely affected by this. they weren't ready, of course, because he just con, you know, prepare for something like that. their homes ruined some lives completely going down the drain, excused upon and well right now, thousands of emergency work is working, in fact, trying to restore, to bring back to life, to bring back to some stability these areas. the governance of crimea has visited
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both of the major towns affected worst by the flooding. he is what he had to say to grow up for peace care. the situation is disastrous in many homes. some of those that are on the low lands that have been flooded by water from almost the entire city of turn ships. and unfortunately, the water is still up to the waist for the for now, our goal is to help everyone that no one is left to face this crisis alone. so no understatement, snow, mincing words on behalf of the crime in the government and out the really not a peninsula wide but a very large scale of emergency declared here. again, thousands of rescue work as well. tirelessly overnight trying to bring these areas back into some operational state and the while the, the, this is just another problem. mounting on top of the people's shoulders in crimea, because previously people he had experienced
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a shortage of what they basically the lack of access to enough portable, drinkable and safe, clean water. and now that the rains have had, this is what you brainy and official had to say. night to show you know that the crime in peninsula has been asking for water for a very long time. and there's so much water there today that they don't even know what to do with it. and yesterday encouraged him today in y'all to us. unfortunately, this happened there. the lord god gave them too much water in one goal so well, some very bitter sarcasm at the expense of people whose lives have been well completely washed away by the flood. now we are hoping to travel very shortly to these areas and observe the efforts of the russian emergency ministry as they are trying to help people cope with their loss and bring their lives back on track. for people have died off for
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a short range. aircraft crash landed and they came out of a region in central russia. the plane was carrying a group of sky divers. 5 more passengers are in a critical condition. 10 others are injured. a 2 pilots in to sky diving instructors are among the dead. according to local officials, the pilots reported an engine failure shortly before the accident. are still a few. here on our tea berlin's senate adopter, controversial bills making it mandatory buildings to be equipped with solar panels . we asked berlin as what they think of this, that story and more in just a the, oh i i what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be an arms race is on often very dramatic development. only personally,
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ah good. have you with us today for the program? a damning us senate report has revealed details of the systematic intelligence and the communications failures leading up to the capitol hill seat that happened in january. i found that law enforcement agencies, including the f b. i actually had intelligence about a possible attack one month before, but dismissed it as not credible. correspondent caleb morrison picked up the story . that's been 6 months spent, a mob storm the u. s. capital on january 6th. and while the investigation is ongoing, some politicians say they want answers and they have some interesting ways of saying it. and i certainly hope that our premier law enforcement organization is not actually working to violate federal law. so why bring the f b i into this? well, there's a theory floating around that the f, b, i infiltrated the protesters and basically arranged the whole thing and then
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shifted the blame on to donald trump and his supporters. is there any possible truth in this? so let's dig deeper. it's certainly worth finding out why this has become a popular explanation of events. earlier this week, the u. s. senate just published a big report on the riot. here is some of what they found, needed the f b. i know the u. s. department of homeland security deemed online posts calling for violence of the capital is credible in testimony before the committee's representatives from both agencies noted that much of the rhetoric online prior to january. the 6th was 1st amendments, protected speech of limits of credibility and acknowledge areas for improvement in handling and dissemination of threat information from social media and online message boards to enhance law enforcement and intelligence agencies abilities to counter the threats. now we find out they did indeed have lots of information. they just didn't think it was relevant. the report goes on the united states, capital police, again, gathering information about the events plan for jenny, the 6 in mid december 2020,
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through open source collection tips from the public and other sources. the u. s. c . p. intelligence and in the agency coordination division. knew about social media posts calling for violence at the capital on july, the 6th, including a pot to breach the capital, the online sharing of maps of the capital complex as tunnel systems, and other specific threats of violence. yet the i, c, d, did not convey the full scope of known information to us. c, p, leadership rank and file offices or law enforcement partners. so the secret service and police intelligence were aware of a possible but did not do anything and did not share this information. how could one be aware of the fact that a group of people is planning on storming the u. s. capital building and do nothing . looks like this report raises more questions than answers, kaleb mop and r t new york. the pentagon is warning the terrorist groups and i've gotten us on could expand the reach off of the u. s. pull out and pose an international threat. and the issue was raised at
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a hearing in the senate. how would you rate the, the likelihood of international terrorist organizations like l k, to an ice is regenerating inside of afghanistan and presenting a threat to our homeland our allies. i would assess it as medium. i would also say center that, that it wouldn't take possibly 2 years for them to develop that capability. fair enough, gentlemen, i, i concur with that and i think that if certain other things happen, if there was a collapse or the government or dissociate disillusion of the african security forces, that risk would obviously increase. but right now i'd say medium and a about 2 years or so. and ahead of the pull out there already signed the u. s. back to africa government as fast losing control of the country. the taliban has reportedly captured at least $27.00 districts since the beginning of last month. the medicine group has bound to take the entire country and establish on islamic emirate of afghanistan. back in april,
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president biden pledge to removal us troops by september. the 11th. that was pushed back from may. the 1st, the earlier deadlines set by trump and the taliban. in march, the pentagon had promised that the us would not undertake a hasty or disorderly withdrawal. and that everything would depend on the security situation on the ground. we spoke with anti war activist, brian becker things, some senior figures in washington and looking for a pretext to stay. we see here is a tug of war between those 2 are insisting that the u. s. they for ever an afghan is den. and those who feel that the war is not winnable, it's drain, it's not going to be, it's not going to alter the outcome. and they also make a differentiation between the taliban and should the television become the new government? yes, it would be the same kind of government, maybe with some slight variation from the way it was before september 11. but i think it's important not to conflate that with isis or isis is in afghanistan
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because of the us invasion of afghanistan. there was no isis prior to 2001. and our kite is really weakened for so obviously the military again. yes, there might be a need to continue us military presence. yes, there's a we m stay, a medium warning that i'll kind or i can come back. but again, i think there's a tug of war here between those who want to have wherever war in afghanistan and those who say, look, it's time to end the war. the berlin senate has passed the solar act, requiring the installation of solar power panels on various rooftops of buildings and the lower applies to new buildings, as well as existing ones in case of a roof renovation is part of a plan to cover a quarter of the capitals, electrical needs with solar energy by 2050. lower is set to apply for 2023 and includes hefty penalties, revival ations. but it's faced a barrage of criticism,
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both from the opposition as well as from the construction community. the present law will act as a break, especially in the field for innovation. many home owners will think twice about whether roof renovation is actually necessary, as they will be left with additional costs. berlin's eye rolling left wing coalition, however, says the law will take a big step towards climate neutrality. they emphasize the solar acts will also create future proof jobs, especially in the areas of planning and craft the opinion on the streets of berlin . it's fairly divided not because it's a good way to help protect the climate and if we can use our roof services to do that, it's a good idea. you can use them yourself to reduce your own electricity bill. personally, i'm against it because i don't support the permanent regulations related to the environment and nicole politics and not ready to pay more. as long as there are new regulations connected to green and necco politics in germany. we should be getting
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some money initially. but i think eventually we will be better off by leasing and future. maybe they should, they should be assistance from government. people that have base that maybe don't have the money. it would be nice if all rooftop solar panels we would produce much more energy with them. it would be great. it will pay off $1.00 day in 10 or 15 years. investments will be recruit, which is a good thing. in principle, i support the idea, but i do politicians are always coming up with things that hardly make any sense your program for this half hour here on our team to national thank you for sharing some of your saturday with us here at moscow. just about a half past 3 here in the russian capital with accent me
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to survive and interrogation, you've gotta be ready to step out. definitely don't want to be going to trial in the jump suit. one cups. you're more likely to walk free. if you're rich and guilty, you are. if you're poor and you got 2 eyes and 2 ears and one mouth. so you should be seeing and hear and a whole lot more than you're saying. if you don't take that advice, usually going to date yourself a whole the the the eat, eat the fish, get it going to be okay, which i will do this year . they'll sit with your dad. you see
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