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grief backed up the fight. c well, 3 prod, thank you for helping. ah, enjoy that right fill out that way. ah, and the headlines this saturday here on our team as americans celebrate the end of slavery in the united states. the supreme court locks a lawsuit against chocolate giants for using child labor on african fond indigenous people in canada are granted the right to use that traditional names and official documents. but one rights activists tell us, it's not enough to make up for decades of cultural genocide. is a government both? oh my, you know, it was the government made the decision to take the kids to take our languages to take our cultures to take the u. k. government ministers say they feel deeply
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ashamed after a review reveal to thousands of rape victims, never saw justice, a victim support group. so say it's too little too late to know. i don't, we can apology alone is enough to heal the heads of the victims of either to have been so terribly let down. devastating floods leave one person dead and scores injured in southern russia is crimea province. the story whose declare a state of emergency ah, well, plenty of stories for you on this saturday here, authority to national life for moscow. thank you for joining us. welcome to the program. america has celebrating it's june 18th holiday, mocking the end of slavery. but the supreme court has also just rule that forced child labor and africa is not something us food jaya, so culpable for
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a correspondent, the iliad for trunk of 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, his 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? the u. s. supreme court ruled american food giants, dest play, usa, and car gill, can't be sued for child slavery. this ruling has disturbing implications. the
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future victims of human rights abuses seeking justice against businesses and us courts. the ruling also sets 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 they've been traffic from one country to another as children, and forced to work as slaves and horrendous conditions on coca farms. the activists are founding the alarm over the ivory coast. a fact to think of the country exports more coco 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 taste 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
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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 prevent it expects even more emotional words from them, from the athlete. the activists and the president on june 13th,
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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 was in 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 they don't. and this is one of many ways in which the u. s. is hypocritical on the issue of human rights by. c allowing corporations have carte blanche to practise
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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 their traditional names on official documents as part of a government effort to atone for decades of forced assimilation. we supposed to one indigenous human rights activists. laura lay williams who told us it in no way it makes up for the atrocities the government has committed for generations. i've been trying to get my own individual 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 kids were taken to residential school. they actually were numbered. they,
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they had to go by numbers. just one 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 their people. what 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 wall wall step. you know, a lot of our language is, are actually dying on monday, the canadian government analyse that indigenous names can be used in their original spelling for identity and immigration documents. that is 6 years after a report by the truth and reconciliation, reconciliation commission condemned cultural genocide at the schools. now the move
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also comes after the grim discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at the sight of a former residential school. those institutions were part of a country wide network aimed at assimilating 1st nations children by removing them from their communities. 2 8 8 8 the. 8 do you mean cation fear? did you have was it wasn't you today? it was going to be the target, the victim. you know, you weren't going to have to suffer any form of humiliation. he learned to cry anymore. you just get harder. and yet you learn to shut down. ah, i couldn't talk a word of english. i talked cree and i was abused for that hit and made to try to talk english. i lost my language, threatened with a strapping you spoke it. within
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a year i lost all of it with i used to him i in the night. 2 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 of his mind. i pleaded with the principal for days to take him to the doctor. ah, to sexually take advantage of me and abuse me? not one. not too many, many people for a 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 changed with indigenous people still exposed to systemic racism. this one school has definitely caught a lot of attention around the world. there's so many vision of leaders that
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pass, woke 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 yolanda, can i start to see grades there so much systemic racism against ash del to be and this is exactly why are women and girls are indigenous women and girls to hear it are going cmt murdered at a high rate, you know, as an in business woman, we're still at the bottom here in canada, and these are our own lands. so the systemic racism has to stop british government administers have described a decline in rape conviction rates as shameful and softer review found that
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thousands of victims have just been denied. justice officials have apologize, but activists say that's just not enough usual 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 it's, you know, the real proof of the pudding will be in the eating, you know, the real difference, the victim arrive is, will come if and when the proper measures are taken to improve the situation for the future. the long awaited review reveals more than half of the victims drop their cases, many out of fear, and only 1.5 percent of them actually see their suspected attacker charged the prob, blamed intrusive police questioning and an excessively long court process. but the
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government's now introduced a school card system to assess the speed with which cases get to court and victim satisfaction. the 1st results will be published by december. however, katie russell, again says the short term measures will not solve the issue of the 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, 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. ready 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 has declared
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a state of emergency and made severe flooding, which is left at least one person dead and dozens injured, almost 2000 people had to be evacuated from their homes. the, with me, we do do some of the people who fled the affected areas as well each and every one of them has told me that they do not recall anything of this scale not even close. in fact, in the lifetime the things that we have seen coming out of towns of casual yelled for some towns. in fact small towns around them. they have been well quite apocalyptic. just told districts of towns submerged under water,
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cars floating around as if they were just, you know, motor boats 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 both of the major towns affected worst by the flooding. he is what he had to say to pick up. 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 shares. and unfortunately, the water is still up to the waist for the, for now, our goal is to help everyone to that. no one is left to faces,
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crisis alone. so no under statements, no mincing of 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 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
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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 gulp. 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 and illegal rave in france and in horror amid a police raid with one regular losing their hand. several others, including law enforcers, sustained injuries as officers swooped on the curfew defying party. the meetings of the event took place in the field and northwest france with some 1500 people in attendance. a police fire tear
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gas while party throw through objects on petrol bombs. authorities say an investigation is underway into what happened, including how a 22 year old ended up having their hands tall. and now despite a step, an hour long operation to dispose the crowd, there were still reports of police clashes on saturday morning with a diehard group of revelers. apparently, still partying in the afternoon. well, filled the company out here on our team international a u. s. senate pro concludes the f b. i actually had advanced warning of the capital riots back in january, but failed to act. that story animal in about 60 seconds. the ah ah
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the, your saturday stories live on our t u. s. police, along with the f. b, i apparently had prior warning of the capital rides in january, but failed to take preemptive action. that's the damming conclusion of a senate inquiry is can have more than now reports. that's been 6 months since a mob storm the u. s. capital on january 6. 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 shifted the blame on to donald trump and his supporters. is there any possible
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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 riots. here is some of what they found. need of 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 with 1st amendments, protected speech of limited credibility and acknowledge areas for improvement. in the handling and dissemination of threats, 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 began gathering information about the events plan for jenny, the 6 in mid december 2020, through open source collection tips from the public and other sources. the u. s. c
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. p. intelligence and in the agency coordination division. knew about social media posts calling for violence of the capital on july, the 6th, including a plot 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 was 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. president putin has taken the floor at a convention of the ruling united russia party just ahead of the september parliamentary elections. and he had a stock message for people who are refusing to take the corona virus seriously.
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that's a lot more about this se, se taylor has been following the president st. dusky could you see, you, can you take us through some of the main points or put in speech today while the russian president, speaking out that pre election convention ready, laying out his view of web united russia party, can take the country and more attention more funds that need to be direct said a broad range of topics that was covered, but real focus was on the youth. and of course on families they are the very heart of rushing side. he said they must be provided with multiple financial motional. or indeed, for example, housing thought and united, united russia has expanded payments on actually reduced stocks and taxes for families in need. we also did hear a lot about modernization, everything from pool to base. it's like roads and hospitals to the state of the art technology. and of course, a very pressing issue, cleaning up the environment and going more green spot to what future had one talk
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about. if one doesn't deal with the problems of the present, i am talking about the 19 something that's pretty categorically about good. as many of our fellow citizens suffered severe consequences from the chronic virus. i'm constantly in contact with specialists and medics and i recently spoke with them again. the long term effects of the vars are yet to be fully established . it doesn't only the lungs. it also homes the cardiovascular system. so there's still a long way for doctors to figure out what it may lead to. so i'd like to remind you once more, it's better to get vaccinated rather than full set with a virus richer. so a clear call to get back to corny, only around 10 percent of the whole russian population has had the job and really couldn't be more timely with numbers, especially in moscow. watson in daily and the last 24 hours to learn over $9000.00
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new cases. and now i thought that you're sorry to have tightened restrictions, and we heard that the most gray may recently say to 60 percent of the sub sector must get the vaccine. otherwise they might not be allowed to go to walk. so clearly a strong push to get the fax nation numbers up with president putin. i think his voice now for the poor thing is the best way to get back to monitor, which isn't everyone's interests that they can get on with building and shaping the future of this country. so really that was quite a lot to impact in, not more than our long speech, but i would say that there's probably the key takeaways from president putin speech on saturday. all right, taylor, thank you. if and to go on is a warning, the terrorist groups and i got this on could expand the reach after the us pull out and pose an international threat. the issue was raised in a senate hearing how would you rate the, the likelihood of international terrorist organizations like l k,
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to an ice is regenerating inside of afghanistan and presenting a threat to our homeland, our allies. i would associate as medium. i would also say center that, that it would take possibly 2 years for them to develop that capability. fair enough, gentlemen, i concur with that and i think that if certain other things happen, if there was a collapse of the government or dissociate disillusion of the afghan security force, that risk would obviously increase. but right now it's a medium and, and a about 2 years or so. there are all ready signs of the us back to africa and government as far as losing control of the country taliban has reportedly captured at least 27 districts since the beginning of last month. and there's now less than 3 months before the by the ministrations pull out deadline, september the 11th. although anti war activists brian becker, i think some senior figures in washington looking for a pretext to stay. we see here is
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a tug of war between those 2 are insisting that the u. s. they for ever an afghan is then and those who feel that the war is not winnable. it's a 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 complete that with the isis or isis is in afghanistan because of the us invasion of afghanistan. there was no isis prior to 2001. and all kite is us really weaken for so obviously the military again. yes, there might be a need to continue us military presence. yes, there's, and we m say a medium warning that i 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
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