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me, i on this i was prop headlines here on our teeth as americans celebrate the end of slavery in the us. supreme court blocks the lawsuit against chocolate giant using child labor on african fond indigenous people in canada. a granted the right to use their traditional names and official documents. but our rights activist tells us it's not enough to make up but decades of cultural genocide. the government, both it all was the government who needs the decision to take the kids to take our languages to take our cultures to take the u. k. government ministers
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say they feel deeply ashamed after a review reveal to thousands of rape victims. never see justin, victim support groups. those say it's too little too late. no, i don't think an apology alone is enough to heal to her. the victims and survivors who have been so terribly let down. devastating floods leave one post in bed and many injured and southern rushes. premier province authorities declare a state of emergency ah, 7 o'clock, saturday night here in the russian capital. this is the international welcome to your story. america's celebrating is new june 10th holiday, ultimately marking the end of slavery. the supreme court has also just ruled, but forced child labor in africa is not something us food giants are culpable for.
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let's get an explanation. now. here's our correspondent ilia petrocca. 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 continued 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 for future
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victims of human rights abuses, seeking justice against businesses in u. s. cords. the ruling also sets a dangerous precedent, given corporations. impunity for 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 trafficked 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 effect 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 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
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$1600000.00 charged 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 isn't acceptable. that is why we are working so hard to prevent it. cargoes work to keep child labor out of the co co 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. expect even more emotional words from them, from the athletes, the activists and the president on june kings. but those who have been following
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this particular case won't stand the hypocrisy. we are celebrate in 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 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 practice
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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 force assimilation. we spoke to indigenous human rights activists. laura lay williams who told us that in no way makes up for the atrocities the government has committed for years. i've been trying to get my own indigenous 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 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 her 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 wall wall step. you know, a lot of our language is, are actually dying. on monday, the canadian government announced that indigenous names can be used in the original spelling for identity and immigration documents. that's 60 years after report by the truth and reconciliation commission condemned the cultural genocide as schools . well,
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the move also comes off to the grim discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at the sight of a former residential school. those institutions were part of a country ride network aimed at assimilating 1st nations children by removing them from that communities. 2 8 8 8 the. 8 do you mean and fear did you have was that 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. he get harder. and yet you learn to shut down. oh, the, 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. they threatened us with a strapping you spoke it. and within
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a year i lost all of it. i . 8 used to him, i ill drunk caring at 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 of 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 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 les williams again says it 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 different leaders that pass, woke up about this. i find when we we speak up about there,
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we have to repeat herself over and over and over again. and it gets tiring. it's hard, work grateful that these children are being found. we always knew that they were there and it's not just those children. so this is lawana can start to see creates is there so much systemic racism against dell to be and this is exactly why our 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 land. solar systemic racism have to stop british government administers have described a decline in rape conviction rates as shameful is after review,
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found that thousands of victims have been denied. justice officials have apologized, but activists say it's 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 more than half of rape victims drop their case as many out of fear and only 1.5 percent of them actually see that suspected a taco charged. the pro blamed intrusive police questioning and excessively long court process. where the government's now introduced
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a school card system to assess the speed with which cases get to court, and whether the victims are satisfied with the outcome. the 1st results will be published by december. however, katie russell, again says a short term measures will not solve this issue. 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, 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
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a state of emergency amid severe flooding which is left at least one person dead and many injured or understand almost 2000 people were evacuated from their homes, are equal, donald has more from crimea. despite all efforts to this city of y'all phase taking baby steps towards containing the consequences of the flood. there's only so much that can be done. but having said that, the progress is still evidence. yes, this is supposed to be a street. yes. houses up the street. people can't live in them any more, but literally hours ago, or rather a couple of days ago, cause we're floating here as if they were both. but the situation here is critical . the governor of the crime in peninsula has been in this city throughout the whole day. this is how he has described the situation here. and the efforts that the government is taking to contain the consequences of the flood of the situation is
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disastrous in many homes. those that are on the low lands have been flooded by water from almost the entire city of touch. and unfortunately, the water is still up to the waist. for now, our goal is to help everyone so that no one is left to face this crisis alone. the situation is very serious, both emergency ministry workers and the army right now helping out are taking part in relief efforts. but the situation is made even worse by the fact that this city and this region, it has lately suffered from a shortage of clean water of drink about possible water. and this is how the ukrainian side coleman said. this is what they had to say one, this city was overcome by a downfall night. sure. 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, encouraging today in yalta. unfortunately,
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this happened there. the lord god gave them too much water in one goal. yeah, some bitter sac isn't here at the expense of the people that tragedy him. they by the way, have been telling me that they don't remember anything of this scale not even close by the way, compared to what is happening right now. and the city is also bracing for more just in case more rain is to come for the pos here at moscow and illegal raven france ended in horror amid a police raid with one regular losing their hand. several others including law enforces sustained injuries as officers swooped in on the curfew defined party. the. 7 event took place in the field in northwest france with some 1500 people in attendance. a police fire tear gas while a party goes through objects and petrol bombs. authorities say an investigation is
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underway into what happened, including how a 22 year old ended up having their hand torn off despite a 7 hour long operation to dispose the crowd. they were still reports of police classes on saturday morning. for the diehard group of revelers, apparently still partying into the afternoon. sorry. so because of the sol here on our t a u. s. senate prob concludes that the f b i bid have evidence on advanced warning over capitol hill, riots back in january. but for some reason the f b, i decided not to act that story more in just a moment. the news join me every thursday. alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then me
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your saturday stories here when archie international, iran's top judge abraham would you see has now won the countries presidential election with a resounding 62 percent of the vote. after being congratulated by the outgoing leader, hassan ronnie, the new president elect pledge to earn the people's trust atlanta casually with a corporation of mr. ro, honie, and all members of the government, i will use the finance experience and reports of our esteemed ministers. i thank god for the people's trust and i hope i can justify to the people's confidence votes and kindness. you are my term enough to see who has served until now as chief justice of iran gone at almost 18000000 votes. 15000000 more than its closest rival . he will officially take office in august. now under iran's political system, the president rank below the supreme leader, but overseas domestic matters including that of the economy. well, let's learn more about this now. live to political analysts or try it more. how
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many miranda professor from the university of iran joining us here on the international. good to see you today. so thanks for coming on the program. thank you for having me. it's always a pleasure. the outgoing president has some new audi, generally seen as a moderate where many say he has a bit of a where it's more hard line with his views. how could this new leader affect iran's foreign policy? do you think so while when they say hard line, it's basically linked to the united states and that he believes that to iran should not appease the united states. he's felt in the past that we've shown great flexibility yet. the americans have taken advantage of that, as we see right now during the negotiations to re implement the nuclear deal. that is exactly what, what the americans are doing. again, they want iran to implement the nuclear deal, but the americans want to keep lots of the sanctions that they've implemented and
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implemented since finding the deal in place, which is a violation of the deal itself. so he's saying that we have to be more steadfast with the american and forced americans to abide by all of their commitments before we make any move. and i think that in general, he is also going to be moving closer towards the global south that the east to establish stronger ties with, with china and russia, which both have common interests with iran and a more aggressive united states. so in general, he's not going to be moving away from the nuclear program, but he's going to be moving on and he's not going to wait for the americans. profess mirandi. you mentioned that at the nuclear deal just few moments ago. we understand the biden administration really wanted to secure this round top version of the iran nuclear deal before this election. but that did not happen. why do you think they wanted it so badly before the election?
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while the problem is, is that the americans want their cake and they want to eat it as well. and so they wanted desperately to have a nuclear deal because they were pretty sure that mr. tracy will win. because mr. ac is a popular person. anyone, he's been leading in the polls for many months now, especially since the current administration is very unpopular. partially because it's been given a faith, has given it a bad hand with the maximum pressure campaign of trump and biden, and the corona virus. but it's a race is seen as an anti corruption figure, and he's also seen is very clean. and so his, his popularity has gone up for them. americans monitor their so they want this to do a deal before you came into face because they thought he would be, he would take a more firm approach. but the iranian negotiators have been said fast, they've been firm. the iranians don't want anything extraordinary. they simply want
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the americans to abide in full by their, by their side of the bargain. and in response, iranians would do the same. but still, american arrogance. i'm so sorry to interrupt you. let me just jump in just for a sec. if i may forgive me for doing so, just to look at the slightly larger regional picture, there's a new president in iran, a new prime minister in israel now as well. both considered to be fairly tough guys, or perhaps even more so than their predecessors. how do you expect president easy to deal with israel now? well, i wouldn't compare the 2 in the sense that mr. ac is, does not believe in apartheid. know, or is he f, know, supremacists like israeli leaders. the iranian position on the apartheid regime is clear. it's, it's, it's identical to its position toward the parties, south africa, the iranians after the revolution broke off pies with apartheid regime in south
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africa. and after the resist and manage to bring about change in south africa. iran this ab reestablish ties with the country. the writing position on palestine is the same. iran belief that ethnic cleansing is unacceptable for palestinians to be treated even policy is ready to be treated as 2nd class. citizens is unacceptable. and of course, what we have in the gaza strip is basically a huge concentration camps in the west bank. we all know that's how they are taking away their mans every day. and we hear about new policy and being killed every day . so the iranian position is not going to change, but i think that in general, probably iran will be a bit more assertive because i think he, ron will be more assertive with the west. and the west has been a traditionally supporting apartheid and palestine just as it has been supporting wobblies. i'm an extremist groups in this region alongside the regional allies. i
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think you will be more assertive and iran will move towards strengthening ties with friends. the countries in the non western world, i'm sorry, very interesting comments, professor for more about mirandi, the professor from the university of toronto. thank you very much for joining us. we appreciate it. thank you. thank you. thank you problem. well, the u. s. police, along with the f b, i apparently had prior warning of the capital riots in january, but for some reason failed to take preemptive action. that's the dining conclusion of a send inquiry as kellum often now reports. it'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,
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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 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 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 with 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,
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capital police, again, 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 . p. intelligence and in the agency coordination division. knew about social media posts calling for violence of the capital and journey of the 6, 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. for now, we're developing situation right here at moscow. we understand
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a fireworks warehouse is on fire near the city center and several explosions have been heard. the burning building is near lucian, the key stadium that the major fire fighting operation underway right there. you can see the helicopters dropping water from the air. the cause of the place is unknown to the emergency ministry says it is now under control and there are reports of no injuries, both on air and online. here at our c and the dot com. we'll keep you posted on this story on the rest of our developing story there at this channel. but for now, thank you for sharing your son today with us here at moscow. you know neil here at the desk in half an hour's time. hope you can join us, let me. ah, ah,
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