a puzzle when you was the new one on this, you're still in the summer watching, please. ah, ah, this hours headline stories as americans celebrates a new holiday marking the end of slavery in the u. s. the supreme court blocked lawsuit against chocolate giants for using child labor and african farms u. k. government ministry say they feel deeply ashamed after a review ripping of rape victims. i don't think just support groups say the findings are too little to make. you know, i don't think an apology alone is enough to heal the hurt of the victim. survivors who have been so terribly let down and devastating floods leave one person dead and

18 injured in. southern rushes, crimea, province of authorities, declare a state of emergency. ah, just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow sunday, june the 20th welcome to the news r and r t. i mean, in the americas celebrating it's new june teen holiday marking the end of slavery in 18. 65. but the supreme court has also just ruled that forced child labor in africa is not something us food giants are culpable for taking up the story for us elia, the drinking 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 food for child slavery. this ruling has disturbing implications for future victims of human rights abuses, seeking justice against businesses and us courts. 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 they 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. in 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. 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 $1600000.00 charged laborers. i eat 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 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, 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 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. british government ministers have described the decline and

rape conviction rates of shameful is after a refute. and the thousands of victims have been denied. justice officials have apologize but active to say that'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 and survivors will come if and when the proper measures are taken to improve the situation for the future. the long awaited review reveal more than half of rape victims drop their cases, and only one and a half percent of them see their suspected attacker charged the prob,

blamed intrusive police questioning on an excessively long court process. the government now introduced a score 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. the new plans have been criticized by many, however, who say it may simply lead to quarters being filled on, potentially innocent mail. defendants being prosecuted, katie russell, again say short term measures are not going to solve the 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 in this recognition and this review comes after very many years of campaigning. to another of a headlines stories the russian region of crimea has declared a state of emergency amid severe flooding, which has left at least one person dead on the 18 others injured. almost 2000 people have been evacuated from their homes. are t 0 dollar for ports now from crimea. despite all efforts to the city of y'all, t a 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. how's? is up the street? people can't live and any more, but literally hours ago or rather

a couple of days ago, cars were 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 for peace care. the situation is 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 with for now, our goal is to help everyone so that no one is left to faces. 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 the 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, 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. compare to what is happening right now and the city is also bracing for more just in case more rain is to come. indigenous canadians are being given the right to use their traditional names on the official documents. it's part of the government effort to atone for decades of forced the simulation. we spoke to indigenous human rights activists,

lauraly williams, who told us in no way makes up for the atrocities the state 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 or when the kids were taken to residential school, they actually were numbered. they, they had to go by numbers just why a small small staff that the government is 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 her culture, to take her name, to try to kill her. it's cannabis genocide against her 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 well on monday, the canadian government and non start indigenous names can be used in the original spelling for identity and immigration documents about 6 years after a report by the truth and reconciliation commission condemns so name cultural genocide schools will move also comes after the grim discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at the side of a former residential school. those institutions were a part of a country wide network in assimilating 1st nations children by removing them from their communities. 2 8 ah. 8 8 the. 8 do you mean patience, sir? did you, who 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. he did get harder, and yet you learn to shut down. ah, i couldn't talk a word of english. i tucked 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 within a year, i lost all of it. so i. 8 used to him, i tried to trying and night. i asked 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. well, laura lee williams again said little has changed with indigenous people still exposed to what she sees is systemic. racism, keller, this one school has definitely caught a lot of attention around the world. there's so many vision of leaders that 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, 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, canada, the doctor secrets there. so much systemic racism against ash

del to be. and this is exactly why our women and girls are indigenous women and girls to hear it are going cmc murdered at a high rate. you know, i went 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 illegal raven front send it in horror on friday night to revolution, reportedly held their hands partially blown off when they picked up. police stung grenades as officer swift in on the curfew defying party. the. 7 the event took place in a field in northwest friends with some 1500 people in attendance. police fire tier

gus, while party goes through missiles and petrol, several officers sustained injuries. authority say an investigation is underway into just what happened. despite a 7 hour long operation to disperse to cry, there were still reports of police flushes on saturday morning with a die hard group of attendees, apparently still parking in the afternoon. so i had this hour a u. s. senate prob concludes that the f b i had advanced warning of the capitol hill, ride spike in january, but failed to story more few. ah, ah, is your media a reflection of reality? the in a world transformed what will make you feel safer?

tyson lation community, are you going the right way or are you being somewhere direct? what is true? what is breaking in a world corrupted? you need to defend the so join us in the depths will remain in the shallows. i what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even frontier and let it be an arms race on. but very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, a very critical time. time to sit down and talk

the law again. a major fire has been put out in central most school. it's rage for several hours at a pyrotechnics warehouse and several exclusions were heard. at least 4 people were injured in the place which is bleed been caused by an electrical short circuit starsky taylor without the same with a huge plume of smoke, seemingly emanating from the center of moscow. the just a couple of 100 meters away from loosen key station, which one of the biggest port stadium in the capital of around 81000 seats. that was a conflicting report as to what was actually happening. once all said that it was a warehouse that caught fire from a firewall shop near by, but then it turns out that it was indeed a pyrotechnics warehouse with apparently 15 tons of inflammable. but then

that fire jumped on to a neighboring buildings to. we also didn't really understand how serious, serious it was until the emergency status, that they lifted the danger rating from 2 to 3, which is actually the maximum. what i can tell you is from the time that i've been here, i can see that all the way down. you can see all the way down got fire engines, we've got police cars, the stretch also, and not direction towards the bridge. but there are also a number of ambulances to the all confirmed reports from the mayor's office, i believe, saying that 4 people about 3 firemen and one employee of the warehouse have been injured. they, of course, immediately the medical personnel responded to that the site has apparently been contained. we are looking at around 500 square meters. at least 3 helicopters have been so clean. overhead that come, you can see that that bringing water to try and dump. and the flames, and they don't look like lot, but i'll tell you i was standing about they make

a head of a noise, but they also carry around 5 tons of water. so they have been thought clean for a couple of hours and doing everything that they can to bring those flames down. what i'll also say is that the smoke is actually behind these trees to my left. you can't see it. they've done considerable make considerable progress since i've been here. but when i 1st arrived at the scene, it was honestly blowing every what all the way down to the street level. and it was such a strong smell. i was standing that was basically and gulped in it almost felt a bit like i was in the middle of a sandstorm and i could feel it in my hat and in my clothes, the smell was also quite specific. it wasn't like the smell of a bomb thought you could tell that that was all to the smell that you got from spot clothes. you could tell, but that was something up from the fireworks. so that's the way it's looking at the moment. still a lot of activity out the site more and more information coming out, but i can tell you that they pushed everyone back, that there is a crowd behind the camera that's still gathering, still taking photos of people,

stopping, trying to get home at the moment. everything is still shut off, the emergency services are watching the farm and obviously watching at tirelessly so that people are just stepping back and letting all these people do that right now. us police along with the f b i apparently had prior warning of the capital rights in january, but failed to take pre emptive action. done the dumbing conclusion of a sell it inquiry. scale of moping takes us 3. it's been 6 months spent. 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

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 handling and dissemination of threat information from social media and online message boards to enhance law enforcement and intelligence agencies abilities to counter that 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 sips 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 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. the u. s. flag is supposed to be a symbol of freedom and justice, but it's falling out of grace with the walk of brigade. r and b singer macy gray

wants it to be redesigned to be more inclusive and an off it gray objects to the stars up the stripes being white proposes alternative versions with off white stripes and colored stars representing different skin tone. the singer calls the flag, tottered dated, divisive and incorrect down. she said out as capitol hill writers were waving it in january. it's now become a replacement for the confederate flag. her idea of a redesign has spar quite a reaction piece. next we're going to here. they are replacing our flag was a, b l m flag is just a matter of time until they renamed the white house. funny, it's a flag that freed the slaves. she would rather stars and bars. the stars don't represent the color of people. they represent misstates, our flag is a symbol of freedom and a beacon of hope to many. if she doesn't like it, i suggest she moved to a country where she likes their flag. mesa gra, herself, is started torn and divisive. should we get rid of her too?

oh, let's welcome jeff charles political analyst and contributor for red state dot com onto the program. good to see you. jeff. is the american flag dated devices and the need of replacing? no, that's absurd. i mean, i'm, you know, i'm not into saying that the whole set up in thing thing, but when people do it, this is the reason why they, they don't really know their history. they don't really understand what the flag is supposed to mean. the. she took issue in her office that she wrote about this with the fact that one of the stripe is white and that's supposed to signify purity and she wants to make that off. why? because america is not here. she is right about that american does have a troubled history when it concerns race. however, what she's missing is that these are the values upon which the nation was founded in these were never meant to describe a nation as it is. these are values that we must continually ascribe to, so we have to always push forward to attain those values. america was founded on values that were essentially impossible for any nation to reach. but the idea is

that we continue forward to get closer and closer to realizing those those, those values. so no, it's not tattered, it's not device of it's not outdated. yes, there are people who are wave the flag and use it for bad purposes. you can say that about any flag you can say that about any symbol. her position on this is quite absurd. that nuance he just country may have been lost. gray say jeff felt the final nail in the coffin for the stars and stripes was one that was used by the capitol hill writers. how she appointed the flag is edge towards becoming toxic for some in the country. you know, i think it's only toxic for the people who want it to be toxic. is toxic for people who do want to convince the rest of the nation that it's completely racist and that there's really no hope for it except for it to tear it all down and let them take control. for the vast majority of americans, black, white, or otherwise, that flag is, isn't not necessarily advice. it's not tattered. now

a black american might look at that in still recognize the history, but a lot of black people don't deny the fact that we have made tremendous steps for a matter of fact is june c, a holiday that celebrate the fact that we, that we a boss slavery, and we made it illegal in that we, we getting, we took another significant step towards addressing our original jeff arthur, bigger problems up than the color of flags out effect african american communities in the u. s. that gray could get stuck into instead, why doesn't she? you know, i'm not sure. i mean for i know maybe she's, there are things that she does to try and help the back community. so i won't speak to that because i don't know that much about her other than her music, but issues like this are kind of used to distract, right. i mean, in this is a lot of what the democrats will do. they will take an issue like this and push for changing the, the flag instead of actually coming up with real solutions for the black community . but the bottom line is that the democrats don't have to because they know they

don't really have any competition from the right. jeff, appreciate your time to thank you so much. jeff charles, political analyst and contributor for liberty nation dot com. thanks for having me . or i thought wraps up in used cars for no, but our programs are only just beginning side. it was being served up in romans, the quote me the these are the 4 people who pulled the trigger survive something on survival. one of the hardest things that i had the face was not having a face. i had a little patient that i sent in the accept the fact that i made that appointment. we had no fears. del change pretty fast for shots.

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