tv Documentary RT December 7, 2021 11:45am-12:01pm EST
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all familiar. are you certain that the world you live in abolish slavery long ago? ah, meek musselman. he's 23 and lives in bangladesh, in a place called nor holly. i will now my love is a model are worth if i did on on what actually isn't on the i'm a familiar to the national play markers as it was the type divided by shop for a foot. milo activity doesn't only bite of the cost with not long ago mohammed parties, university entrance exam. i was never able to start his studies.
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ah, mohammed's father, no lament used to work at the break out, but he was injured under the most his other zoe dunwoody. again, i guess i was eligible for the shop about boys. that guy. i was on money out of a live. they got it. thank you. we have, uh huh. fucking boy said, well, monday, one of the and the zip i do, they, she has it in about the last 2. hey, marcella. linda roneesh off. i have is only $33.00 and i'm pretty are pretty awesome. and then it will left obama. i think it's ah, mohammed had to take his father's place at the brickyard with his family,
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needed the money. bangladesh has seen a boom in construction over the last decade. with a population of around a $160000000.00. people need some way to live in comes a low. so there are plenty of factories that make cheap bricks. no one knows exactly how many, but it could amount to between 8 and 10000. around 20 percent of them are illegal. but even the factories that work within the law of a working conditions that are far from either comfortable or safe, they don't just employ men, but women and children to it was mostly men working at the brickyard that allowed us to film. but a few children also managed to get on camera times with the whole families and even villages come to work here. bricks can't be fired
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during the rainy season. wet weather floods the kilns. they say that this break yard off as good working conditions. the labor as maintained that it provides fine living conditions and 3 meals a day. none of them actually said that the owner instructed all of the work is to give no interviews on pain of dismissal. the production process is straight forward. the clay is collected from a quarry and brought closer to the brickyard. then it's mixed with water to the right consistency. the wet clay is then poured into wood moulds. the production process is mostly carried out by hand. some mechanical tools are used in certain stages,
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but only when it to boost production volumes. if you were able to compare ran mid 19th century brickyard to this one, they'd be almost identical. mohammad started off on the wrong foot at the factory. his crew had to work overtime, but the manager wouldn't pay for the extra hours. and so mohammed complained to the owner of several to look glove with the wallow group on the top 5 who am i gonna move to columbia? i'm a bull we see by our booth hub in up. i'll look him up glued in control. now look, a comical, the neo natal lucky, lucky by of which in thomasville, knew much loud, convenient for to get out of the modem with no delay because of i will, i will. i'm working bartleby to the dallas festival, to lie with the kill mohammad is talking about is when the workers put the bricks
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once they are dry and fire them for exactly 24 hours. if it hadn't been for his fellow workers standing up for him. but now being nothing left of mohammed but ashes and brake, dust it up all on will you have the money all very well for the other good that you love this service for packing myself with a will almost 3 o'clock. i'm on over here to redo it. i'm melissa that he'll go up here who would want to go to a local would a great, i'm asking a lot of money, does it a dominic actually will um hold on monday or tuesday, doubtfully. monday. whatever time will be from okay. the large load, i'm okay, i wanted to know that hopefully money goes to some other taken on unless he double
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validity. think with all the money that annapolis mildly about the so called a bill vision and by the people no laundry because they shall take more beach to dal. hi. i'm under college and it was new dot fidel i is in the manual with ahmed. good nathan mendez, i will the title, dalby brickyard. owners often complain that a quarter of the brakes crack after being fired. they use the losses to justify under paying but half and quarter break. sell even better than the whole ones. when it comes to cheap housing. anything goes ah, mohammed saw a doctor about his injuries and paid for the treatment with his advance. then he went back to work at the break out for the rest of the season. ah, i moved the machine at a middle initial on that one. that i moved
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and i thought i should get robert should get a medic minute about iraq. i was worried that the was how much it and i'm little glad off of route one. ah, this guy's also called mohammed, and he's another seasonal brickyard waka is 23 years old and comes from sonata biggie village is around. that's the one big serve in it, especially with a boy that i quoted big bush, but it wasn't good enough by you and i won't be available on that one isn't mohammed is not exaggerating when he says they risk their lives. i see that break dust from anywhere because it's the cause of severe lung and respiratory diseases.
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ah la michelle alec, the manager. yes. actually that will uh will it will it? good. and when and molly get done? yes, no problem. mm. the workers receive around $800.00 for 6 months of work, which is usually paid up front. they're promised separate over time payments, but generally that never happens with between the owner and the workers, there's a go between the same person who stands god over the laborers gives them their money. and he's also the foreman, often meeting out punishment. meetings on the owners behalf. ah, we cannot well hear about our movie. hello. hello. hello. hello,
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hello. hello. hey sal adequacy. it just so happens that mohammed's father used to be a foreman, ah, lower level dog dog for monday, the love of the door. they read a little. what is your last william the boy i found in every conflict. it's always the foreman who gets the blame. oh, workers are often locked into their hearts, so they can't leave as soon as they receive their advance. which does happen. sometimes. mohammed still re is not about of coming or winning. he was kept under lock and key like a hosted jewel prisoner. some workers even managed to call the police of the guys asked of lucia,
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and up on the al religion through saturday. i'm back with you. how much will have i think you see, what am i to the thought that there was a guy that boucher lose money. he can eligible my this. the garlic build was at lunch. i would say what that brought. it would be picked up on a fastball from isaac it up with one of our i never got a a oh nice. when i said what it, what does it another couple years. a go always at a home. this is what east philadelphia, what it a my name by the i don't know. i don't use that actually sounds good. one it might actually use i'm going my luck. you know? i got, i'm honestly limiting enough. i'm done. ah
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huh. it is going to a funeral village has died, just like every one else around here. he also worked at the brickyard whole of his earnings was spent so that his family could live in this village. the house he left behind isn't even built of brick fragments. ah, i die both of us when we get a hot viashi's dog, what is it there? by doing that? i'm gonna do that. i'm good as i know that i'm but as a i'm bypass that others a 1000000000. but what about out on the like actual i guess i'm done with william dot sunday. i think about it. there's no happy ending to these stories
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. no one stands up for the workers and their rights, and the brickyard own our faces. no sanctions. it's all too common, but it is their reality. ah ah, that money print thing is driving up the energy costs. and it's gonna force russia into the you. and for that to happen, nato and american military has got an exit germany. i call it air 1st. you say, i'm crazy, but that's what i'm calling with
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. i have often said transparency for the powerful privacy for the bell. this is about privacy or people. care about is power. tuning into sanchez become a symbol of the battle. the privacy information is that's what's going on in the world. a huge struggle with governments and corporations to want to keep information secret and others who the democratic rights should be pushed forward. and people have a right to know like in our minds to watch how assange helped shift the conversation around transparency and see what that battle has done to him. i feel like july might be coming to an end. we are in a conflict situation with the largest most powerful employer in such a situation. it's remarkably supplies to a
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crisis, talks between joe biden and vladimir potent are now underway, triggered by tensions over ukraine. we talked exclusively to the russian presidents spokesperson just today due to the rhetoric coming from the u. s. and e u leaders sounds pretty aggressive. we see plenty of think, news about russia allegedly planning an aggressive invasion. breaking news also this, our 2 people are killed on 4 more injured shooting as a public services center. here in moscow, popup condemns the e you saying it is acting like and not sig teacher shipped for imposing supposedly inclusive rules on language to be used.
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