federal appeals court on tuesday reinstated a lawsuit against food producers nestle and cargill a group of former child slaves from mali accuse the companies of supporting forced child labor by purchasing cocoa from the ivory coast. the former child slave so. waited to long for justice in this case in some the allegations being a picture of overseas slave labor the defendants perpetuated from headquarters in the united states the plaintiffs said the company has provided financial and technical support to ivory coast farmers in order to guarantee the cheapest cocoa nestle denies any wrongdoing. regrettably in bringing such lawsuits the plaintiffs class action lawyers are targeting the very organizations trying to fight forced labor force child labor is unacceptable and has no place in our supply chain we have explicit policies against it and are working with other stakeholders to combat this global social problem in twenty seventeen nestlé published its first report on its progress in eliminating child labor and its supply chain detail the main areas the company had been focusing on but

is looking atrn nestle. juliette saly is focusing on taiwan semiconductor.marie, let's get you. nestle and novartis. the ceo was talking about that. growth atganic sales 3%. what stands out to you? >> novartis just kicked off. they are really raising their profile in the competitive industry of oncology, buying the u.s. cancer drug maker for $2.1 billion. that was the standout from their earnings. they saw net sales up in the mid-single-digit percent earlier. nestle, they came in really bang in line. estimates revenue matching estimates. they saw improvement in the u.s. and china. they have a personnel change and that may overshadow the results. the head of its asia unit is resigning. departureirst major since mark snyder became ceo. it is a crucial industry for them because it is a zone that has been profitable. these personnel changes over at nestle good potential overshadow their strong results. ceo joins usis later after 8:00 a.m. london time. juliet, let's get to you. and taiwann sap semiconductor. wrap things up for us. that as at the forecast, the big

in twenty seventeen nestlé published his first report on his progress in eliminating child labor ands supply chain it detailed the main areas the company had been focusing on but human rights lawyer down cavalli believes consumer pressure is the best way to bring change. companies that can get away with forced labor or child labor will. will use it because they want to maximize their profit simples that i think companies have found in total war the space to be able to use for child labor and so that's what so they're using that's why these lawsuits are important because it forces companies hopefully to amend their action i think in the case of a nationally for example i think consumer pressure boycotts can work salut they have in the us including against nestle itself which is. frankly a bad actor in very different ways over the years. the un's humanitarian aid agency has confirms the deaths of twenty one people in a saudi coalition as strike close to the yemeni port city of her data a warning you may find the following images disturbing the attack hit a fruit and vegetable market ho

i with respace to nestle, awe the issue need be done on solid science. we can have economic development and we can have water that is produce at nestle. >> that's exactly the kind of gobbledygook answer that people are fired off. wrench its comes to nestle i don't think they should take the water off of the ground and sell it. i want to get the oil out of the great lakes, get to work suing on behalf of the communities that have pfas. governor snyder asked the attorney general to issue in in the suit? july and hey has done nothing just like the depends step up and answer the calls from people in fleets for two years. >> that's time. >> that's not time filed charges -- >> i'm sorry. you don't have -- >> we have to move on to in the next equipmentover want to come back do that on your own time you can do that later. the next question is bout immigration. currently several thousand people are trying to make their way through mexico from honduras with an eye toward reaching the united states and this migrant care hand vas poured jet fuel on the national immig

our attorney general hasn't done anything. >> i want to remind you about what we would do on nestlÉ.> for the environment o enviroy in the years of legislatur legie only though she passed concerning water was something about regulating swimming pools. that doesn't help families in flint. with respect to nestlÉ for all these issues need t issues needn solid science at the 21st century we can have economic development and we can have water that is produced to nestlÉ. >> that is the kind of answer people are so tired of. when it comes to nestlÉ i don't think they should take water out of the ground and sell it and i want to stop that. i also want to get the oil out of the great lakes. i want to get to work on behalf of the communities the governor asked the attorney general to initiate that last july he still has done nothing just like he didn'youdidn't stop off and ansr questions for two years while their kids were brushing their teeth. >> that is just not true. >> we've got to move onto the next question i'm afraid if you want to come back on your own time you will have to do that lat

with respect to nestle all these issues need to be done on solid science. we can have economic development and ewater that is produced at nestle in the 21st century. >> gretchen: that's exactly the kind of answer that people are tired of. when it comes to nestle i don't believe they should be diagonally the water out of the ground and selling it. i also want to get the oil out of the great lakes. i am going to get to work suing on behalf of the communities that have p fost. the governor asked him to initiate that constitute and he hasn't done anything. he didn't step off the answer of calls from people with flint. >> bill: that's not true, i filed charge against -- moderate we moderate. >> moderator: we have to move on to the next question. which is, about imimraigz. currently several thousand people are trying to make their way through mexico from honduras with an eye towards reaching the united states, and this migrant caravan has powered jell fuel on the national immigrant debate. michigan has a rich cross section of immigrant communities. much of the de

quarter these companies are struggling on the pricing front so unilever on the disappointing side nestlen contrast, a solid result the organic growth number is in line with expectations 2.9%, that was driven by higher pricing. >> the issue with nestle -- you and i were talking about this earlier. yes, organic growth came at 2.9%, this is a far cry from the high single digit numbers we had a couple years ago 2.9% is low. in this environment you really get the sense that this is a company that's trying to somehow reinvent itself or buy growth if it can't create it itself. >> certainly that's the struggle with nestle. they had an activist for quite some time in third point who has been pressuring them to accelerate the pace of change. portfolio change, portfolio optionality is a huge theme still for the company. they have been buying and selling assets just today they reminded the market of the various moves over the last year. the starbucks licensing deal we talked about that earlier they also pit up one of their key divisions for sale so they are making progress. the question is how patie

coca—cola and nestle among the worst plastic polluters.ound the world looked at the plastic to see what they are calling brand audit. the kind of brands that keep popping up. coca—cola and nestle and pepsico get a dishonourable mention. this does not surprise me at all. my immediate thought was, it's the people who have bought the bottle of coca—cola that has just been chucked away or not recycled, that kind of thing. because they literally sell their products worldwide, en masse. they are bound to find more coca—cola plastic bottles and say another company. absolutely. there is an element of individual responsibility but if the plastic is recycla ble responsibility but if the plastic is recyclable or even dissolvable in the first place, that wouldn't be an issue. that would be a great help. 0r issue. that would be a great help. or the manufacturer thinks about is end to end on ways to collect that, whereas, select it is off their shelves, it's not their problem. this is high profile. two of the three companies we have mentioned are promis

danone shows weakness but nestle is doing well.y well in areas like chilled beverages, ice cream, given the hot summer in europe. as are the types of companies doing well on the consumer front. , the supermarket company did well at home. that was a litmus test for a lot of investors on how well they do in france. the investments are paying off. if you are in that space and you can keep some of your competitors that day, this is a good market -- at bay, this is a good market. guy: at the beginning of the year european countries were complaining about the strong euro. what do they have to say this time? or will they not allow the euro to take credit? benedikt: the euro has not featured that prominently. currencies have slipped to the back of the conversation. what people are worried about is principally inflation. right now, it seems to be in check for most countries, but the trade war is one major headache for a lot of country -- companies. carmakers are concerned. the euro, as such, has not been a major issue. those gains might be

from what's become known as europe's most dangerous and violent refugee camp on the greek island of nestle's. honored for their groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics three scientists from three different countries are awarded this year's nobel prize in physics. you just came on me welcome to the program authorities in indonesia say the death toll from last week's earthquake and tsunami is now more than twelve hundred meanwhile survive as a growing angry at the government's response to the disaster with aid slow to arrive in the quake zone they're running short of food fuel and other essentials. days after the devastating earthquake and tsunami survivors are still struggling to get hold of aid fuel is in short supply here people are trying to collect as much pichel as they can officials are trying to assure them that more is on the way. and. logistical aid is coming in so the support being offered to refugees is better compared to a one day two and even yesterday. we still need more time to take care of all the problems because supply chains have been disrupted in the disast

the city of is nestled high in the indian himalayas at a dizzying altitude of 3500 metres.est mountain range cannot prevent global e—commerce from reaching its doorsteps. this man used to work as a guide in the region but when amazon opened a branch in his city last year, he jumped at the chance to switch his careers. let's show you the markets before we go because japan's has begun trading up go because japan's has begun trading up marginally by about 90%. 0f course, it was a really bad day for asia investors yesterday with a sharp fall across the board. 0vernight sharp fall across the board. overnight in the us, meanwhile, wall street indexes fell after yet another volatile session. we will continue to monitor whether chinese shares, how they are going to trade this morning. that is it for us. thanks for watching. this is bbc news, the top stories this hour: the bbc has uncovered evidence of a vast network of detention camps for china's muslim population. as the family ofjamal khashoggi meet the saudi royal family, president trump says the killing is the "worst cover—up i

beverage space looking back at some deals we've seen over the last year, pepsico buying soda stream, nestletarbucks lavaza teaming up with mars, and jab holdings doing a deal with illy so what is driving this? trying to get outside regular channels and adapting flavors to consumer taste we have got activists swirling around this sector we've had them around for a while. even if companies don't have an activist on their shareholder list, the threat of activism is playing a significant role that's part of what drove pepsico, nestle and now whitbread to make these decisions. on coffee specifically, this bonanza in the coffee space, coffee is one of the few segments within the beverage industry that is growing willem, back to you. >> thank you very much >>> separately in the united states, google has unveiled its new generation of flagship smartphones. the pixel 3 and pixel 3xl are priced at $800 and $900 for the basic models in what has become an increasingly crowded marketplace. the phones will go on sale on october 18th >>> and s.a.p. signed a 5$500 million deal with amazon for its cloud ser

nestle struck a deal with starbucks and this is a continuation of that consolidation.ffee, right? they already have a deal with starbucks. yes, and that's another strategic alliance where it is more commercial related as opposed to transaction. david: and now they will be selling illy. >> may have fingers in all different parts of the coffee supply chain. they own curate, they own pizza coffee, nejra bread. they have of the footprint to push out these coffee products. david: and now coca-cola has gotten in the game. they will have coffee shops all around. alix: that was something that didn't make a lot of sense to me. cheap, and it was also not an area where coca-cola has expertise. there a lot of geographical footprint and logistical operations involved in buying. coca-cola just got done reconfiguring its bottling operations and pushing them back out to take them off that logistics burden from the company. it's interesting to see them feeling pressured to jump back in and take that footprint in be competitive. david: it is british, and the ceo of coca-cola is british.

reporting the investigation actually sparked it made people think about homelessness when they were at nestle thinking about it i remember when i grew up in london shelter was a huge organization doing incredible work it still is but the story has got worse yeah and i think what you know the stories that you've heard there on the streets are one visible sign of it across cities across the u.k. people sleeping rough it's a really visible increase i think you know we think of a tent city springing up people sleeping in head rows in parked it's really graham but i think what you know poppy and kevin know as well is that there's also these hidden homeless thousands and thousands of people living in temporary accommodation it just isn't suitable bit better breakfasts the hospitals emergency accommodation people so for surfing on friends floors you know just really untenable situations for people to be living in so we would try to include some of that in our reporting but those deaths the sadly even less well recognized even less likely to be logged because they are hidden from view which is just a

second is how we are leveraging the global coffee alliance that we just established with nestle to takeur food business global. and the third is focusing on shareholder value returns. i had the opportunity to meet with 60 or more of our largest shareholders over the past few days and we are clear on the priorities, initiatives behind those. as we drive those, the expectation is the value of the stock today is undervalued. if we execute, we can create significant shareholder value. jon: a reminder of the importance of leadership. i saw you talking about that overnight on twitter. you spent a big chunk of your career at microsoft. paul allen passing away. give us a sense, in terms of what he meant as a leader not only in markets like seattle but also hoping to establish a company that on many levels put seattle on the map. he and bill were the cofounders. paul played a key role along with bill in the early days of the company. from theransition company, he had a significant positive impact on the community of seattle. i think that is what he will be remembered for most. with the success a

but a nokia as upon tang is a fan of nestle because they can defend themselves and defend outs. could recycle burke every year carnegie thinks aloe vera is probably the best skin remedy he knows it has a powerful effect on the skin especially when it's combined with lemon juice and other natural products. and still master spell it right is says ginger is the first thing he takes when he's ill under it's even better with a bit of honey and lemon. that's for your comments. to see it becomes a seedling it grows its first leaves. and then flowers and eventually the fruit with seeds of its own and so the cycle begins again but plants change constantly depending on the time of day. joshua quaid from ghana sent in this photo with a question for us. why do flowers close at night and how do they do it. the flowers don't only move when the wind blows. or when you give them to your sweetheart. it all happens so slowly that the movement is best captured with time lapse photography. a rose bursts into bloom. flowering plants open and close their blossoms every day not all at night but a. dif

sap, nestle, novartis.ough some of these before we started in a conversation with stocks to watch. ericsson delivering something a little bit better than was estimated. the ibex down 0.2% but a mixed picture for the rest of europe. what do you see on the map of the sectors? matt: a mixed picture as far as sector traded as well -- trade as well. you can see that we are looking at gains in health care, for example. looking at gains in consumer staples, looking at gains in a few of the other sectors, but losses in materials, i.t., energy. energy especially red there. if not a good sign for people along the markets when you see financials lagging behind. it looks like they are doing just that. we will take a look at the in the -- the individual names. what do you see? anna: a lot to talk about. we are keeping an eye on the earnings season. topefour has jumped to the come up by 7% -- top, up by 7%. sales better in the third quarter than in the second, described by encouraging. or --on up by four points up by 4.4

to the peace nestling between the three thousand meter high rocky peaks of long couple in the cell agroup. we have one of the most if not for the most beautiful ski areas in the world with all the slopes you can do more than just traditional skiing you can go cross-country skiing to ball going to bars climbing anything winter has to offer. in europe's largest ski region the super ski thousands of kilometers of slopes at all levels of difficulty connecting twelve different ski areas no wonder it attracts tourists from all over the world. locals are only linked on the descent so low. you see that. that's why we come here the band is a food is great. another winter sport that's gaining popularity in the region is ice climbing on the many frozen waterfalls like here at the thirty five metre high chair bellow waterfall in dar down the valley if on the other side the next highlight awaits the mountain guide who bought marauder it takes two terrorists to climb below a twenty metre high frozen waterfall popular with climbers. during. the experienced ice climber and mountain guide shows how i

to areas were closed with official saying this is the fifth biggest flood on the record in all the nestléas a whole is due to the storms a hard time of apollo nida was badly hit after its reinforced walls collapsed dozens of yachts were left on sea front roads while others suffered a civil protection unit has been mobilized to help locals and to monitor high risk areas around the clock. on the way how a massacre and they sinister melbourne campaign has got americans increasingly worried of a politically motivated hate speach. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. welcome back to the program in the u.s. the man accused of gunning down eleven jewish worshipers in a synagogue last weekend and a separate suspect accused of sending mail bobbins have appeared in court after donald trump announced his plan to visit the scene of the synagogue massacre backlash was sparked a

that was here nestling in the. sling is music scene is fairly modest so ropey networks with many artists from other places always on the lookout for opportunities to work together he collaborated on this song with slovenian new jazz musician dramatic. he and his fellow musicians used to climb up to the vineyards where they could make their music without being disturbed today robey days on the road the last teaching in workshops and performing in front of tens of thousands of people. my job has quite a lot of variety. it's like a big adventure. i need the excitement for me as well as an oasis of calm to balance it out and i have that here. i live up here on the hill with a beautiful view. it's nice and quiet on me so i can get centered again well for it well. hometown is both is a waste of peace and his experimental space. if you're afraid of flying you might struggle with his next of course where at an air show in western germany but not just any esha there are over one hundred vintage planes that the event so it i

this picture postcard village nestled in a deliberate rally into chino is home to just twelve residents. quarter is the smallest municipality in switzerland. everyone here is old in their eighties nineties everyone's old. platinum card out alenia seventy six she comes from cardiff but moved away fifty years ago today she's visiting her brother who still lives here many others also moved away with every really there's no working corner people and there are no families with children at all and. lots of people live here. now there's nobody. it is it's sad to see could it go in this state. that these three men are planning on waking up the village from its long slumber by turning it into a hotel and i'd better go do foozle or scattered hotel. the narrow alleys would be the hallways in the village square the lobby and the buildings would be converted into vacation cottages and hotel rooms. just like this one it's been vacant for decades you know what that means without. this bus timetable has from one nine hundred sixty s. time to seems to have stood still inside these granite walls. but did

coffee farmer they have few to no options now there are growing calls for leading companies including nestléand starbucks to commit to buying coffee at more than the cost of production this week starbucks said it's committing up to twenty million dollars to provide emergency relief to the smallholder farmers at the bottom of its supply chain. joining me now from london is just a saturday josie is the executive director of the international coffee organization good to have you with us so first of all explain to us if coffee production is expected to increase going forward is that going to push prices down further eliminate eventually a lot of farmers and then the price comes to some kind of profitable equilibrium. that that. is the worst case scenario i think coffee is a cyclical commodity it's a perennial crop it's a tree crop or so. adjustments to changes in supply and demand take time but what we need is much greater support from the industry jury in this difficult period and this is in the self-interest of the industry they need. coffee supplies going forward in the long term the future f

coffee farmer they have few to no options there are growing calls for leading companies including nestléand starbucks to commit to buying coffee at more than the cost of production this week starbucks said it's committing up to twenty million dollars to provide emergency relief to the smallholder farmers at the bottom of its supply chain. joining me now from london is just a saturday josie is the executive director of the international coffee organization good to have you with us so first of all explain to us if coffee production is expected to increase going forward is that going to push prices down further eliminate eventually a lot of farmers and then the price comes to some kind of profitable equilibrium. that that. is the worst case scenario i think coffee is a cyclical commodity it's a perennial crop it's a tree crop or so. adjustments to changes in supply and demand take time but what we need is much greater support from the industry jury in this difficult period and this is in the self-interest of the industry they need. coffee supplies going forward in the long term the future f

nor the nestle as a whole is on alert due to the storms the town of genoa was badly hit after its reinforced walls collapsed dozens of yachts were left battered on the seafront roads while others subtle a civil protection unit has been mobilized to help locals and to monitor high risk areas around the clock. on the way how a massacre and a sinister mail bomb campaign has got americans increasingly worried of a politically motivated hate speech stay with us. barack obama really was very european in his approach he would be very well suited . and brussels for example doesn't represent america is america for better or worse and i think what we're trying to do here is to let the world see here. join me every thursday i'll be all excited i'm sure and i'll be speaking to us a little the politics. i'm show business i'll see you that. would. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to. have to go to the press this is what before three in the morning can't be good. interesting always in the water. welcome back to the program in the u.s. th

treasury secretary would not i don't nestlé think would be a great idea but i want to get back to lindseygraham i must say though that his remark really surprised me in part because the united states has no power to overthrow or to push aside the crown prince so i was surprised by that and perhaps it was in a moment you know a deep anger and irritation and letting the saudis know that you know we're not going to tolerate this graham goes back and forth supporting the president not supporting the president engine cia i know lindsey. other areas jose donald trump said he's not to blame is the g.o.p. something significant losses in the midterms however we all know instance g.o.p. does not suffer significant losses he will take the credit when do you make of that snake that jose he's not to blame he's not he's not to blame when things are going wrong and he has any you know he's victorious when things are going his way that's donald trump or you i think part of this larry. we don't know the facts i mean we know that donald trump he oversees he represents the g.o.p. he represents the republica

earthquake and tsunami that figure is significantly higher than the one thousand that officials the nestle estimates they buried beneath the rubble to tepco poem a new question how also announced that's the search for victims will end on thursday at this point they'll be listed as missing presumed dead and to tell us has more from ballarat than it. it is a big increase in the government's official estimate of how many remain missing they put this they could together by talking to community leaders and village leaders about how many people they think are still unaccounted for in two big areas of the city and here in ballarat now there could be some double counting going on or it could be that people escaped moved to other parts of the ways and didn't tell anybody where they go and so we should add those have yet nevertheless for the government to be saying five thousand people may remain missing well that would push this death if the number were confirmed to be dead not just missing to triple what we think it is at the moment the government has said that this area of the city will be turned

astronaut as i mentioned nestle said it had. has been influenced by russian space officials that the crew has made an emergency landing at an unspecified location in kazakhstan and is in good condition search and rescue crews are heading to the landing site let's listen for a moment to that crew and mission control became aware that the rock the rocketry via. you can. find. the failure of. this straight go straight to our moscow bureau but our correspondent is standing by and me what more can you tell us about this incident. well the kremlin spokesperson has now confirmed that the astronauts are both alive and well and that the emergency systems of the capsule did work now the accident reportedly happened just minutes after the launch some sources are saying it was just two minutes after the launch that the accident that the accident happened and apparently the boosters suffered an engine failure just after the launch down there were similar accidents in soviet. in the soviet space. nine hundred seventy five and in one nine hund

because of course it is security to nestle's you need to know so mall first person deserves to see forces out there on their feet. fake a new clear out this is false of also ordered peace also. but the winds of freedom will be going across africa and france was to lose all its colonies. the independence of algeria west particularly painful in part because of its strategic oil reserves after eight years of bloody fighting the french were forced to withdraw. to both of you because of holes that. your days every so widespread it without all the gordy afraid to do because you're a doctor is a bit top of the face of sawyer know about the. border. but the euphoria of independence was short lived and masked i knew reality france retains troops faces and political influence over its former colonies the policy. was. that their bosses are mostly good pretty good to me. by pistol. told to shut up false and also most of them have all this all kicked out it about two more to piss off sort of applause security service that busts out good fellowship that are about equal caught up and going to double up