slavery remains a terrible and contemporary reaeality, experienced daily by over 20 million people overhe world, women and children n in most cases. reportew sent us this from the luxembourg gardens. >> this was the first time the french president presided over this ceremony. he said slavery was part of france's history, linking it to former colonies. he paid tribute to the former whoch justice m minister, recognized thehe slave trade asa crime against humanity. he a announced measures aimed at boosting and bolstering support at museums and memoriaials, dedicated to the victims of slavery. there was aningng, exhibition presented to the president.t. several readings of colonial literaturere and other french and france'ssent education minister, whose presence was important because of the schchoolchildren who took festivity. they created a cartoon in which they depicted a former slave who writes a letter to his former slave master who wants him to work again. he does not want to, he refuses to, because he prefers his life as a free man. >> north korea fired two short-range missililes in le

but in reaeality, illegal logging is also abouout things like this. this is a guitar back made ouout of dalbersia nigrara- brazilian rosewood--and it's considered to be one of the most endangered species of trees in the world. what i discovered in my early research is that illegal logging is kind of the monster in the closet that nobody talks about or even knows about. and i think thahat's an issue that really needs to be tackled. i am a wood identificication techchnology spececialist andnd analyticacal cheemist for the u.s. f forest service. i also help build the forensic spectra of trees database that we house here at the lab. goddard: our laboratory is the only full-servivice crime lab fr wildlife in the world. trees as a forest represent a habitat. when criminals go in and clear-cut a forest, they not only take down trees, but the animals that live in that habitat may go to extinction. likke any other police c crime , we examine evidence andnd, in a triangngular fashion, we attttet to link suspecect, victim, and crime scene with that evidence. lan