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Florida after blowing through the u. S. A Virgin Islands without causing major damage currently a category one storm its forecast to become a highly dangerous category 4 and could hit florida late on saturday residents are stocking up on sandbags fuel and Food Supplies the State Government has declared a state of emergency. Brazils president both sonar has banned clearance files in the amazon for 60 days this comes after increasing International Pressure to quell some of the worst fires in the amazon rainforest for use. Now applause cheers and crowds a way to grab a new goal last night the arrival of the environmental activists mark the end of a 15 day scene voyage from europe she and her team wanted a high profile low carbon way of making the concept want to trip and raising awareness of the threat of Climate Change United States is New Territory for the swedish teenager and its not necessarily sympathetic to coles knew before to well you know blue cross is here with a look at what is likely to be waiting for welcome to the studio. So how. Strip been received well we saw in the video a small but but committed group of supporters waiting for her as she pulled into Lower Manhattan with signs and cheers about 200 people but theres also plenty of reaction online we have the u. N. Secretary general antonio terrace welcoming her to new york saying in a tweet welcome to new york gratitude and the determination and perseverance shown during your journey should embolden all of us taking part in next months Climate Action summit we must deliver on the demands of people around the world and address the Global Climate crisis of course some criticism as well of this what many people see as a p. R. Stunt there was a Harvard Harvard political scientist who tweeted a few days ago while she was still on her way this is a 4000000. 00 pounder about 4800000. 00 vessel used in the worlds most exclusive sport do you really think making action against Climate Change appear something only the point one percent could afford is the best way forward going on to say maybe instead of going around the world in a boat you should just stick to skype fair enough but of course just because its a p. R. Stunt doesnt make it. It was a p. R. Stunt to raise awareness of Climate Change and to drum up support for the upcoming un the un conference which its done so it does look as though going to Climate Change agenda face something of a challenge in new york well thats for sure i mean here in the european side of the Atlantic Ocean gratitude burger and fries future movement are household names theres been huge amounts of Media Coverage following weeks and months of freds for future protests among students in the u. S. Its a little bit its a little bit less popular greg is not so well known for his future not so well known we actually have a map from the fries for future pro protests website you can see europe on the right us on the left and as we zoom in we can see just how clustered how many fridays for future of vents of any kind there are on the european side and how spread out they are and fewer they are in the u. S. Theres of course some reasons for that European Countries are smaller easier to organize in smaller countries but it is important to point out that on the u. S. Side we see them clustered around the coasts around cities where democrats liberals people who are Climate Change activists tend to live ok lets lets just hear a quick bit from the tube its strange everyone always asks me about donald trump. But i mean my message for him is just. Science and he doesnt do that no one has been able to convince him about the Climate Crisis you know which is c. Then why should i be able to do that so im just going to. Focus on. Spreading awareness and that people in general will start caring and realize how big the price is so going out to regular people not donald trump whos on the record not being such a fan of Climate Action just today its reported that his youre as Environmental Protection agency is loosening regulations on methane thats the 2nd most. Dangerous Greenhouse Gas when it comes to Climate Change among other rollbacks in industries which many in these industries are actually against they want the stricter regulations and we know how important this is because the i. P. C. C. The uns a Climate Change panel of scientists just came out with their key points that are going to be discussed at this u. N. Report just to give one big point the Scientists Say that if we dont keep warming to below 2 degrees celsius by the end of the century were looking at 280000000. 00 climate refugees and were already at one degree were no glucose like youre going to consume sport will start in football in the Champions League Group Stage Draw us hand in some difficult times to german clubs amongst the writing bundesliga champions by munich were drawn into group b. Alongside the english side Tottenham Hotspur reach last seasons final and then also face a great team of n. P. R. Red star belgrade of serbia. Now dalton will have an even tougher task in group f. Where theyll face boss alone italian giants into milan and czech siva Slavia Prague Group stage much as kick off in mid september. This is day w had years coming up next in business africa gonna suffer for a shortage of young people willing to enter the cocoa farming a business will tell you what. That presumably story just a. Dont miss our highlights. Program. W dot com highlights. Sleep. Carefully. To. Discover who. Subscribe to documentary to. The u. S. Months 400 years since the 1st slave ship to run from africa historians where you sense a brutal chapter of history from a new political and economic standpoint. And a taste for falling trying to get a new generation excited about the job when the pay is anything but exciting. And thats your business it was 4 centuries ago that the 1st african slaves arrived in what is now the United States of america in trade marked the beginning of years of systematic discrimination and abuse of black people today as a debate about possible reparations for the descendants of the enslaved continues to rage traces of the troubling history can be found everywhere including north carolina. The farm has been in the family since 754. 00 like many modern day white farmers fragile birds has to contend with an uncomfortable truth that his ancestors built their livelihoods on slave labor the 1st african slaves were brought to the english colony of free ginia 400 years ago in the years that followed hundreds of thousands more of arrived. Maybe the very light 700 for early 18 hundreds were 1st knowledge that we have. Here and one of them was family that brought back from virginia that knew that the bocher industry has. Benefited us with a debacle for right for a number of years historians today point to the role that centuries of slavery played in the Economic Development of what is now the United States very clearly there are some roots of American Economic wealth that definitely originated on the plantation and through the institution of slavery but also slavery was actually really innovative to the american capitalist system in terms of developing Financial Networks in terms of Accounting Practices Scientific Management to increase worker productivity a lot of those things are rooted in the system of enslavement it wasnt only agriculture that explosion at the enslaved other institutions like banks and Insurance Companies also traded in human beings so how does fred burke deal with the history of slavery on his farm i wish it had never happened. A lot of things would been much better everywhere had not happened but i never understood why and none of the black people who live around here and i were ever a slight i may have had ancestors. That were. But thats 150 years in the past. But for the defendants of those whose liberty was stolen the chapter is far from closed. Lets pick up on some of the points point stuckey made in that report thanks for joining us so a lot of german corporations were built on slavery but whats new about the debate in the u. S. Well i think whats really new is the recession of 22000 a really sparked a lot of people to look more deeply at the origins of american capitalism and its this story that we tell ourselves in this country about how wonderful American Innovation was at the turn of the century and that slavery was not its really a part of that and so a lot of historians in the past decade or so are going back and looking at some of the earlier connections to the emergence of american capitalism and the group of american wealth and you mentioned that it was very innovative to capitalism how so. Well you know a lot of people see capitalism and slavery as being 2 Different Things slavery being the sort of Old Fashioned old rule regional system but slave owners actually measure the enslaved workers productivity in pretty specific way different letters that they would use there are even publications that you could buy or you could plug in the you know bales of cotton pick per day so you could expect in slave person of a certain age or gender to then pick so many bales of cotton for the next day so. What about looking looking for what i mean its important to remember these things and make kids learn about these things as well looking for the can can you tell anything. Give us any insight well one of the important things that were struggling with here in this country is the role that africanamericans and other minorities play in that we have this earth that great white men built the country but they often did so with the help of many able bodied people who just simply didnt have the same opportunities that they did for him so i thank you very much for coming on the show. Well as well as making you fat chocolate to make you rich provided youre at the very end of the supply chain that is that annual sales are estimated at 100000000000. 00 but an evident creasing amount is trickling down to the Cocoa Farmers since mid twentys 16 the price of beans has fallen by more than a 3rd pushing many growers into poverty even some fairtrade farmers no longer make enough to live off most of them below the internationally defined poverty threshold of the 1. 25 a day one of the reasons is that just 6 percent of the price of a chocolate bar goes to us in the 180. 00 s. It was triple that the processes that manufacture the chocolate theyd make a much more significant share 35 percent of the price tag and at the end of the supply chain the retailers make 44 percent the rest goes on other costs such as transportation or governor is the worlds 2nd largest producer of cocoa the sector is key to its economy there are concerns about attracting the next generation of growers 70 year old yahoo shu has been a cocoa farmer for the past 30 years the 30 hector cocoa farm serves as his only source of livelihood but he has a major concern for sustaining his legacy and that of other elderly Cocoa Farmers in ghana. Yeah yeah yeah well growing older and losing the energy to continue the farm we need young people to enter into the sector and we need to support those who do so. Today some young people from a woos village in ghana as a shanty region are paying him a visit at his farm theyve come to know more about his cocoa growing technique and draw inspiration from him for their own farming aspirations. Among them is one of the children of theone phillis who is 23 years old he has his own 3 hector cocoa farm given to him by his father. Hes been cultivating for 2 years now and says his father success has motivated him. While one was i wanted lies that my father was able to take care of his family by growing cocoa after completing school i couldnt secure any job so i turned to cocoa farming and it has been a good decision. To. Wus who and his friends are receiving training under a cocoa Youth Program run by the global n. G. O. S solidary dot and its partners how they learn the proper application of fertilizers and how to manage a Farm Business among other skills. Solidary gods program called youth in cocoa has trained over 7000 young people in sustainable cocoa farming practices creating jobs for them in the cocoa sector and helping them to push for better pricing for their produce. So we found an opportunity within the cool speeds to look at these young people and work with them give them the skills training the mentorship and coaching required and also bring in the book kill Services Required for them to become professional cool pharmacist and all Service Providers who can provide service to support. The chain with cool as the entry point and possibly looking at the great coat of other cheese cocoa contributes over 3 percent to got his g. D. P. Supporting the livelihoods of approximately 4000000 farming households. These young people represent the future of the sector and continuity in guinea in cocoa farming. Or yohannes shoaling work set in kota and is here to talk about a fair price for chocolate i would know what you pay for a chocolate bar to buy chocolate but thats not going to help the situation is it what would be a fair price for a job above a fair price definitely needs to be a lot higher than what is currently being paid on the world market if you look at ghana you have a particular situation because the sector is regulated by the state so far my currently gets around 101400. 00 u. S. Dollars per tonne and fair trade has made a calculation that it would need to be 2000 300. 00 per tonne in order to earn a living income so thats way more and im talking about the amount that needs to reach the farmers the what market price which includes costs for transportation for marketing etc would need to be even higher than that so possibly something above 3000. 00 us dollars but i think its incredible that someone sitting in a shop just selling someone elses chocolate gets so much money for what sitting in a shop and sell it well definitely its a question of a power imbalance in the cocoa sector that you currently have so on the one hand you have some very powerful Companies Companies like nestle munda lease and