Prime minister sat. On a crisis grows in a country by years of civil. Im phil gal welcome to the program we begin in brazil where the shah please rising coronavirus death toll is dividing Society Brazil has the worlds 2nd largest number of cases the number still increasing despite this president has repeatedly downplayed the dangers calling for lockdowns to be lifted to allow Economic Activity to view protesters are mobilizing against the president s handling of the crisis. The digging began before sunrise within hours these activists had transformed brazils copacabana beach into a shallow grave yard a memorial to the countrys 41000 covert 1000 victims and a call to action who gets up on to me official give me it is using this pandemic allowed all of our social injustices and the incompetence of the public authorities to america so we are here to ask for a change in attitude from the president of the republic and the federal government as a whole. Throughout the crisis far right president also narrow has repeatedly flouted social distancing rules at one point joining an anti lock down rally. The group behind this protest see he has a risk to Public Health and left the country my old and death and Division Tension spelled out on the real sea front with one man knocking down the installation. Rock. Bottom in my son died from this virus at 25 years of age and this guy is planning a round with a new sense of respect for those who are protesting that there needs to be respect because the beaches public and protesters have rights to. Look presents as true that nobody tolerates that anymore causing terror thats terror that silliness is ok. Both. The makeshift graveyard was meant to hammer home the human cost of this pandemic. In doing so it exposed the deep rests in a country polarized over its leadership. Well the Global Health emergency takes its toll on the World Economy the u. N. Is warning that millions of children are at risk of being pushed into underage labor with families struggling to put food on the table many children find themselves having to undertake exploitative and often dangerous work. Millions of children under the age of 17 are forced to work in countries all around the world the International LaborOrganization Says more than 150000000. 00 children are employed against their will nearly half of them work in Hazardous Conditions boys account for more than half of child laborers its not the number of girls could be under reported. Regional numbers vary but africa has the highest rate of child labor one in 5 children on the continent is forced to work across asia more than 7 percent of all children are employed and 5 percent in the americas by far most children work in agriculture most of them on family owned farms some 12 percent work in industry including dangerous mining jobs the rest work in the Service Sector including household servants the ilo says child labor numbers have come down by some 90000000 over the past 2 decades but it warns the coronavirus pandemic threatens to reverse gains and force more children back into work we can take a closer look at this with guy who is director general of the International Labor organization joins us from geneva welcome to you connect the dots for us if you would why this pandemic induced poverty and fewer jobs lead to more children working. But i think its quite simply because. Parents send their children to work or tolerate their their children working not out of any free choice i dont think anybody would inly do that because their circumstances leave them with few if any other options and as this dramatic social economic crisis is spreading around the world as a consequence of the pandemic more and more families are finding themselves in conditions of great distress indeed of poverty sadistic show that their poverty goes up by 10 percent we can expect child labor to go up by 7 percent this is the elasticity of their relationship so we do face a situation and youve been indicated very clearly that weve progressed very well in reducing child labor in the last 2 decades a 152000000. 00 is an awful lot of people still to be in charge labor that is nearly 95000000. 00 less than was a case 20 years ago there is a good response or visuals and it was just a very so given that the lack of options outlined. If families cannot put food on the table in these extraordinary times and there is a chance of bringing in income and food and feeding the family by allowing their children to work why is that a bad thing. But because charlie is by definition something which is harmful to the child you mentioned in your introduction that half of those that work as child laborers are working in directly hazardous or dangerous conditions that has to be stopped by any standard whatsoever more generally child labor has been demonstrated to be a. Something which renders permanent intergenerational poverty it actually Stops Development of the individual in the society and we have i think a very strong. Consensus internationally that we really have to work Better Together to stop child labor so what should parents in those situations do. But i think parents need help i think if governments in particular need to step up right now because of this relationship between child labor and poverty and hardship and this applies more generally i think in the conditions of the social economic crisis we face but we need to get money and resources to those most in need of it we need to scale up social protection we need to provide people with the means to live out this pandemic without resorting to child labor we have to be very careful i think as well where children have been pushed out of school because 1600000000 children have seen their education interrupted by School Shutdowns so it is really this that has to be done its not a matter of child families making decisions its about all thora he is protecting them good to talk to you thank you for joining us guy ryder from the International Labor organization. Well take a brief look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world produce Constitutional Court has agreed that the president elect should be sworn in immediately following the sudden death of the outgoing president. Who was due to take over in august after winning the president ial election in may he said previously currencys a died last week following a heart attack. The matter of us is here seattle says it would be illegal for President Trump to send troops in to remove protesters from a neighborhood that occupy i mean and racism protests the president had called on them met with mediately clear activist for an area theyve been calling an autonomous zone since police withdrew on monday. Before it was in london have covered up a statue of wartime leader Winston Churchill and other monuments in preparation for a 2nd weekend of anti racism demonstrations in the british capital some protesters taking part in recent black lives massive demonstrations targeted statues all monuments that reflect the British Colonial past and involvement in the slave trade. The syrian president Bashar Al Assad has fired his Prime Minister move against. Comes against a background of a deepening economic crisis in a country torn by years of civil war thats brought protesters out onto the streets calling for president assad to go they blame him for rising prices of plummeting syrian pound and their difficulties in making ends meet. I. I. Syrians back on the streets calling for the end of Bashar Al Assads regime career site in recent years after a violent crackdown on tears such protests in 2011 triggered civil war so theyve done a government controlled city in southern syria hadnt seen unrest or in the conflict but this week dozens of people have been demonstrating cleveland there is enough in the country. His deteriorating economy and the collapse of its currency. The syrian pound has plunged dramatically since the start of the conflict reaching new lows this week. People across the country are reeling from the crisis. The drop in the syrian pound is killing us we dont have any dollars we earn syrian pounds the syrian pound has fallen and the dollar is getting more expensive its killing us oil is getting expensive what used to be 500 syrian pounds is now 3500 no one can afford to live. On thursday assad removed Prime Minister iemma khamis who had held the post since 2016 see media didnt give a reason for his departure but he has been the focus of criticism over the countrys economic crisis a crisis that could be exacerbated by a new u. S. Sanctions set to come into effect later this month they target any country or company that does business with the syrian regime. The aim is to erode assads power but critics fear the sanctions could cause serious battered population to suffer further. So. Welcome to. So we have reports economic sanctions against the country and of course facing. Is this whats behind the economic collapse. To be honest i think its a bit of a perfect storm bringing together on go and economic pressures from the United States in the socalled seas or act crises in lebanon which is pretty prevented the flow of capital across the border from lebanon into syria ongoing conflict thats been going for for 9 years now the cost of rebuilding the state the cost of post conflict reconstruction even though the conflict still still is happening and then prior to the conflict of course there were a whole host of serious Economic Issues and Environmental Issues that had serious economic repercussions that havent probably been result as yet so theres a lot of latent structural issues that have been bubbling away erupting in violence in the civil war but have not been resolved as yet and so what was the president do looking to gain from firing his Prime Minister or some really good question because it doesnt seem to be that the Prime Minister was responsible for all that much in terms of broader policy decisions we know that the president bashar assad is the one ultimately responsible so perhaps hes looking for a scapegoat perhaps hes trying to create an opportunity to to rebuild the Political Alliance around him felt insulted by by the actions of his Prime Minister theres a whole host of possible possible reasons that we dont exactly know us yet but i would i would suggest that this is an effort to try and placate some of the demands of the protesters to say that the president is doing something right albeit far from enough to seriously address their concerns but now we see protesters back on the streets a street does appear to be repeating itself it was protest against the president that sparked a civil war 9 years ago in seeing any real danger. Yeah youre right to say there is a certain symmetry to things lets not forget that the syrians are incredibly weary worn out due to the conflict but they are committed to wanting change to him wanting improvements to their lives their hungry thousands hundreds of thousands of Food Insecurity they need to have a better. Political change and that but the thing that really poses a threat to the assad regime of the thing that will be worrying him and others in his car body. Is the lack of support apparently from from russia and from iran whove been relatively quiet and there have been longstanding groomers about concerns that teheran in moscow will be moving away from assad and if thats the case then Bashar Al Assad has a lot to worry about because without those external backers he would not have been able to survive for this long and i think thank you for outlining that for us dr simon maybe from lancaster university. 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