Retailers to improve factory safety in bangladesh, on the heels of a disaster that killed more than a thousand people in april dead. Ifill ray suarez has the story of singers and songwriters in austin, texas, the live music capital of the world, struggling to find Affordable Health insurance. I have financially been completely devastated to walk with with million medical execs expenses. I couldnt pay for that. We look for doping scandal ploong threetle. American ifill and Margaret Warner gets an authors up close and dangerous view of corruption and drug wars in his native mexico. Its not that i have a death wish. Im staying because i really believe in the mexicans themselves and i believe that the story has to be told. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And w
Difference. Its a continuous loop. The American Dream has become a global concept. I think its our countrys best export usa usa usa 2012 was a good year for walmart. But it was a bad year for bangladesh. It experienced the deadliest factory fire in its history. Walmart shorts were among the clothes found in the charred remains. But the company escaped accountability and for many western retailers whose clothes are made in bangladesh, its business as usual. Fault lines travels there to investigate why. Anybody out there know how many zeros are in half a trillion dollars. Take it from a numbers guy, theyre a lot. The fire at the Tazreen Fashions factory last november started on the ground floor and quickly spread. At least 112 people died. Hundreds of others were injured. Many workers were trapped inside because the doors were locked, and the building had no fire exits. The remains of the fire are still everywhere. This is where workers jumped out the burning building onto the roof of th
A pittance and have little or no access to Public Health or Education Systems as a result more and more people are leaving their homelands and risking their lives to head for more prosperous countries like germany so our question on quadriga this week is fair trade how unjust is the Global Economy and to discuss the topic im joined here in the studio by three astute observers and analysts beginning with mick cohen miscue not a specialist on migration and Diversity Inc with the highly respond foundation he says alongside war and bad governance the inequality of opportunity in Global Markets is the main factor behind the global Migration Crisis also with us is alan posner a commentator for the berlin daily felt ellen believes that the main drivers of poverty and i mean gratian of War Corruption Fragile states and bad leaders and noughts unjust Trade Relations and the world working to to raj each iran run a Development Economist at the European School of management and technology for
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Google deals a blow to huawei the chinese Smartphone Maker loses access to critical features of googles Android Operating System well hear what consumers have to say. Also on the show start ups try cutting in on the highly competitive razor blade industry. And bangladesh wants foreign inspectors out of its clothing factories well tell you what the countrys Supreme Court says. Welcome to your business im Stephen Beardsley in berlin thanks for joining us google has barred the worlds 2nd largest Smartphone Maker huawei from using many of its products its a big blow to the Chinese Company last week the Tropic Ministration limited the amount of business American Companies can do with while away googles move means while we now loses its license for the Android Operating System and for popular google apps such as google play g. Mail and you tube. There is dismay in europe at the news that many google services
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Showers in makes it feel cool but first up on this weeks travel show, simon platts heads to europes most High Pressure building in from the active volcano on the italian west and that means for most it is set to turn dry from tuesday onwards. A few showers in northern and eastern parts of the Country Island of sicily. Through Tuesday Morning and they will ease away. Long sunny spells with temperatures down and windchill good morning. To go with it. Still at levels above welcome to breakfast with Nina Warhurst where they should before this time and rogerjohnson. Of year and we stick with that much theres been an earthquake our headlines today on the south side of etna. More than 300 people have now died of year and we stick with that much of the working week. E la sirena, ecco from the coronavirus outbreak ho detto che sarebbe tornato. As more britons fly home from wuhan. In one of the most volcanic the first Death Outside china has regions in europe, an earthquake is detected. Been rep