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now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk with me zeinab badawi, coming to you from barbados. i m on an historic sugar plantation where enslaved africans toiled in backbreaking labour during three centuries of the transatlantic slave trade. barbados was one of the earliest and most profitable of the slave colonies in the caribbean. this is the house on the grounds of the plantation, built in the 16505, where the slave owners lived in great style. my guest is barbados born eminent historian sir hilary beckles. he s vice chancellor of the university of the west indies and chair of a caribbean commission to gain reparations for the descendants of enslaved africans. what are his chances of success? theme music plays professor sir hilary beckles, welcome to hardtalk. tremendous honour, pleasure to be here. so, we re here in the part of barbados that is your ancestral land, your great, great, great grandparents worked on sugar plantations just nearby. what is the legacy ....
grounds of the plantation, built in the 1650s, where the slave owners lived in great style. my guest is barbados born eminent historian sir hilary beckles. he is vice chancellor of the university of the west indies and chair of the caribbean commission to gain reparations for the descendants of enslaved africans. what are his chances of success? professor sir hilary beckles, welcome to hardtalk. tremendous honour, pleasure to be here. so, we are here in the part of barbados that is your ancestral land, your great, great, great grandparents worked on sugar plantations just nearby. what is the legacy of that history of slavery here in barbados? this is where the global world and a small island came together 400 years ago. this is barbados, the first slave plantation economy in the world. this is where slavery plantation, british capitalism all came together. a small place becoming the centre of the financial world of the west. it is a tremendous history. a tremendous hist ....
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released, up 14 growing 12-year-old boy fired multiple around the deputies. the kids ran away from their foster center and broke into a home arming themselves and barricading inside. she came out of the home and pointer shotgun it deputies before she was shot and wounded. shots fired. female down. really after the 12-year-old surrendered he was not her. the volusia county sheriff s is the department of juvenile justice should have been doing more to monitor the kids. how is a 14-year-old so full of hate? i don t know what to say but i think you need to look at the system. what we are doing is not working. it is not working. that sheriff will be joining fox and friends later this morning as both kids are facing attended murder charges. fox news captures exclusive footage of migrants nearly drowning trying to cross into texas. a woman was assaulted. griff jenkins joins us with the latest. reporter: this is hard too common occurrence in the rio grande valle ....