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in lipstick and mascara. harvesting the wax from palm trees in brazil is an industry in which, according to brazilian authorities, companies are failing last year, more than 3,000 workers across all industries were rescued from situations including forced labour and degrading work last year, more than 3,000 workers across all industries were rescued from situations including forced labour and degrading work conditions a ill year high. the bbc was given exclusive access to a raid with the federal police on a carnauba wax plantation. katy watson has this report from the state of piaui in north eastern brazil. we re heading to a farm where authorities suspect workers are being exploited. nobody knows we re coming. they want to catch the culprits red handed. we find the workers sheltering from the midday sun. who s in charge here? , the lead investigator asks. one by one, the men are interviewed. the boss is nowhere to be seen. it s so hot. we stop for a bit because othe ....
today from the kremlin, but i can tell you what, on this national day of mourning, there is a long queue of people outside the crocus city hall here. people queueing up with flowers, roses and carnations, lining up at the makeshift shrine to the victims of this attack. people have been leaving messages too. one that i read was addressed to the attackers and it read, you are scum, we will never forgive you. and just from talking to people here, there is a deep sense of shock at what has happened, and a mixture, i d say, of grief and also anger. one woman was in tears when i spoke to her. she said that she felt a great sense of loss and had to come. one man said that he wanted president putin to remove the moratorium on the death penalty. he was very, very angry. as to who was behind this, people here are not sure, but, as you mentioned, russian officials have been hinting very strongly that, in some way, somehow, ukraine is connected to this attack. even though islamic ....
in the 1950s who were affected by the government s decision to raise their state pension age in line with men, will find out today if they could be entitled to compensation. the campaign group women against state pension inequality, also known as waspi, says the change plunged tens of thousands of them into poverty. could this be the day they have been fighting for? waspi have been demanding compensation for years, after their plans collapsed. for many, the wait has been painful. suddenly knowing i wasn t going to get it for another six years dramatically affected my standard of living, and it s dramatically affected my standard of living, and its money that i will never get back. but i have accepted that. but i do feel that the government should have let me, and the other women, no that this delay was coming down the tracks. we had no notice at all. the was coming down the tracks. we had no notice at all. no notice at all. the state pension ace used no notice at all. the st ....
but the price of food fell last month for the first time since september 2021. 0ur chief economics correspondent, dharshini david, reports. up to the middle, and tap this. from food. to shoe repairs. warrington market hosts a range of traders with one thing in common surviving, ratherthan thriving, as costs rise. historically, shoe repairs should sort of increase on, you know, times like this, really. but we ve just not seen it, i think largely down to it sort of lack of footfall, really. people just don t have the money. instead of buying a pound of cheese, they ll buy three quarters of a pound of cheese. you know, which is fine, you know, but i d rather have the pound of cheese. for their customers are struggling, and notjust because of a hike in energy bills injanuary. mortgages, bills, food, everything. everything s getting more expensive. just struggling. some things are coming down but on a general basis, it s not really coming down enough. i essentially have to ....
me, trying to get onto these trains. a young mother with a baby is screaming because everybody is getting crushed. two years on, what happened to the people fleeing and those helping them? among the volunteers was this doctor. helping some of the 10 million uprooted from their homes. now after helping so many escape, she is still in lviv. and seeing the traumatic impact of war on her family. natasha is teaching medicine, knowing any of her students could end up on the front line. and now, she is ready to fight. you are a doctor, you save lives, but thought if you wants to kill? from the beginning at the station, natasha was hearing direct testimony of russian cruelty. some of the worst stories were coming from the besieged city of mariupol. are you from maria carle? we met this family, among them an 86 year old grandmother maria and her daughter. maria fell several times in a basement shelter. a year later we found the family living in ukraine s peaceful court 18 mounta ....