Transcripts For DW Global 3000 - The Globalization Program 2

Reserves of lithium can this new white gold offer hope to the desperately poor nation. But first we go to italy where human traffickers are forcing more and more women into prostitution. Human trafficking is a highly lucrative business and its often linked to forced labor it affects women men and children. The International Labor organization estimates that Human Trafficking is worth at least one hundred fifty billion dollars a year. The majority to search is made from forced Sexual Exploitation the remainder through illegal work for example in households or on farms. In two thousand and sixteen more than forty Million People were believed to be living in slavery and women and girls make up seventy percent of them. Nigerian women have a decades long history of being smuggled over to europe many by italy the u. N. Says theres been an almost six hundred percent increase over the past three years of potential sex trafficking victims arriving in italy by say the majority of them from nigeria. The italian city of turin is the people traffickers gateway to europe. From here criminals distribute their sex slaves to the continents crawfords and curbsides women lured here with lies about the good jobs supposedly waiting for them more than nine thousand were smuggled into italy in twenty sixteen alone. Has made it her lifes mission to free as many of them as she can afford for one bad luck. Big moment. They give them. Before. They have minds maybe most of the groups its all they will be offering one month maybe submit. It for. Her first approach of the evening. Princess has to be careful of him stone notice her. Out walk to get the app that this woman says shes been working here every day for two years when her children are older she says shell finally be able to get away now princess warns her to always use condoms and she says she does go to the mall with the. Handful. Princess and her husband alberto run the engine a m. Which tries to help those forced into the sex trade like this desperate nigerian woman who tells princess about her pimp a woman this is going to ship to. A friend so. They should give me some. So im so shock was i need an old job and. So found i didnt have any choice. Its not immediately clear if this woman will risk fleeing her pimps clutches. Those who do take the plunge can find protection in one of the secret refuges the p. I am runs. Visits the women constantly. To look. As opposed to. Having. Ac and iommi live in one of the refuges the two friends are safe here but isolated and they miss their Freedom Still its worlds away from prostitution or the horrors they suffered making their way here through libya. I was arrested and somehow read once so the people i was the everything and the beats missed me with rod sometimes the state dugongs and whats in those in the night everybody up at the time leavens wife was there we queued it to get going and continually news. Dang god i lets day cross i came to eastley when i came much force it was seen lots better. Still trying to get over the pains i funded that it was even worse because i have to use my body to make the money. Princess has first hand experience of that having been trafficked to turn herself. Fortunately she met her husband alberto and now they lead a happy family life she left nigeria when she was twenty three she had hoped to work as a cook in italy instead she was sold to an unknown woman. The first did it took me to the streets. I started crying when i winced the back of the does when i started asking got well you why do you send me here i close my eyes open again i thought it was a dream then i saw that it wasnt a dream it was reality so literally took me back to the house the one said you have to pay my money because that money if you still return my money so she broke my head with the heel of the shoe when i came back from the hospital that was when i know that it is very serious. You know it was. Most six to eight months. I was lucky to myths there are bits of who can listen to me and also find solutions to my data. Its no coincidence that turin became a Human Trafficking hub. In the one nine hundred eighty s. Nigeria opened a consulate here the people traffickers were quick to take advantage of it to organize visas for their victims it was the beginning of a brutal business. Sometimes princess and alberto take young women who havent yet fallen prey to traffickers on a special tour of the city. Showing them the realities of street prostitution. I dont even put out we are going to be in a good seat. Be our guest now walking. Remember that i was there one day. This night. This evenings two passengers can barely grasp the idea that women just like themselves are being openly marketed here on the streets like meat. This is a fate princess wants to save as many women from as possible and although Human Trafficking is still on the rise she says shell never give up. The. Smart phones laptops tablets electric powered vehicles like hybrid electric cars and electric scooters all of them depend on a Rechargeable Battery and demand for Battery Powered vehicles is rising rapidly. And thats where lithium comes and the light metal is an ascent. Elements in new kinds of batteries get a nickname. In two thousand and fifteen the price of lithium was almost seven thousand dollars per tonne since then its almost tripled its found in abundance in chile argentina and believe. Has been slow to exploit its extensive reserves i three thousand five hundred meters above sea level inside. The wilds not just. The flat is the Worlds Largest beneath the crust is a pool of brine containing the Worlds Largest known deposit of lithium an estimated nine million tons of it. The metal is a resource of immense value and could have a huge impact on the economy of bolivia currently the poorest country in south america. Big trucks and other heavy equipment are now crisscrossing the otherwise pristine white surface. New extraction facilities are under construction in this fragile ecosystem. At the moment evaporation pools cover just one half of one percent of the salt flat this is still a Pilot Project but the government has approved plans to open a larger area of the salt flats for lithium extraction. The brine is pumped into the cools in the first one heavier metals are left behind as the water evaporates. The remaining water is then pumped into the second pool and so on. The a pool contains the lithium which is very light but not yet pure. Ten years ago the bolivian government declared lithium extraction a national priority. At this small plant at the edge of the salt flats the state Lithium Company produces marketable lithium freed from magnesium and other impurities in a complex process. The pure of the lithium the better for use in lithium batteries and rechargeable lithium ion batteries. Lithium has become a hot commodity. The entire world lost after it. Begins to get the idea that our industrial plant will go into operation soon we have the technology were just going to scale up a lot so we can sell lithium around the world. More or less. The current facility produced twelve tons of pure Lithium Carbonate over two months six for china and six for russia it sells for the equivalent of ten thousand euros a tonne made in bolivia. For bolivia this valuable Natural Resource could prove a stroke of luck electric powered cars and smartphones currently rely on lithium ion batteries the socialist government of president evo morales has pledged to develop the countrys lithium industry with bolivia calling the shots. Foreign investors and companies should play a smaller role as possible. Everybody here at the plant from the boss to the drivers is proud to be involved. Its an honor to be part of something that might one day bring enduring prosperity to our country if theyre going to use because it creates jobs because were going to grow fast. You know the cia had a teacher at school who said one day the whole world will talk about us i will read up on your not because of our silver mines but because of lithium he said we would make batteries here one day to be honest we all thought he was a bit crazy but now the time working here i understand the process of industrialisation depends on our commitment and on our hard work says that the new study says in the motel in a sort of. Bell and the riata is responsible for safety at the plant lithium has created a thousand jobs here staff at the plant work for two weeks and then have a week off shes taking the bus home to part of c. Its a four hour ride. We visit her that theres a lot to see. At an elevation of over four thousand meters the city is one of the highest in the world since colonial times its over and ten mines have made its foreign owners rich and its workers sick its been reported that hundreds of children still work in the mines. Many bolivians fear that Foreign Companies well again try to take control of their countrys Natural Resources. Out of the most of my city is poor despite its Natural Resources. Now we have a Second Chance this time with lithium which we call white gold but. We hope not just to extract it but to develop an entire production chain and process it ourselves. As a nation we want to do it on our own terms. I mean. Outside of town as a factory for rechargeable lithium batteries its a major step forward for the country. Now its looking for International Partners to help develop the industry without them trying to take control. Bolivia has passed a law that says foreign firms may retain no more than a forty nine percent stake in any joint venture. Was being were looking for a partner with experience who is also able to keep up with the rapid innovation in Energy Storage technology. Thats our strategic goal. We want to be involved not only in supplying batteries for electric cars but also renewable energies. And here you know. Of course theres a lot of foreign interest in the huge deposits of lithium in the salt flats of all uni china is particularly keen. A state owned Chinese Engineering Company is already here. Its building a plant to make potassium chloride fertilizer and the plant happens to be close to the lithium pools. It isnt from news papers. But if a measure from my friends and. Also from client yeah its true. Because of the resources here is more named sixty percent of total in a war but it has nothing to do with your job. I did it gets you from beijing now from head office. What i was to the Twentieth Century live here might be to the twenty First Electric cars continue to take off the metal could be a source of great wealth for now bolivia is trying to ride the lithium wave and hoping to tap its stores. Ok to cheat. 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More federal whereas by paul. Well i dont travel very much but from what i read about other children i think that in other parts of the world they really suffer. Especially street kids and some of them get really badly exploited. And this week in our global ideas serious were off to vietnam and nations suffering from ever more frequent bouts of extreme weather flooding storms heat waves and cold snaps Rural Regions are particularly hard hit leaving local farmers struggling to protect their crops the coastal province of quite a bit and is regularly hit by storms can it do to adapt to extreme weather the challenges are many especially given the countrys high population density the force he cast and shiites are headed there to find out more. Leave. The country that has most. Impacts of comic chains especially the effect by the first temple two thousand seven hundred in vietnam we have a sickening stumm come to the country. I am come from local editor thats what i understand the walking and happy life of. A in a specially with the poor people that dispenses group i think that thats the group they need the support. Of. The people who live in. That income mainly the plains a lot on only had to rise can division and some fishing. And they have a small gathering but the women also lack of knowledge and skews that knowledge and skews all know. That thats why we support their women. Thanks to the project ive learned a lot about taking care of my fish like what kind of food they need to feed the baby and what to feed the adults ive also learned how to keep them healthy and i have to treat illnesses this project helps create jobs are also my fish at the market and that means income for my family while. I was born and grew up in the village. For me the most important thing here is the people and really connected to them. Were friendly and open. We stick together and we help each other. Oh villages hit by natural disasters every year we reckon with one or two typhoons every season as well as one or two major floods with all the strains of that he wins was even more problems than in the coastline is receding swallowing up our land so learn the same time sandy invades our homes and the fields where we grow our food. Will be then you. Will have a. Very good planting lots more tree were restoring the forests to try to mitigate the impact of Climate Change fun read. A forest creates shade and a climatic buffer. It serves as a wind break and stops the soil from trying out. The trees help clean. And reduce greenhouse gases. During the typhoon season the forest helps prevent the sun from drifting in from the coast to the village. A little from a fury of the storms. This is really. In vietnam as well because. In these. There all of the communities in the. Forests. Respond and. They will get from. You are the perfect. Economic development costs. In fresh. Also. Our nature must be protected. And people can also live very friendly with the environment and for the local people. Have a good income. Thats all for today but we love hearing from you so do drop us a line with your comments right to three thousand. Votes. On facebook see you next time and tell than take cat. Opportunity prosperity optimism thats the power of global trade global three thousand brought to you by. The move. Move. Move move move. Move. Move. Move move. Move. Move. From. The to the. Business you get new come july from above and lets go right to our correspondent is in central istanbul im joined by the shock of thirty dollars Political Correspondent on those stories in just a minute but first this news just to get some of the perspective closer d. W. Up to speed on the latest technology. No. May be time for an upgrade. Becoming part of the future. 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