Transcripts For DW Global 3000 - The Globalization Program 2

Of lithium can this new white gold offer hope to the desperately poor nation. But first we go to italy where Human Trafficking has come 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 per year. The majority two thirds 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 sea 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 continent scrofulous 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 princess kahn has made it her lifes mission to free as many of them as she can the phosphates one bad luck. Speech from. Them. And before long legal fees. We have to have my space maybe but most of that bank moves slowly they will be offering one maybe submit. It for her first approach of the evening. Princess has to be careful the pimps dont notice her. Out walked up to us today after 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 use going to the mall with the. Little girl. Princess and her husband alberto run the engine p a m which tries to help those forced into the sex trade if you like this desperate nigerian woman who tells princess about her pimp a woman that this is or that but it is if not said that a friend soon saw that they should be in a song called all us little so im so shock cause i didnt know it at all joe and hank so fond that i didnt have any choice buff and since elites. Its not immediately clear if this woman will risk fleeing her. Clutches. Those who do take the plunge can find protection in one of the secret refuges the p. I am runs princess visits the women constantly. The best part is when. They want to take the final decision. To go back. To look. As if prostitutes. And i see. Having to do that. They see 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 wake you need to get going and continuing his. Dang gold i lets there cross i came to eastley when i might force it was sinless beta. 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 in. The face did it took me to the streets. I started crying then i went the back of the does when i started asking got well why do you send me here i close my eyes open again i thought it was the dream then i saw that it wasnt a dream it was reality so later on when it took me back to the house the one said you have to pay my money because that money feels the 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 there. Was six to eight months. I was lucky to mits their bets and who can so listen to me and also find solutions to my back to. 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. Id only been put out there so you know 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 rechargeable batteries demand for Battery Powered vehicles is rising rapidly. And thats where lithium comes in the light metal is an ascent. Elements in new kinds of batteries the 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 salt flats. The only salt 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. In the brine is pumped into the pools 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 eighth 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 flat 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. Began to get the idea that our industrial plant will go into operation soon it we have the technology were just going to scale up a lot so we can sell lithium around the world. 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 or spend a little but it isnt that it creates jobs because were going to grow fast. In you know the cia i had a teacher at school who said one day the whole world will talk about us read up on him not because of our silver mines but because of lithium he said we would make batteries here one day said to be honest we all thought he was a bit crazy but now that im working here i understand the process of industrialisation depends on our commitment and on our hard work bill says of the new study says in the move to in a sort of muddy up 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. With an e. U. 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 is a heard of from news servers. But if a measure from my friends in ours of. Ours of a client yeah its true. Because of the victim resources here is more named sixty percent of total in the work but it has nothing to do with your job. I didnt get you from beijing now from our head office. What i was to the Twentieth Century live here might be to the twenty first if 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 it stores. I. Ok to cheat. Today we need to global team from back enough fast so the seventeen year old lives in the capital of the west african nation. Your opponent my names bare trees cabaret and i live in why do i have a big brother three big sisters and a little sister thats. The. Moment by my parents were farmers but major Road Construction work meant they lost their land. Now they dont do anything anymore. And therefore if. We can clearly i like going to school because we learn lots there and because all my friends of the. We never get bored listening. Boys your way is a see. One that will crack. When i want to be a lawyer because theres so much injustice. And there arent enough people defending the rule of law. Would be fine to say that but. Here we are but im happy when everyone around me is happy because when theyre happy they also do everything to make you happy. Shocked. Theyre doing. A lot of politicians in some countries only care about their own personal interests. And then they dont care about the rest of the people who work. There was a little bit. More federal where i thought. 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 freedom ended on some of them get really badly exploited. These. This week in our global ideas series were off to vietnam and nations suffering from ever more frequent bouts of extreme weather storms heat waves and cold snaps Rural Regions are particularly hard hit leaving local farm a struggling to protect their crops the coastal province of been is regularly hit by storms can it do to adapt to extreme weather the challenges are many especially given the countrys high population density reporting cast in schweitzer headed there to find out more. Eagerly elite vietnamese one of the country that has most news in the show. Impacts economy trains especially be affected by the storm first temple two thousand seven hundred in vietnam we have a sickening storm come to the country. And come from local thats why i understand the walking and happy life of people. In a specially with the poor people that dispenses group i think that thats the group they need to support. The people who live in. Their income mainly because its a lot on only had to rise can division and some fishing. And they have a small gathering but the women they also lack of knowledge as to use that knowledge and spews on the other that thats why they remain. Thanks to the project ive learned a lot about taking care of fish like what kind of food they need to feed the baby and what to feed the adults and ive also learned how to keep them healthy and i have to treat illnesses this project to help 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 him 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 sand invades our homes in the fields where we grow our food. And get. The only. Way. Were planting lots more trees were restoring the forests to try to mitigate the impact of climate change. When. The forest creates shade and. It serves as a wind break and stops the soil from drying out. The trees help clean. And reduce greenhouse gases. During the typhoon season the forest helps prevent the sand from drifting in from the coast to the village. Just a little from the fury of the storms. This really is a. Model of. Vietnam as well because. In these you see. The role of the communities in the. Forests. And they understand. That they will get. The. Costs. In fresh. Also. Be ma nature. Will be protected. And also very friendly environment for the local people to have a good income. Thats all for today but we love hearing from you so do drop us a line with your comment right. But. On facebook see you next time and tell than take cat. Came in. Prosperity optimism thats the power of global trade global three thousand. By. The move. Move move. Move move. Move. Move. Move. Move move. Move. Move move move. Move. Move move. Move move. Move. Move. Over. Pressers emotions and light. Just as a shining star among european designers. We met up with talk about her philosophy of life. Going into an official estimates more than one point two million venezuelans live in colombia needly and illegally. Already at all why return to mass while a. 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