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They said the delegation meant to come to caracas to visit him, but they were turned away by nicholas maduro's guards. tea is big business in india, earning the country hundreds of millions of dollars every year, but as christy lou stout reports, pregnant women are risking their lives to bring that tea to the world. >> reporter: tucked away in the northeastern tip of india are the lush green hills of -- more than half of the country's tea leaves are grown in plantations here, but the bright vistas hide a dark reality. some female tea pickers get pregnant while working and feel that they have...

Human waste from the dream seeps into the ground untreated and contaminate the ground water the only source of drinking water for the tea pickers and their families. this is a one we just not provided by their company. this is they have installed by themselves they've got a lot of water borne diseases even drinking this water they may get a diarrhoea and also warm because this is not good water but people have to manage because there are no other ways children are particularly threatened by contaminated water and on hygiene and conditions and yet despite these conditions rainforest alliance be...

Today said dry but still the road is somebody we can't imagine any serene and there is no current and this is very dangerous with a lot of snakes all around we see the sweet the base of the thought i let you have to be to behind which is open which is a breeding lease of the mosque. area the duty of the management to clean toilets all the family here on this. regime and waste from the latrine seeps into the ground untreated and contaminate the ground water the only source of drinking water for the tea pickers and their families. these easter hunt we're just not provided by a company. they have...

B.c. or should bring benefits to the workers too high a price that consumers pay for fair trade tea for example should translate into higher wages for the tea pickers that's the promise at least. this is how bad promise is interpreted in tom gonna go. we give the best blow cause we used to love. you know you used to calculate the average and this don't we have distributed a budget as to eleven what was. up here. and how many of us are young but here's a thought of decisions. eleven particularly industrious employees receive bicycles as a reward the remaining one thousand two hundred seventy fi...

A tea picker as well work in the tea garden is extremely hard and tiring but. it's also clear to the managers at the shop group that wages and working conditions need to improve. there's been a steady drop in the number of young people prepared to work under existing conditions in the tea plantations the younger generation obviously they're more educated and they get a little learning more they don't want to hand it on him to this job because they consider blocking over looking at the plot is it as a media job so that. as soon as they look at it or go to the eighty industry or people are movin...