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The report citing malaysia's quote, significant effort toward meeting minimum standards krup graded that country to the tier two watch list. thailand on the other hand remains at tier three. >> today we recognize your steadfast efforts. >> reporter: the u.s. state department recognized eight champions for the cause, people who have made substantial contributions to ending modern-day slavery. among them cnn's managing director tony maddox. he spearheaded cnn's freedom project, aimed at raising awareness of human slavery by telling victim stories. >> i'm very proud of how across the news organiz...

But they use a lot more people. for the most part officials say the drug mules don't have previous criminal records. about half of them women, poor and vulnerable easy targets. and completely dispensable for the drug traffickers who recruit them. shags at that darlington cnn sao paulo. time for a quick break. when we come back the u.s. issues a report on the tragedy of human trafficking. and there is some controversy over how washington is rating two countries in southeast asia. that's coming up. and pursued a degree in education. but i couldn't bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer. so i t...

Cnn.com/amanpour. we want to go to ethiopia where the u.s. president will be wrapping up a trip that also took him to his father's homeland kenya. in a few hours, barack obama will be speaking before the african union, it is the very first time a u.s. president has addressed the african union. >> they talked about the war in neighboring south sudan. in a joint news conference, mr. obama was blunt in his assessment of the governor party's treatment of the press but also praised ethiopia for efforts in fighting extremists like al shabab. >> and during that news conference the u.s. president sl...

On tuesday. >> one is to communicate to its allies the new security environment, its new threat assessment after its decision to become much more visible and active player in the anti-isis coalition. and secondly, it wants to get the political backing within nato for what it's called its campaign against terrorism, which, on the one hand includes isis. and on the other hand, the pkk. >> reporter: these are all very intricate maneuvers when it comes to the game of chess ones that may not lead to the defeat of isis but could help diminish its capabilities. these moves not necessarily a game chan...

Conference in beijing and will ripley was there and joins us live with details. these press conferences happen very rarely. only about once every four years. what came out of this? >> reporter: yeah it is quite rare. occasionally from time to time, they'll invite certain small groups of press into the chinese embassy. so there have been over the years smaller events. this was actually a fairly large press conference. a full room of reporters. and as you said that is very rare for that to happen not only to see cnn but other print journalists here. so the fact that the north korean embassy call...