A Nebraska middle school’s concerns about the safety of its students led to one of the largest investigations into illegal child labor in this country. Scott Pelley reports. Bill Whitaker visits California’s massive lithium reserve to see why some are calling this the next phase of the Industrial Revolution. Photographer James Nachtwey has made a career covering the world’s most violent conflicts. He tells Anderson Cooper why documenting acts of compassion in the darkest times makes him believe in humanity.
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Acting on a tip from a middle school federal
investigators discovered a major american company, sending children to work in slaughterhouses, and what did you find it
that there were minors applied across the country between ages of
ten and seventeen working the over night shift, this was
a mistake, there's no way
This was just a mistake. How many minors did you identify
to minors at thirteen different plants in eight different states.
east of san, diego and south of palm springs lies the salton sea, California's largest inland body of water, spreading east from the sea is a giant mineral, rich, geothermal field, boiling
sodium and lithium. The region is being called lithium valley, and it's about to change. The auto industry
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eighty five years ago the united states outlawed.
Child abuse in sweat, shops, labour, a scourge,
franklin, roosevelt, called this ancient atrocity
so it was a shock in twenty twenty two.
To learn that an american company owned by a wall street firm,
children as young as thirteen to work in slaughterhouses, the disgrace,
was more disturbing because the company
p s, I is.
It also national food safety at its owner, blackstone
claims to be a model of management. Both companies say they,
no idea they employed children in eight states, but it was obvious to teach
in grand island nebraska, who noticed acid burns on a child.
In our story, you will see only two photos of children working in a slaughterhouse, because a privacy to with,
obscured faces are
the? U S, department of labour would give us, but too may be enough,
their hard hats, red p s, s eye for packers
annotation services incorporated the nations leading slaughterhouse cleaning service with fifty.
Thousand workers in four hundred thirty two plants,
king in more than a billion dollars a year, not yet seemed
likely abuser of children seemed possible
but not necessarily likely, and if it were possible.
You know. Maybe it was someone had fallen
cracks
rebel jedo is assessed
Nineteen year labour department investigator, who was sceptical, but she went
to ground island nebraska. Last summer, after a
school told police about ass
burns on the hand in knee of a fourteen year old girl, the student
explain that she worked nights in this slaughter house on the edge of town. What did the
Educators at walnut middle school tell you it's
to be
known within the community,
minors, but either are or were
working overnight chefs. They told us about children that were going to say
in class that had
and chemical burns they were concerned.
for the safety of the kids. They were concerned that
they were unable to stay awake and and do their job, which is learning in school because
been up all night right up all night. At the
a b s slaughterhouse, an immense plant that
uses five per cent of the beef in america jamie,
ask and butchers six thousand cows a day here, but each night the plant was
turned over to p s I for cleaning from
five and seven I am sharing
rebel, Jedo, staked out the parking lot
as J b s left and
he s ass. I came in.
and you really noted the difference in
currents of these workers that were coming toward the slate night shift. Could you knew they were? They were little. They looked young she
Leaved children were washing bloody floors and razor sharp machines was scalding water and powerful chemicals. So
rebel ghetto, returned with a team and
search warrant. She says
They found nine children at work.
A revelation that trigger
a national audit of p S. I am what did you find?
that this was a standard operating procedure that there were minors applied across the country to be made
thirteen and seventeen working the over night shift. This was not a mistake.
There is no way that this was just a mistake, a clue
work, air, a handful of rome
individuals getting through? This was the stand.
Operating procedure
how many minors de jure delphi we were able to identify
and confirm a hundred into minors that thirteen different plants in
front states. Do you believe that a hundred into the full extent not about
I believe that the number is likely much higher level.
no the department of labour filed suit
against p S. I, the company
responded with this.
P s. I has an absolute company wide prohibition again
hiring minors it added. We will do
and ourselves vigorously against these claims. The statements
p s. I checks. Eligibility of employees, including this girl, on a federal
database, but that database
It is well known to be abused in an industry that can struggle to find workers. The jobs are grim and danger,
and so they are often filled by immigrants who are desperate for work.
some immigrants use false papers to routinely beat the federal identification system
that is known as e verify. Employers have
for nearly thirty years. That e verify is useless if the applicant has bought bar
or stolen an actual idea, which is common and, in the case of the children,
verily verify was especially dubious. These were close
calls. In some case,
There were thirteen year olds working and they
identified by pierre society being in their thirties. Just it's not possible.
Statement when the suit was filed. P s- I said in addition to verify it has-
the street leading best in class
procedures, including extensive training, document, verification biometrics
And multiple layers of audits, the system
that they use automatically
ags, whether not someone a certified that they are eighteen or not and
count on our review was that
it, was regularly ignored. If someone did certify that they were eighteen
did any of the children. Tell you how long they had been working at flat, yes,
and how long was that we
looked back at a three year period, so we
confirm that they had minors working there as early
Two thousand nineteen phil
weeks after its vow to vigorously defend itself.
P s, I settled with the government, it did not dispute
finding that it hired children.
Ps. I promise not to do so in the future and agree
to regular audits, the company paid
maximum fine of one point: five million dollars which was,
one per cent of its cash on hand. The settlement,
ended the suit, but it did
Answer the question why the children,
pay was the same as adults. So why
a higher kids
Secondly, my david:
insight into this question and in
the desperation of the workers, people
I know we need money to survive, to pay bills to pay rent,
For me is not we'll just me,
We didn't that job lemme have worked.
p s, I, as an adult in another plant? She told us-
it was obvious some co workers were children,
they have a days from like my kids. Aren't they
They should be in a school dinners,
be there for
like adult, is hard. You came.
you're for our children.
Is no easy. Do you believe that the
revisers had p s. I knew that these were children, that they were hiring
they know about it. They will say nothing because isn't
I just need the people to get the job done, people to get the job done. You could put it away.
Jessica lima told us turnover of workers was high in the tough overnight jobs, but there was
never let up in the pressure to get the slaughterhouses open by dawn.
in grand island? Many are at fault,
county court to parents had been convicted of child abuse or endangerment for sending kids to the plant. A mother
was sentenced to sixty days,
blame and in this audio recording a step farther is being sentenced to thirty days by judge
arthur wetzel
slay. The company that employed this young lady ass,
stanch lame forcing
Young children to work on a kill floor at a bee, packing plan
in photo identification.
The young lady was twenty two years of age when
fat? She was fourteen, theirs,
to be passed upon the mother who
take the false documents, so child could work also
Our friends in the room, J b s is lame. Blame
for hiring a cleaning companies such as this to conduct their affairs in their plan, parents,
just false identities. Children were coached to lie, but it was
two p s I to ensure its operations, didn't create a market for child labour in its defence.
Top p s. I official told us off camera we own.
this.
We know we made some mistakes, its inexcusable
p. I now says it has fired more than three dozen local managers
the sheer nature, the systemic failures. I've never seen. Systemic failures like this
violations across the board at all of these different locations. I've never
something like that.
For all the years. The investigation found child labour.
ps. I has been owned by wall streets blackstone, the largest
private equity, firm in the world, blacks,
told us extensive, pre,
Vestment due diligence show
p s, I had industry leading hiring compliance, but it's
aims that diligence failed to find
What was obvious to investigators watching a ship change in a parking lot. Still the
estimates giant says a claim of
sufficient diligence or oversight is simply false and yet
a hundred and two children labored at thirteen slaughterhouses in eight states.
But really really out
aged and concerned that this is happening in the country today,
jessica, luman heads, the labour,
parliament's wage and our division in charge of enforcement. In you
view is
billionaires, making profits off the sweat of children
This was a systemic problem that was happening at p s I and we have to think about
what this means for communities. What this means for
economy and
what we at the department of labour and across his administration are adamant about
that we will never rebuild our economy on the backs of children. Chancellor
I didn't century.
This is happening in twenty twenty, two, twenty twenty three on that we,
kids working in meat, packing factories and
we should all be outraged hard to imagine the callousness that is required.
Makes us all question
What's going wrong, neither
blackstone nor p s. I would make a corporate officer available for an on camera interview,
ps. I offered an attorney hired after the labour department filed suit, but he had no.
First hand, knowledge of the hiring of children. Today,
p s. I has a new ceo. It pledge
to, among other things, spent
Ten million dollars on the welfare of children.
In grand island the slaughterhouse owner J
The s told us it
no children worked in its plant,
J b s and other meat packers have fired p s? I had more than two dozen sites
ps, I told us we are
one hundred percent committed to
forcing our absolute prohibition against tiring children, as were the
old workers in grand island privacy laws prevent officials from telling us much.
But we do know one child is in foster care and others are with their parents,
You know, I wonder after speaking
to these children after exposing what
happening to them. What is Europe
for them now, I hope that their safe, I hope that they have
opportunity to be kids.
Score and not be tired, and if their
Where can I just? I hope that their able to work in us
environment.
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The transition from fossil fuels to sustainable electric power has gone mainstream. Most visit
we in the auto industry, the maid
your car companies are chasing tesla with ambitious plans for fleets of electric vehicles
those cars and trucks run on lithium batteries. The? U S,
has massive quantities of lithium, but
been slow to invest in the mining and extraction of the metal. That's about to change
lydia moderation powered by clean energy, are being
developed in a long, neglected, impoverish part of california by this
salton sea not far from the mexican border.
region, is being called lithium valley and just like the
team forty nine gold rush companies are racing to strike it rich.
East of san, diego and south of palm springs lies the sultan sea cod
for news largest inland body of water spreading
he's from the sea is a giant underground mineral, rich, geothermal field boiling with potassium sodium and lithium
it is a world class with him a source. This is
When you hear estimates of how big this resource could be, it's usually measured on annual tonnes produce and were cough
that this is a in exile,
three hundred thousand tonnes a year right now, that's why
more than half of the world supply of with him
exposure is c o of energy source minerals, accompanied based by the salt and see in california imperial valley. It
steaming ahead with plans to recover lithium use
an existing electric plant powered by
the vast underground geothermal, feel,
we're moving into an era of green technology, especially with our cars.
this video are.
More conservative projection would support seven and a half million electric vehicles a year.
It is half of the total. U s,
car sales, cars and trucks coming from
salton sea area correct. What about this plant this plant will be
one thousand tonnes per year, which is equipped
to about five hundred thousand vehicles per year,
once up and running the tonnes of lithium generated here will be shipped refined
and processed into millions of rechargeable electric car batteries over
two percent of our line up and our
tell sales will be from batter electric vehicles by the end of the decade, more
stewart is head of the lantern north America a globe
carmaker that own some of america's best known brands, including chrysler jeep,
ram trucks
it really is core to quote the industrial revolution. The next phase right this is the most into
Is there an exciting time to be a part of our industry? Stolen
is, is investing thirty five billion dollars in an end,
bishop, historic transformation where
re, imagining our factories, our assembly plants there already rowan plugin hybrids,
as well as looking to two new
battery joint ventures that are in for construction right now. The new
industrial revolution
Absolutely as it's really that the biggest technological changes in our industry and nearly a hundred years
we were down and the solvency region. They believe
can supply the lithium needs for all
fuckin car manufacturers- absolutely that is
case. Whatever they can produce, you guys will be by
We ve for sure will take as much
we can get in as much as we have. We have already secured early lucy
is key to power in electric cars, the day,
It's metal helps make batteries. Rechargeable
there's a lot of it around, but extract
Lithium is dirty business. Most
from rock minds in australia or as pie
evaporated from mineral ponds and south america
the? U S, has one lithium evaporation plant in nevada
energy source plans to break ground on a clean billion dollar facility here by the
salt and see in the next few months, so the planet
sit in this spot right here, correct, that's automatic! That's not a big footprint know. What are these? We call them the mud pots.
and they are co2 vents hot seo too, with fluid that's
owing to the surface, so this is evidence of the heat and activity going on underground, correct
the six hundred degree geothermal brine that powers, the region's electric plants, com,
for more than a mile beneath the earth. The boy,
in brine, produces clean steam which dry
turbines to generate enough electricity to power four hundred thousand homes in the past.
The mineral rich brine was simply returned to the earth. Now,
energy source plans to extend the process and extract lithium,
from the brine before real,
directing it underground. Our process
in combination with this resource will be
the cleanest most efficiently.
in process in the world
and how long before the lithium process
here, will be in commercial use in the? U s and twenty
forty five, a lot of the camp,
it's that go into the batteries have been coming from
were around the world, but that america, why
that we have a lot of decent
resources in north America they ve just been
Developed David dig worked for tesla.
traveling the world to find the best sources of lithium, as it were,
building up production of its electric vehicles or a tesla terms.
To the lithium ion battery power, its cars
kind of rechargeable battery sony first mass produced for its cam quarters. There was a new mark.
for a consumer electronics, but the vast majority is for electric vehicles, and that was previously
triggered by tesla trick
I tesla also
you know there's a lot of heavy growth and even demand
And production and in china that's been a big part of big part of the global,
demand story come on in
dick is now energy sources, chief development officer and says
He had a eureka moment when he saw its unique technology
companies lab deak showed
the mechanics in miniature,
the full size plant will be one hundred times larger. So why
goes on inside this cylinder. Is it
sir? What what is the matrix? Think of it?
beads in a in a column? Much like
the activated carbon that you would find into british filter. It works
in a similar concept of british, felt her well filter all impurities out of water
this sort of into something that would only taken lithium and
not absorbed everything else. This is
I'm takes just a few hours to turn this orange brine into this
Clear lithium solution which
We'll be dried into powder
whatever. What everybody's? Looking for? That's what everyone wants
here by the solvency energy source is leading the race for lithium Warren buffett.
h e renewables run
ten geothermal power plants in the region and there's another on the drawing board lion. Australian company control.
thermal resources, both things
we are moving to tap the promise bubbling under the earth
c, o rod, Caldwell told us controlled thermal resources had been found
tuning the process at this test facility for ninety days
producing lithium from live braun here behind us. This is our optimize asian plan.
Stop what it learns here. Controlled thermal resources plans to build a new plan for recovering lithium, which cost about
four thousand dollars a tonne to extract, and
Lee is selling for six times more. Noise is from the machines, cooling, six hundred degree brine wise
from the well releasing steam
he's a battery great fought from some say wrong.
This removes eureka. This is absolutely right.
Cool. It told us this bottle of clear lithium chloride is the purest product from
test facility? So far
the first time this has been my hands, as happened last, not bills that might take them home with us about ten dollars worth of lithium. I dare say you know it,
We not words
question here in the sultan sea basin is: will it work for everyone this
Rich lithium resource lie.
beneath one of the poorest sections of california.
the sultan see was created when the colorado river flooded, the basin and nineteen o five. But for the past
Fifty years the main source of water has been
local laden, agricultural run off and for
decades now the sea has been evaporating and shrinking.
a once. Thriving tourist industry has been replaced,
environmental decay, toxic dust and economic hardship.
And with unemployment in the region hovering around sixteen percent there's a
riding on turning the imperial valley into lithium valley. Governor
This call it can all the saudi arabia of lithium
you know I can change landscape of the winter frank rule
the audubon societies local programme director is fighting to include
the community in that change here?
the commissioner on the state panel studying how the entire region can benefit from the potential underground
you're, an environmentalist? How do you
reconcile the end.
The realisation of this area with saving the wildlife and the communities we
to learn about it, tables delete them. Industry can be really good. You know for these communities, you can do you know
for provide
they jobs. It can provide more job opportunities, especially for the younger folks.
provide their revenue sooner to us.
The challenge is: do we have here the solvency gene?
This predict once the industry is fully operational, listen
underground should last for generations before running out good news for
letters which ran out of batteries for its plugin hybrid g wrangler. Last year we sold out what happened
the fact that could turn back my
crystal ball bill. I would have secured a little more capacity for after last year to berlin
that from happening in the future. More
stewart ants to land is have committed
buying lithium from controlled thermal resources at the sultan, see no
It will be years before his product is commercially viable,
secured a large supply from them over a ten year period.
we are very positive on their technology, so
car carmaker general motors, which has
invested in controlled thermal resources, the department,
energy, and u s. Automakers are eager for domestic lithium. The companies
stung when the pandemic disrupted the worldwide supply chain stalling.
Shipments of microchips parts and batteries, sir,
today three quarters of all the theme batteries are processed in asia.
lithium. What typically happens I'd its mind in one spot, its moved across the world for processing and comes back
Think of all that additional costs. Think of all that additional carbon is being used to do that in the end, some one pays for it.
the consumer
So we'll having this domestic supply of lithium help keep the cost of
electric vehicles down.
It will certainly help prices for election
Cars are coming down and are projected to be on par with gas vehicles within a few years, driven in part by
tax incentives in the twenty twenty two inflation reduction act, air,
spammer of energy source, told us. The tax benefits
have also been a catalyst for developing domestic lithium, we're starting
a big announcements of investments, to the create that domestic demand
It doesn't ever have to go across an ocean, this sea,
like this is a game. Changer,
for american industry. It's a competitive advantage at an
eternity that we can be a leader
globally, and why not lean
when russia invaded ukraine last year, James Norway, packed up his cameras in kepler vast and rushed the front lines. Not way is one of the greatest war photographers of all time over the last four dec,
age. He's covered nearly every armed conflict in the world. He was shot in the leg in thailand, wounded by a boy
in El Salvador, mortar in Beirut and her grenade
in Iraq there was tossed into a humble. He was writing it.
It was not weigh seventy five now and, as we found out trying to keep up with him over the past year, still risking his life to capture images. That may be difficult to look at, but important to never forget
In the darkest times than in the
dangerous places james now,
way captures beauty and brutality, moments of hate.
And heroism since
was destruction and quiet.
Said, compassion. His photos,
as reveal the deepest and often disturbing depths of who we are and what we
due to each other. You ve said that for
Apps can speak and I'm wondering
you feel like you're you're, helping give voice to some of the people. You photograph, woman
The people I photographed are,
marginalized by the powers that be.
their silencer made invisible. So when someone comes from another part of the world and assumes risk
to tell the story,
people see us as a kind of messenger, not
has devoted his life to telling other people stories bearing witness to their suffering and sacrifices, but documenting would
cause. The insanity of war has been the core
his career. He spent dec
aids, covering conflicts in afghanistan in the middle east
the war in bosnia.
Genocide in rwanda, when it's me
as a million people died. Some fatah
we have talked about their cameras, a weapon. Do you think
Your cameron that well, I think it's a way of looking at it, because in a way you knew my
Fighting for peace
fighting against an injustice and the way you do it is by informing people about it with the faith
but will want something done about in ukraine.
At the start of the war knock way worked in and around kieva harkin for the new yorker magazine
These are images he took an boucher shortly.
After russian troops pulled out,
leaving behind the bodies of civilians, they'd executed,
which always horrendous
He was really like condom
what you re in terms of brutality of all the military's you have seen. Does the russian military stand apart in ukrainian for their behaviour, somehow the russians of suitor part not only in ukraine but in chechnya?
way was in chechnya is capital grozny for weeks and ninety. Ninety five and ninety six as russia
forces relentlessly bombarded the city the
arthur was inhabited by the chechens was pounded into rubble from
chill and rocket fire and air strikes for weeks and weeks on end with the civilian population trapped inside they ve taken that
Ukraine, but its throughout the country
In hark eve in eastern ukraine last year, we watch knock way as he worked photographing a man living in across space under a building to avoid shelling
months later, back in his new Hampshire studio,
We showed us some of the images he taken.
made this an image that spoke to you:
suppression on his face. If you really look carefully at his eyes, you can see
those terror and his eyes he
living in a state of terror for quite a while. This photograph
was taken in a cave suburb of civilians, evacuating across a makeshift bridge. Never split!
seconds that are occurring, you can be
running and taking a picture.
Quite often, I'm running and I have to try and make a composition, get it in focus and catch the moment. People talk
Your use of hands and images. Is that something you're conscious of
conscious of hands and eyes? I think those are the two most expressly hearts and people
This is a really good example here
That's the center of the picture, the old man's hand reaching for support to be.
Hold up by the volunteer. How many seems like this? Have you seen in your life to learning
gay did not raise photographs or on display in a traveling exhibition called memorial when it's
in new york, he showed us some of the sixty seven stunning images in it
is it the orphanages is in romania?
Anti ninety knock way help reveal the shocking squalor and neglect in romania's state run orphanages.
Crimes were just pack together
children in the groups and they were taken out to play. There is almost like a prison than away his photo
I was published in the new york times magazine, help lead to an international effort to rescue these children have, as a
I three years old, maybe have a look like that in his eyes,.
other walls in the exhibition were lined with casualties of war.
family morning in bosnia, father
checking his wounded daughter from gunfire in El Salvador,
those are machete strikes in this man?
driver of machete attack in rwanda, he couldn't talk
fourchan very slowly, and I just made
contact with my cameron, who allowed me to take the picture even
turned his face more toward the lay without me asking that simple
to that somebody gives
permission in a situation like this
I feel like. I'm taking from people
If you like
part of what I'm doing- and I thank you
stood. What his scars would say to the rest of the world. Do you get depressed by
Do you cry? Do you get angry? I'm angry
a lot of the time I mean when I see innocent people
pushed around and boy here. I've
depression. The things are depressing
but I think it's a sense of purpose, a sort of drives me through that you said that you
had to learn how to channel your anger. As a journalist realise anger can just saw you off the rails side
channel it into the pictures, and I think my pictures have anger in them, but they also have compassion
Was this image and others taken by the legendary life magazine photographer larry burrows in vietnam that open
ways eyes to the power of pictures when he was
student dartmouth, college in the late nineteenth sixties, brew,
photographs- had a point of view.
Feeling the reality of war for service members and civilians alike.
How did you start? I just start.
cold. I read
books, I would create assignments for myself.
Then I would go out as if always working for an editor and practice. Wait till you would just make up your own assignments. Yes, I said: okay, I'm going to go out on a fishing trawler.
believe it always shooting for national geographic or something
He landed a job, taking pictures for the albuquerque journal and nineteen. Seventy six
photo on the front page
but it wasn't until nineteen eighty one after ten years of training and not
he felt ready to photograph armed conflict. He bought a ticket
to belfast. Northern ireland were right
it's in ST battles were escalating. Did you know people there? I didn't know anyone. I was green. I just through
self into it. He's photo
Ass from there were published by newsweek magazine. I felt that I
in the midst of history as it was happening, and I was
I commend again and that that was really an exciting failing,
you were on the breaking wave of history
I mean, isn't done, which photographers do because nothing has been written. A situation is happening. We actually don't know. What's going to happen in the next moment
anything can happen
his unflinching coverage of the civil wars in central america, the nineteen eighties cemented, knock ways, reputation and earn.
A contract. With time magazine or his work
for the next thirty four years in south africa and their only nineteen nineties not weigh covered the violent end of apartheid and the blood soaked birth of a new democracy,
and was there when another photojournalist canister brook was shot to death in two
colleagues wounded,
Down on the ground, traded, not be, targets
the incoming fire, and you can see my hair apart from the bullet
through my hair, you actually fell the bullet country. Here you can actually see it on the film
here. It is again in slow motion, as now
way in the white shirt move to reach his injured colleague, a bullet like it
of wind, great
his hair. You ve
close many times to being killed? Is it worth it where these images
it's not for running one image that sets for the job itself decided a long time ago that if I was gonna do this, I would have to put myself at risk in any
think could happen. You clearly me
they commitment that this was worth sacrificing for war, sacrificing having a family for a realise that if I were to pursue what I'm doing.
and I was very driven to do that
I wouldn't be a great father- I wouldn't be a good husband and all that would fall apart. I just didn't want that to happen, so I.
Had the foregoing.
not weigh lives in hanover new Hampshire, where he went to college, though he's rarely therefore long his
If work, nearly a million images has been acquired by dartmouth include
his wrenching coverage of the opium, lloyd epidemic? In the? U s, and
Contact sheep from the morning of september. Eleventh knock way
just blocks away when the towers were hit, so that
The first image genocides rule one whose picture the proof
aids or a silent reminder of the horror that day but also
reveal. How knock way works his ingest,
photographer, documenting destruction. He's a man
search of meaning
we're gonna have from the sun
tower
small roman catholic church, with a cross on the top and other? There was a-
interesting way of framing it somehow indicated, but cultural difference between who is being attacked and who is doing the attacking and, as I was photograph have, the town
fell. That's what
happening right here starts.
Lapsing, has a photograph higher and all of this debris, this trial,
girders, I must have way tonnes were flying through the air you're about to get killed. So I
found my way into the leave a building and it all flew over many decades.
Those calls have taken their toll on James knock way he's here,
is damage
grenade shrapnel in his knees, stomach and face, but he has
plans on retiring instead,
finds reasons to hope.
Cameras, viewfinder locker,
joy and as in this image of nelson mandela, on the eve of his election as south africa's first black president in ninety. Ninety four,
this in the air, which is
a symbol of both triumphant defiance, and this one
He can two years earlier of south african children playing on a trampoline when major
This picture here there's something about the innocence of children, that's transcendent and
both on a trap away, and I think that you get to the height of your job.
and then for a moment
if I gravity- and I think that
the feeling that
to get in this picture
sending the way that is spent on their society,
Perhaps in the end. That is what James knock way shows us in his work that we are all cape
bull of transcending our circumstances and ourselves. We can come
terrible acts of brutality and barbarism. But all
stoning acts of kindness in caring, are you up to me,
dick about the human species
I mean you see the worst in in people I dunno
Optimism is exactly the right word, but when
horrible situations we see
Everyday citizens doing remit
couple things for each other, mother,
fathers or my heroes. What they do
their children, how they protect them
being in places where people have next to nothing.
Anything they have. They offer to a stranger, those
the things that we all have another displayed and in the worst situations that
makes me believe in humanity.
The last minute of sixty minutes nuts.
De on sixty minutes. Our new correspondence, cecilia vega heads,
the caribbean island of dominique home of a rare
population of sperm whales she died right in for a closer look at the whales and the effort to protect them. Biased
Abolishing a marine reserve were fishing and
the harmful activities are banned. There is a sense of all that comes with being in their every single time, yet she was looking right at us. I'm scott
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