Reporter 'trapped' on tea plantation in India - BBC News
The BBC's South Asia correspondent, Justin Rowlatt encountered obstruction from management when he tried to access a tea plantation in India. Several of the world's biggest tea brands including PG Tips, Lipton, Tetley and Twinings have said they will work to improve the tea estates they buy from in India after a BBC investigation found dangerous, disgusting and degrading living and working conditions. Harrods has stopped selling some tea products in response. The joint investigation by Radio 4's File on Four and BBC News also found that some tea estates break the law by restricting public access to workers' living areas. Subscribe to BBC News HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog Check out our website: http://www.bbc.com/news Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bbcworldnews Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbcworld Instagram: http://instagram.com/bbcnews
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Disgraceful animals. Corrupt
Nation.
India has huge issues with sanitation! And they boast of having rich billionairs, like as if them billionairs in the land care a damn about their humongous % of amount of people below poverty line in India is well over 300million. And Sanitation issue they have, it's well into 600million people in India without sanitation!
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The britishers started the tea gardens in india, if anyone is to be blamed for their plight its them.
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reported for misleading title
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Justin rowlatt need to do the case on those people and put them behind bars and need to research more places in the country for a big project to save more number of people from slavery don't look away from those crime listen to yourself which you seen and heard suffering from the workers for many years treated there community in darkness life. take a revenge because nothing has changed for them or you won't be counted as innocent
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put it this way, whenever you bought a cheap price import's product, somewhere in a third world country a worker's rights is being abuse.
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It would cost these multinational companies nothing to build basic housing with working sanitation and water supplies for their employees. 4 stone walls, tin roofs, a sink and a damn toilet. It wouldn't even scratch the surface of their massive profit margins. This isn't cheap labour. This is a whole other level of exploitation. It's criminal.
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I drink PG Tips... time to reconsider.
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They are illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, what more could you expect the government to do if they dont even know that they are in the country ?.... Moreover i can say that this is not a "major" tea plantation as you would have been kicked out after they found you had no formal permission. Typical british idiots fail to mention crucial elements of the problem and distort facts to be against an eastern block country like India.
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somebody is rich by forcing others in poverty!! Shame!!
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lipton and tetley? shit gonna have to find another brands.
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BRICS nations in a nutshell
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This makes me fucking sick I'm never drinking tea AGAIN !!😡😡😡fuck this system !!
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More alike the thamizh movie 'Paradesi'
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The world is awash with evil capitalists that will gladly trade humanity for an extra dollar. That is the bottom line.
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someone forward this video to govt of india...or narendra modi.... haha
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Now I can't have a cup of tea.... cheers BBC
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Why would you want to have a kid in that place?
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A workers' revolution! That's what we need!
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...and I am drinking a cup of PG-Tips while I watch this :(
There's a price for the luxury we have in the Wets and the people paying the price are these poor people - the only reall effect we can have is boycott, in other words we have to do without something to get the message across.
However, sadly, not many of us would be prepared to give up our cuppa.
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