Umesh was forced to marry at 17

The UN have recently reported the number of child grooms around the world. They say there are 115 million of them. This is the story of Umesh Malik Dom from Kathmandu, forced to marry as a child to help his family with debts. He’s now expecting a child of his own

00:57 The US border crisis revealed. AOC and others have seen first-hand what it’s like in some of the migrant detention centres. They describe it as horrifying. This comes as ProPublica reveal the secret Facebook group used by border officers to mock migrants

03:11 France begins to discuss what do about hate speech coming from French citizens on Facebook

08:35 Child grooms. We meet Umesh from Nepal, forced into marriage when he was 17 to help pay his families debts

#NewsFeed #ProPublica #ImmigrationCrisis

It's been accepted by nearly every nation on earth that whaling should be banned. One nation where that idea has not taken hold is Japan. It's been whaling for more than a century, and after a ban in the 80’s, continued doing so under the auspices of scientific research. That was, until today - when it began commercial whaling again. Are Japan’s traditions more important than preserving our animal brethren?

@02:42 : We take a look and laugh at the world’s leaders at the G20 #unwantedivanka

@04:57 : Stormzy had someone do sign language for deaf people at a music festival

@05:32 : Japan resumes commercial whaling

@11:44 : Was this year’s Glasto the ‘greenest’ ever?

#G20 #Stormzy #Glastonbury

- The race for space ownership heats up. Newsfeed speaks to an astrophysicist who suggests we consider how we want to explore and colonize space before we do it. Meanwhile NASA announces plans to land on Saturn’s largest moon

- Twitter targets politicians

- Knitting forum bans Trump speak

- Connecting death row dogs with locked up inmates

#Spacerace #Twitter #Newsfeed

Two years ago the Assalam foundation started a project in Zanzibar. It teaches women how to sew and make clothes. It’s opened nursery schools, art studios and science laboratories. It also teaches language and computer courses for children. Assalam Foundation opened an Istanbul branch. It has a shop where you can buy African tribal dolls, bags, folding fans… all made buy mums in Zanzibar, or from fabric produced in Africa.

#Africa #Assalam Foundation #Zanzibar

- Parts of Europe sizzle as record breaking temps approach. Elena Cassis speaks to people in scorching hot Paris about their thoughts on the climate crisis - heatwave connection.

- Beto O'Rourke's Spanish inspires awkward memes. The first democrat candidate debate sparks a variety of memes, focused on Cory Booker's response to O'Rourke's Spanish address.

- Discrimination against older women in the media industry isn’t a new thing. A group of female anchors unite to fight gender and age bias.

#Heatwave #DemDebate #MehuaMoitra

Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and Valeria Ramirez. Two people and two names which will forever be burned into the history of the US migration crisis. Waves of sympathy and compassion have flowed through social media. But despite the tweets and posts, will the US government change its treatment of people seeking asylum?

#NewsFeed #MigrantCrisis #USBorder

00:57 : An image of two migrants, dead at the border into America, has dominated social media. Valeria and Oscar Ramirez’s names have been immortalised as symbols of America’s failing immigration system

03:11 : France gets Facebook to show which French citizens have posted hateful content

14:09 : Frida is a Mexican dog and she’s a hero. Now she has an award and early retirement

#Immigration #Facebook #Newsfeed

00:55 : Europe is going through a heatwave as some of the best scientists discuss ways to reuse and recycle CO2

05:53 : The Lion King is coming on the 19th July. And we’ve just heard part of the Beyonce x Donald Glover duet

10:55 : Billionaires write a letter asking to be taxed more

#CO2 #TheLionKing #Newsfeed