i did interview the prime minister of bangladesh. i'll tell you a little bit about that but i interviewed former state department official michael posner, had his portfolio as labor reform and he says very clearly if western retailers pull out, that is going to be the very deep detriment of the women and families but certainly things can't continue as is. >> right. >> he suggests all the western retailers get together, stop competing in this regard and figure out how to have better labor reform, better pricing, better conditions for this retail. >> you mentioned your interview with the prime minister of bangladesh. i want to play a quick clip with that. >> if they want to do business, the buyer, they should also consider increasing the price of the garments so that the business can run properly and the labor can get good salary. >> others say raise the price of the garment it goes right into the pockets of the political elite who will profit from the industry as well. i mean, it's, just seems to be such a big mess. what is the answer

we're not finished with bangladesh. aaron has more news. >> i have been speaking with one of the senior heads of the international labor organization, ilo, arrived on the ground today in dhaka, pressing the government to make these much needed changes so we don't see this tragic scenes that racino for the past week. let me explain. in the wake of the tragedy that we have been hearing about it, the european union has said it will look into actions to press for improvements and accountability on working conditions. the garment business in bangladesh is very important. its 80% of the country's $24 billion export industry. the international labor organization in dhaka today pressing the government to take action to make sure we don't see images like this any time soon. earlier i spoke with the deputy director general for field operations who told me labor laws in bangladesh may need to change. law,lking about the labor which now it's up to parliament level that we want to make sure will be adopted quickly. you also have to

to pressure bangladesh. they cannot make decisions for bangladesh. it is completely a lie. the joe freshly will is protected, so they can demand their label is protected in bangladesh. if they can protect the label, they can protect the workers as well. the fact they are innocent and they don't have any leverage is untrue. they're plenty of leverage, they just don't use it. it is not just joe fresh. it was cato, it was primark in the u.k., it was just a whole slew of labels from spain, italy -- high and clothing. produce 7 factors million garments a year. this was a big operation. and only now the place he cannot into, the crumble the factory, but eventually all of these labels will come out and these companies will be held accountable. >> according to a poll taken in 2006, 76% of americans said they agreed with the statement that -- charlie kernaghan, do you think the response would be the same today? this poll was taken in 2006. >> i think it would be more so. we have an economy where since the great reces

and bangladesh or around the world. you are also looking at the long-term growth of bangladesh's economy, how do we empower because it is not easy, not an easy question but it is good for business. i think the business and opportunity for retailers and manufacturers alike to say that worker empowerment can be good for business, productivity, efficiencies, and things we can achieve when workers aren't worrying about how they are going to pay bills and taking care of health concern and when they are empowered to be efficient productive parts and building a company, building a global economy. >> every society goes through the same process. start with cheap labor. people that are more expendable like women were in the 1930s and 1940s in lowell. they start to form unions and start to get better conditions and politicians pressured to help to make things better as well. big strikes like 1912, for example. then labor -- then companies -- if they can leave, they leave to go the cheaper places but then the same process has to st

more now on our top story from bangladesh. to group's name translates protectors of in rigid protectors of islam, aiming to establish an islamic state in bangladesh. this is the islamic group from the town. now the supporters are taking over the streets of the capital. 35-year-old [inaudible] is a religious school teacher who travel all night from his village for his voice to be heard. >> whoever talks upon -- whoever talks against the profit, muhammed, should be punished. we want an islamic state in bangladesh. >> until recently they were at a little-known islamic group made up of teachers and students. the group raises its own money, running the largest network of islamic schools in the country, popular in the countryside. it's institutions are not recognized by the government. in april members brought the capitol to a standstill by leading a march to demand anti- blasphemy laws. they wanted people who defame islam punished. >> the demands that they are putting forward are very much political in nature, and they are serious.

to essentially say it is status quo for sears in bangladesh. we invited all companies to come to talk to us on camera. sears, walmart, target, j.c. penney, gap, and all declined or didn't respond to the request. the national retail federation declined as well. we have the ceo of telsey advisory group covering retailers and their business for years and dara the professor of environmental and labor policy at university of california berkeley. multi billion dollar businesses have made a ton of money chasing the cheapest labor. walmart made $17 billion last year. target made $3 billion. gap more than a billion. how can a company that knows everything about me at the point of purchase, exactly what i am doing, how can they not know where their jeans are being stitched? >> i think one of the things that happens with these companies, very large companies. they are subcontracting out some of the garments they make and could go from an agent to a subcontractor. certainly the agents, there is lots of legal issues and lots of legal stipulations in the con

. >>> even after the tragedy at a clothing factory in bangladesh, in u.s. retailers are opting out of a pact to increase safety standards for workers. christine romans is naming the names next on "your money." >>> the president probably wishes he was talking about your job, your money, your prosperity. this is "your money." president obama wants to steer the conversation towards his policy goals and the smell of scandal is getting stronger in washington. >> the white house, knocked off message by a rash of bad headlines. the irs allegedly targets conservative groups. the government is spying on ap reporters and new details about the deadly raid in benghazi. conservatives seize the moment. >> my question is who is going to jail over this scandal? >> we have got to restore the trust in government. >> i have never seen anything quite like this except in the past during the nixon years. >> the watergate scandal forced president nixon to resign but do these rise to that level? review. president clinton had two scandals, white water and monica lewinski. franklin

. >> putting out of bangladesh is not a viable deal. they have made substantial investments in factories in the country. no nation wants workers in unsafe conditions, losing contracts with major retailers financially devastating. bangladesh's garment industry makes up 80% of the poverty stricken export. and items like these are made in bangladesh, the cost of improving conditions minimal. >> for less than 10 cents a garment, the brands and retailers could undertake the factory repairs and renovations necessary to protect the lives of workers making the clothing. the impact for consumers would be negligentable. >> last week, the founder of retail joe fresh pledged compensation for victims and families in march, walt disney decided it would no longer source from five countries that do not meet certain safety standards, including bangladesh. nordstroms' customers are starting to ask questions about sourcing and it's looking to provide new information to shoppers. following the building collapse, the bangladesh government says 18 factories

22 cents, what does that tell us about what people in bangladesh make? >> a factory worker in bangladesh would make $38 a month where an american worker would be around $1,300 a month. you are looking at a huge discrepancy in the amount that people earn. for bangladesh, this is 77% of their exports come from garment industry. it's a $20 billion industry. and factories like this, which is the capital of bangladesh, there are 100,000 factories like this in and around and only 18 inspectors. >> and there's no way that they can keep up with that then. >> it's the working conditions, the buildings. the pope himself said that not paying fairly is against god. >> wow. >> of course, the question remains now, what gets done? we had shock, we had horror and we had some companies get together this week, global companies and look at the conditions. what will actually be done remains to be seen. >> some people might be sitting at home thinking, i'm not comfortable with this. is there anything i can personally do? >> you can look at the label of my clothes and say i'm

part of the reason we started talking about the bangladesh factory is a, because of the death toll. and b, the fact that there isn't a lot of attention paid to the after-effects, what can be done to prevent something like this from ever happening again. same with the factory explosion of west, texas. we were focused on boston, but there's a situation where 14 people died. there are regulations that can be put in place. and yet the conversation around regulation, worker safety and the plight of the worker in america and abroad, gets no daylight. >> well the bangladesh story is a complicated one for americans who could potentially make a big difference by voting with our feet, right. american consumers could decide we don't want to support garments, we don't want to buy from companies that won't sign this the problem is american consumers who shop at low-cost retailers, especially places like walmart, are often american consumers who are themselves living in poverty within the context of the u.s. and often there's chances with there is no other available competitive retailer. particul

what did you experience in bangladesh? >> i was there undercover as a garment buyer in 2011 and as we're finding out now the industry, i found it to be incredibly haphazard and opaque. very difficult to get information about where clothing is being made and how. i met with a lot of middle men who had a portfolio of factories who would offer to subcontract my orders to different factories which means it would be very difficult for me to control my supply chain. and then the other thing i saw was factory owners wanting to bend over backwards to get my business. that's really the attitude there is they'll do anything and say anything to get the orders from western brand. so it is this very interesting power of dynamic where bangladesh is really eager to get these orders. >> john: when you say doing anything to get your business, they're not talking about customer service. they're talking about low wages low prices. >> well, actually, what's interesting is it's totally legal to pay $38 a month to garment workers in bangladesh.

bare for what happened in bangladesh? thank you for coming in. i keep thinking about what he said that they are feeding the appetite for cheap clothing. how much responsibility do we care? >> the responsibility lies with the brands and retailers and the united states and europe who put tremendous pressure on their factories to produce at extremely low cost and to deliver apparel quickly. bangladesh is the second-largest apparel producer in the world, and it got there from giving these western retailers exactly what they want, cheap clothing, but that comes out an enormous cost. >> i thought because there have been incidents of accidents within these countries, they check them out. they try to eliminate the sweat shop image. >> face has been saying for years they have robust programs in place. it has become obvious the auditors' working to protect safety do not even look to see if the building itself has structural integrity. they do not even look to see of the buildings have proper fire exits. they do not even look out the problems the better bec

>> that was in bangladesh. >> bill: also in bangladesh. >> yes. following that tragedy usas and a bunch of other organizations in bang bangladesh called on the gap to sign a binding fire and building safety agreement to make sure that industrial disasters would never happen again in bangladesh. >> bill: here we go. >> after two years of negotiations, they pulled out. and instead, they chose to announce their own go at it alone, voluntary self-regulatory program that has no binding legal enforcement mechanism and does not include workers or their unions. and so it is no surprise that you know, more workers continue to die when companies like the gap refuse to -- >> bill: okay, so what are the united students, what have you been doing about this? >> we've been hitting the streets, bill. we've been doing a bunch of actions at gap stores. doing picketing fliering. we're going to be at the gap shareholder meeting coming up here next week and we're going to do everything we can to mobilize students and consumers to take action against gap stores. >> bil

back against big oil and are more communities across the country planning to do the same thing and bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world and the workers are among the most it's lloyd in the world but despite its poverty in third world conditions still has more of a backbone or moral compass than the united states at least when it comes to corporate criminals i'll tell you why and i'd still take. it as the rise of the new despite its wide wide range of environmental and health consequences the fact is of fracking or extracting shale rock beds is on the rise across the country and because of this growth in fracking the oil and gas industries and even the mainstream corporate media haven't been shy about saying how much our nation could benefit from this natural gas production boom even president obama noted in his state of the union speech that the production natural gas the united states has never been higher than it is today. but while the actual gas production a less than desirable means may be off the charts right now in the u.s. what about the production of other forms of

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nearly all they have left, bangladesh's second largest city. myanmar is bracing itself, more than 100,000 people are living in camps and low lying areas in the country. many of them have fled there because of conflicts with buddhists. myanmar's weather department says it may be the hardest storm to hit. >>> state run media in north degree is reporting on a high level meeting in pyongyang. an advisor to shinzo abe met with north korean leader kim jong-un's second in command. he met with kim yong-am. and they talked about why he is in japan, but it is believed he is discussing the kidnapping of japanese citizens from the 1970s and 80s. the senior u.s. diplomat says he wants the japanese to keep u.s. officials informed about his trip. glyn davies says denuclearization is the top priority in dealing with the north koreans, but they're ready to work with their counterparts to deal with the abduction issue. the spokesperson says he received no prior notice about his visit. >> it is important that the international community work together to deal with

bangladesh. >> absolutely. >> all right. thank you. >>> coming up, video that shows how tough it really is to be a parent. the common way kids put their moms and dads in deadly situations. >>> and wait till you hear the outrageous ways super rich tourists are using disabled people to cut in line at disney land. >>> plus do you have to stop if the security alarm goes off if you're shopping? know your rights. the store policies you do and do not have to follow. why shop t.j.maxx and marshalls? one. you get all the awesome brand names. two. you get them for less than department stores, and that's awesome. three. she'll think you look stylish and awesome. four. you'll actually be awesome. which is awesome. driving is dangerous. but dealing with kids in the car while you drive.. sastrous. mary . >>> we all know ta on a cell phone while driving is dangerous but dealing with kids in the car while you drive, potentially disastrous. mary cay shows us one mom had her eyes off the road 50% of the time. >>> kids can be a handful in the

is bangladesh has reasonable safety standards for factories the problem is those standards are a work of fiction they have nothing to do with what happens in the workplace because the pressures that the big brands and retailers like gap and wal-mart placed on these factories makes it impossible for them to observe those standards and still meet the prices the brands are demanding and we've seen and now a few of these western brands come out in agree to some sort of framework for safety what exactly is in that and will it work this is a program that we helped to develop that is a radical departure from the corporate social responsibility programs we've been hearing about from the companies for years this is a binding contract between major apparel retailers and labor unions that requires the retailers to pay for major building repairs and renovations in bangladesh to make these factories safe backed up by independent spectrums with full public reporting and critically the factories must respect the right of workers to refuse dangerous work to refuse to enter a building they know is dan

back from bangladesh and joins us from london. holly, u.s. retailers have been trying to improve conditions in bangladesh for many years, but, given what you found, is there any pressure on american companies to stop doing business there all together? >> no, there isn't, scott. bangladeshi workers need these jobs. but a lot of people in bangladesh told us that since u.s. retailers benefit from the country's very low wages, they should take responsibility for conditions inside factories. now, following the rana plaza collapse, several european retailers have signed an agreement to use their own money to make bangladeshi factories safer, but so far all of the big u.s. retailers have declined to sign on. >> pelley: great reporting, holly. thank you very much. at the height of the vietnam war, these men and their ordeal united the nation. their story just ahead. d. so now i can help a great block party. ♪ [ male announcer ] advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair

clear that this is not primarily a bangladesh problem or a cambodia problem it's a problem of a global apparel industry dominated by large brands and retailers who put so much pressure on their contract factories around the world to accept extremely low prices that those factories cannot pay any attention to worker safety and still stay in business and i think the word here is key word professor rolf is global you know globalism is touted as this great thing that is going to make us all rich especially to make developing nations rich but this is this factor that you know we run a plaza factory collapse i mean isn't that the real consequences of globalism. yeah i wouldn't use the word globalism so much i would like to call it by what it is this is capitalist competition it is the way the capitalist system has always worked you know many of us grew up reading the novels of charles dickens who described the conditions at this period in great britain when you had a horrible accidents and death and the conditions of workers beyond work we have the unspeakable irony in the tourist century ca

disney pulls out of bangladesh eight after a deadly collapse. will wal-mart be pressured for their operations? the fallout could be enormous. nubbles push stocks to new milestones piles of money coming up. >> artificially low interest rates in the market. it has to go somewhere. i don't believe the real value is there. melissa: and the factory collapsed in bangladesh left 430 people dead was a horrific tragedy also raising a serious dilemma for u.s. companies that rely on bangladesh workers and factories to make products. disney house said it is sending apparel production in bangladesh. other like wal-mart and j.c. penney or under pressure to follow suit it could help stop another accident that these factories employ almost 4 million people so clearly there is no simple solution. is there a best option for u.s. retailers? joining me now is a senior analyst at macquarie capital also retail analyst, a figure for joining me is a tough issue because i feel a lot of companies sitting on the sidelines give this a quick thought to say we should be out

killed at least three hundred sixty two people and hundreds remain missing bangladesh is the world's second largest exporter of garments but its workers make only about thirty seven dollars a month rescue workers have found branded clothing from bennington and children's place among others in the rubble this is the face of free trade apparently is it really worth it and perhaps more importantly bob. the guy who owned and built this factory in violation of building codes. is also a local politician he's in jail right now and they've frozen the assets of the five companies the five factories that were operating there we still don't know even at least i don't the name of the company that owns that that plant down in west texas that blew up you know don't we have something to learn from bangladesh or i think of course one of the things that really bothers me when a lot of these things happen that transcends politics it's the lack of conscience with certain people with certain business owners i mean you can take advantage of lower wages in another country but put a few more exits i mean h

troop withdrawal the threat is growing elsewhere with islamic unrest sweeping through bangladesh. a man known as russia's great cardinal resigns from the government we take a look at the man and what could be behind his exit in the halls of power. and then life in prison is the only life you can afford some courts in ohio jailing the homeless and people with disabilities because they can't afford to pay small fines . and you watching our take with me and three fab. now the u.n. is calling for the immediate release of four of its peacekeepers held by syrian rebels the peacekeepers were abducted in the golan heights the demilitarized zone between syria and israel is our middle east correspondent. i've just gotten off the phone with the deputy chief of staff for the united nations peacekeeping force in the area and he says that they are definitely remaining there this follows the kidnapping of four filipino un peacekeepers who are being held in a ceasefire between syria and the israeli side of the golan heights now that is almost a no man's land not the israeli nor syrian forces can

manufacturers have been trying to improve conditions in bangladesh. they tell customers that they don't do business with companies that don't follow the rules. how does this still happen? >> well, scott, sometimes american companies give their orders to a supplier, not the factory. or they'll give an order to one factory then it gets passed along to another factory. in that case, they don't know where their products are being made. and even if they do know which factory they're using and they inspect it, the there can stille problems because the factories are cleaned up ahead of the inspection and workers are coached on what to say. >> pelley: well, this has been eye-opening and we'll have another installment of your investigation tomorrow night on the evening news. holly, thank you. female cadets at west point were secretly taped in the shower. who's accused of doing it? that's next. body wash can ltra moisture with more moisturizers than seven bottles ofing body wash. with ultra moisture your body wash is anything but basic soft, smooth skin with ol

. >> there has not been such a big protest a little last five years in bangladesh. at least 200,000 people are out there, but these are conservative estimates. what i am seeing is a sea of men in the capital. the government did not allow this protest at first, but they allowed it later because of the huge number of people involved. what we're also seeing are running battles between protesters and police. the officers are continuing to fire tear gas and rubber bullets. four injured. officials confirm at least one person is dead. it looks like a battleground. if things continue this way for the next few days, the country could go into a state of emergency. we believe the protests had by this group. what do we know about them? >> they are a little known groups in the southeastern part of bangladesh made up of teachers and students it and it came to public attention in april when people were asking for blasphemy laws after several bloggers in bangladesh were allegedly posting blasphemous comments on line against a profit. this has grown exponentially and shows the growi

bangladesh is now the second largest apparel exporter after china. how? unlike some of the competitors, bangladeshi manufacturing remains dirt cheap and unions have limited power. the country corners the bottom of the value chain. >> what's happened to bangladesh is they have been too successful at the low road model of development where they offer low wage labor and underinvested in their own infrastructure. >> reporter: while contracts poured in from walmart, gap and disney, buildings went up fast filled with workers sometimes housed on illegally built floors but wages remained low. >> you have an ecosystem that they rise to double or triple from $40 a month to $120 a month you still have a garment industry in bangladesh. >> they benefit from the country giving extra help because it's so poor europe allows bangladesh to support garments duty free. a sweetener it may now suspend. a penalty for the country not cleaning up its garment industry. on the other hand, the united states still imposes duties an clothes from bangladesh. it costs as much as 32 cent

disney pulls out of bangladesh eight after a deadly collapse. will wal-mart be pressured for their operations? the fallout could be enormous. nubbles push stocks to new milestones piles of money coming up. >> artificially low interest rates in the market. it has to go somewhere. i don't believe the real value is there. with ideas, with ambition. i'm thinking about china, brazil, india. the world's a big place. i want to be a part of it. ishares international etfs. emerging markets and single countries. find out why nine out of ten large professional investors choose ishares for their etfs. ishares by blackrock. call 1-800-ishares for a prospectus, which includes investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. read and consider it carefully before investing. risk includes possible loss of principal. melissa: and the factory collapsed in bangladesh left 430 people dead was a horrific tragedy also raising a serious dilemma for u.s. companies that rely on bangladesh workers and factories to make products. disney house said it is sending apparel

bangladesh. >> absolutely. >> all right. thank you. >>> coming up, video that shows how tough it really is to be a parent. the common way kids put their moms and dads in deadly situations. >>> and wait till you hear the outrageous ways super rich tourists are using disabled people to cut in line at disney land. >>> plus do you have to stop if the security alarm goes off if you're shopping? know your rights. the store policies you ♪ [ roars ] ♪ [ roars ] ♪ [ roars ] ♪ [ roars ] ♪ [ male announcer ] universal studios summer of survival. ♪ [ male announcer ] universal studios summer of survival. you see the "mini" ion my chest? funny, yes? no. there's nothing mini about me. i'm huge. ahem. any hoo. even my wrapper has a wrapper. flavor? i'm bursting with it. creamy? i ooze it. quality like this... (muffled):...doesn't come everyday. well technically it does because i'm in the grocery but... ooh, how you doin'? rich. creamy. and 100% natural cheese. mini babybel. snack a little bigger. female narrator: the mattress p

. 71 words in all to basically say it's status quo for bangladesh. we invited all of the companies to talk to us. all declined or didn't respond to our collapse. the national retail federation declined as well. dana is a ceo who has been covering retailers and their business for years. dara is a professor of environmental labor policy. dana, let's look at the numbers. multibillion dollar businesses who have made a ton of money chasing the cheapest labor in a race to the bottom. walmart made $17 billion last year. target made $3 billion. gap, more than a billion. how can a company that made in walmart's case, $17 million last year, that knows everybody about me at the point of purchase, knows exactly what i'm doing, how can they not know where their jeans are being stitched? >> one of the things that happened with these companies, they're very large companies. they're subcontracting out some of the garments they make, and it could go from an agent to a subcontractor. the agents, there's lots of legal issues and lots of legal stipulations in the contra

but a lot of people in bangladesh told us that since u.s. retailers benefit from the country's very low wages they should take responsibility for conditions inside factories. now, following the ran that plaza collapse several european retailers have signed an agreement to use their own money to make bangladeshi factories safer but so far all of the big u.s. retailers have declined to sign on. >> pelley: great reporting, holly, thank you very much. at the height of the vietnam war, these men and their ordeal united the nation. their story just ahead. so now i can help a great block party. ♪ [ male announcer ] advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator working together to help improve your lung function all day. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than twice a day. people with copd taking advair may have a higher chance of pneumonia. advair may increase yo

factory collapse poll finds americans with little awareness outreach the deadly factory collapse in bangladesh more than two weeks ago has led to calls for retailers to change the way they do business overseas but a new poll and interviews with shoppers at stores whose garments were manufactured at the ruined factory show that pressure for changes on likely to come from americans few of whom have heard much about the collapse most of whom care more about prices than safe labor conditions right well like the cigarette companies you know they put the pictures of people's cancer ridden lungs on the packages to try to advertise to them what happens when they smoke cigarettes i think prime arc should have photos of people factory workers crushed at the factory dead their limbs akimbo with their arms and legs and skulls crushed big that's the price for the cheap clothes at prime market and people should at least be aware of the connection that they're making not that it would stop anyone from shopping a primer because as we've been saying they're headless they're cerebral cortex has been disconnecte

but in bangladesh just $0.22, just 6%. we see quite clearly materials are the big issue, labor minor when it comes to developing countries. but in the developed world it's labor that becomes the big cost. factor it all in together and you start to see why until we are prepared to pay more, we start to see why more of our cheaper clothing is now made in bangladesh. richard quest, cnn, london. >>> for the first time ever there's a woman on the fbi's most wanted terrorist list. her crime, killing a new jersey cop 40 years ago. up next, we'll take you live to cuba where she's been hiding out since she escaped from prison. in to taste great. she was a picky eater. well now i'm her dietitian and last year, she wasn't eating so well. so i recommended boost complete nutritional drink to help her get the nutrition she was missing. and now she drinks it every day. well, it tastes great! [ male announcer ] boost has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones, and 10 grams of protein to

twenty five cents matters a lot to you better safety in bangladesh could raise closing prices by about twenty five percent it bothers me but a lot of retailers are getting their clothes from these places and i can't see how i can change anything twenty one year old university student elizabeth mcneil said clutching a brown paper bag from clothier prime marked the day after a building collapse and savar bangladesh killed at least three hundred eighty one people they definitely need to improve but i'll still shop here it's so cheap of course the number went up to a thousand people who were found dead at this factory but again you know everybody here in the western world lives with huge amounts of debt and twenty five cents could mean the difference between being able to make their interest payment that month and not right why is twenty five cents so important because the wages have been stagnant and that has been increasing for decades now so consumers are forced to struggle to save twenty five cents even though the companies that are responsible for selling these garments and other prod

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. >> tragedy in bangladesh again. this time it is a fire at a garment factory that kills eight. and the iraq war as you have seen its. apparently scenes of conflict. -- harrowing scenes of conflicts. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and also around the globe. ariel castro has appeared in court and is being held on $8 million bail in the kidnapping and abduction of three women in cleveland. the prosecutor said that mr. castro used the women in what ever self gratifying way he's off it. the were freed on monday after one of them managed to escape and get help. laura trevelyan is there for us and the prosecutors make it clear that they want the weeks about what ever happened in that ouse to stop? >> that's right. they do. so, too, does the mayor of cleveland. when ariel castro appeared in court behind me this morning, he was downcast, subdued. the prosecutor has made it clear he could seek additional charges, as well as the charge of kidnapping and rape. a charge ofseek aggravated murder. that charge from terminating pregnancies. there was one woman each time,

but there are enormous challenges in the political infrastructure of bangladesh. if you look at why that building was ever even built the way it was, you know, the root causes have to do with corruption at the local level, with systems of graft. you have just kind of mob bosses in charge at the local political level. so there's a tremendous amount of cleaning up of the political infrastructure that needs to happen before people's political voices can be effective. >> suarez: david, is there also a risk here for the workers if things are tightened up? if there are better conditions in the factories? if wages are raised? there a chance that you are taking that international producers will head to even lower-cost places, if you can find them left on planet earth? >> this is the great paradox of the more developed economies trying to influence this process. because the reason that there were so many workers in that factory laboring under such appalling conditions is that there's desperate poverty in bangladesh. and they are actually working their way up to those jobs,