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Coronavirus impacts Spain's fruit pickers

Spain's migrant fruit pickers face tougher challenges than usual in the era of coronavirus.

Spain's migrant fruit pickers face tougher challenges than usual in the era of coronavirus. Hannah Wilson is a lawyer in the Madrid office of Women's Link Worldwide, which campaigns to advance the rights of women and girls, and explains how the industry sources migrant workers from Morocco. Spanish strawberry picker Ana Pinto who runs workers' rights group Jornaleras en Lucha describes the poor working practices she has seen Moroccan migrants subjected to. And Peter Andrews, head of sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, tells us whether his organisation feels labour standards in Spanish fruit fields need to be improved. Also in the programme, Eric Schmidt, adviser to the US Department of Defence, and former head of the internet giant Google, has told the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ that Chinese electronics firm Huawei is a threat to western nations' national security. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ security correspondent Gordon Corera brings us the latest. Plus, Lyndon Davies, chief executive of model train company Hornby, tells us how the coronavirus pandemic has actually led to an increase in sales for the firm, which also owns the toy car racing brand Scalextric and model plane maker Airfix.

(Picture: Workers in a Spanish strawberry farm. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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Thu 18 Jun 2020 14:32GMT

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