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get your passports ready because we're

going globe-trotting today on CNN 10 I'm

your tour guide

Carl azuz happy to be traveling with you

we're gonna start across the park

leading across the Atlantic it's been

almost 2 years and two months since the

United Kingdom officially started the

process of breaking off from the

European Union it was supposed to be

done within two years but there been

hang-ups and extensions along the way

and it's still not clear what's gonna

happen regarding the brexit the British

exit from the EU here's why it's

complicated no member of the European

Union has left the group since it was

established in 1993 but in June of 2016

Britons voted 51.9% to 48.1"00:00:55,180 --> 00:00:59,739 to leave the Union their disagreements

with the EU over economics immigration

and laws were some reasons why

before Britain can officially leave

though both its government and the

European Union want to agree on the

terms the new rules concerning trade

immigration and borders between Britain

and the EU separating without an

agreement would create a lot of

uncertainty across Europe and possibly

impact international economies at least

for a while a deal has been reached

between British prime minister Theresa

May and the leaders of the European

Union but it has not gotten the approval

of Britain's Parliament lawmakers have

held three votes on it so far and the

deal has failed to pass some lawmakers

want significant changes to the

agreement before they support it others

want Britain to hold a new vote on

brexit altogether Prime Minister may

plans to seek a fourth parliamentary

vote on the latest version of the deal

in early June but no one knows yet if it

will pass on the EU side European

Commission President jean-claude Juncker

says he's a little fed up because there

have been multiple extensions to the

brexit and people are losing patience so

far though there hasn't been any

solution that enough officials agree on

for Britain to leave the Union the

European Union is a group of countries

that among other things work together to

create a single market this allows goods

services and people to move between the

Member States as long as they follow the

rules and pay the membership fee broadly

speaking it works like this

you counsel sets the agenda led by a

president heads of state from all member

countries decide on the EU political

direction discuss sensitive issues as

well as foreign policy after that three

main lawmaking institutions run the

Union the European Commission the

Council of the European Union and the

European Parliament the Commission which

manages the day-to-day running of the EU

proposes new laws and ensures they're

implemented once passed it's composed of

a president and commissioners from all

Member States each heading departments

with different policy priorities then

the Council and Parliament votes on the

proposed laws in a process known as

co-decision in other words they both

have to agree to pass any legislation

proposed by the Commission the council

is made up of Ministers from each Member

States governments who also help to

coordinate each nations policies the

parliament has 751 m eps elected every

five years by european citizens from all

Member States its main role is to

supervise the work of the Commission

debating and approving laws and also

voting on candidates for the EU stop job

president of the European Commission

founded in 1957 the European Union now

represents more than half a billion

people across 28 countries and generates

an estimated 15 trillion in GDP per year

the promised countries that are

economically linked are less likely to

have conflicts

now EU citizens can live work and do

business in any of the Member States

nearly all of whom can travel and trade

without passports or taxes but despite a

shared flag anthem institutions and

currency the EU isn't a totally happy

marriage for many countries some have

been affected differently by world

events there have been arguments over

financial regulations bailouts in

different approaches to migration

anti-eu parties have sprouted across

europe some calling for their countries

to withdraw from the union many of them

fear the EU is taking away their

national sovereignty and individual

identity

but more than 60 years after it was

founded so far only the United Kingdom

has voted to leave one of the world's

most powerful unions ten-second trivia

what is the driest inhabited continent

on earth Asia Antarctica Australia or

Africa this is a little tricky

Antarctica is the driest overall but

Australia holds the title for driest

inhabited continent

it might seem shocking that new laws

concerning the issue of slavery are

taking effect now in countries like

Australia but there are an estimated 40

million people who live in slavery today

and part of the mission of CNN's freedom

project is to get the word out that

slavery is not just a thing of the past

exposing the criminals who traded human

lives encouraging businesses to make

sure their supply chains don't involve

forced labor urging governments to root

out and prevent slavery and helping

people who've survived slavery to get

their stories out into the world these

are all freedom project goals and the

account of a woman who reportedly

emerged from slavery in Australia as

well as the efforts of those who helped

former slaves are the subjects of our

next report on CNN 10

sandra came to Australia from Fiji in

2006 to work as a housekeeper a week

after she arrived she says the family

she was working for took her passport

despite their initial promises of a wage

and health obtaining permanent residency

Sandra says she was forced to work for

them unpaid for three years the issue of

forced labor is at the forefront of

Australia's fight to end modern-day

slavery

I was dreaming older husband late

washing cooking pining looking after the

two dogs and little bit of gardening and

even massaging the lady of the house

when I asked them for money they would

just outed me years later after

suspected tip-off from someone who the

family she says the Department of

Immigration arrived at her door and were

able to get her out once freed she

changed her name to Sandra for her

safety soon after she met Sally Irwin

who started the freedom hub with an

on-site cafe to raise funds and

awareness the freedom heart primarily

runs a survivor school for people

affected by slavery in Australia there's

a long long wait four to five year wait

for corporates to come around and what I

was seeing was that these lot of these

women are being in bedrooms too scared

to go out there was no aftercare all

right a lot of courses everything from

personal care right through to language

skills right through to computer classes

being Australian culture I mean yeah the

really basic ones might even be just how

to get a bus to the beach you know buy

an ice cream and bit by bit they start

to build their own confidence so that

they feel that I can go out themselves

they're sucking it together as a little

group in 2019 Australia's first modern

slavery act has come into effect

Australian businesses that a revenue of

more than one hundred million dollars

are required to report annually on the

risks of modern slavery in their

operations and supply chains and how

they've addressed those risks

what I love about it in Australia is

that it will actually raise the

awareness so I think the main impact net

will be that people will have a lot more

identification of victims today Sandra

stands as a beacon of hope what can be

achieved in Australia's mission to end

slavery well I'm a skin is I have free

time job I have my own life I have

freedom I can drive and I'm living on my

own I have so many family and friends

I'm happy rising more than 1800 feet

above the capital of Seoul Lotte World

Tower is the tallest building in South

Korea this is what it looks like all lit

up 30,000 firecrackers launched from 370

different locations made this giant

candle burn it took dozens of expert

climbers about a month to set it all up

and it's the latest in a series of

projects from Group F a company that

specializes in pyrotechnics displays the

theme of the project was peace to

reflect recent peace talks on the Korean

Peninsula over the course of the 11

minute light show six million dollars

worth of fireworks went up in smoke

so they literally had money to burn and

even if you don't want to be pyro

technical about it it was a towering

achievement a delightful accomplishment

they gave the fire the works they had a

blast it was lit and if you wanted to

shine a spotlight on the event you could

say it took a look T lights camera and

action I'm Carl azuz for CNN ten

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