PBS News Hour

July 11, 2021 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode

On this edition for Sunday, July 11, Delta variant surges across the U.S., especially among the unvaccinated. Also, billionaire Richard Branson takes off on Virgin Galactic’s space flights, and a Dutch company’s fight to end child slavery in the chocolate industry. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York.

A Dutch chocolate company’s fight to end illegal child labor

11m 43s

The chocolate industry has a dark side: almost 1.6 million children work -- illegally -- in the cocoa growing regions of Ghana and Ivory Coast. Tony’s Chocoloneley, a quirky but popular chocolate brand in The Netherlands, is on a mission to shake up the industry and eliminate illegal child labor completely. Special Correspondent Megan Thompson reports.

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  • Space race: Branson flies to space on Virgin Galactic: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Space race: Branson flies to space on Virgin Galactic

    S2021 E192 - 4m 53s

    British billionaire Richard Branson took off on Virgin Galactic on Sunday with five others on a historic space flight. Cruising to an altitude of 50 miles, Branson did not cross the Karman line, yet beat Jeff Bezos in the billionaire space race. Nicholas Schmidle, author of Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut, and New Yorker writer joins.

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