Google faces 10-week trial over charges of unfair competition

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Google and its parent company Alphabet will spend the next ten weeks on the docket in a federal court in Washington DC as they face accusations of rigging the market in their favour. FRANCE 24’s correspondent Eric Pape explains what this might mean for the tech giant as he reports from Los Angeles. We also take a look at an Amnesty International report on human rights abuses within DR Congo’s growing cobalt and copper mining industry, which is driven by rising demand for electric vehicle batteries.