as one to have an open admin fee for the candidates who want to run is unlikely to have an impact on those who have boy called at the election. that it seems, the turnout would be at around 40 percent of the most. and i think the system also is not often a high turnout, but others disagree. and believe the country could be on the verge of significant change. so seeking to on where the president in the last isn't the sort of decision making. and because what i don't expected election of the time of the regional tension and turn of all certainty, i'm invited, guided with the united states could influence people's choices in the bottom of the actual address. you know, it's a home comb with full team pro democracy activism. and i'm guilty evaluating the national security no push 3 by beijing. the charges stem from the campaign calling for independent elections in the tertiary lane post them is the agent director with

human rights watch this as the convictions come, as no surprise, as the, as the best ranging in age from the twenty's to the sixty's in a $47.00 in total on trial. so this is a large trial. we have a feeling this, we have a former journalist, you have people who a lawyer is academics. so i think this is a really broad section of people in phone call. and i think that's actually what made the home call authorities so afraid that the democratic movement has to be spoiled, support what they were doing was late and they were trying to get aging to live up to its obligation to give home phone people universal suffrage. so they organized back in 2020 and informal time range. so it's 600000 people participated in that. um and that is something that, you know, honestly, it shouldn't really be controversial. but obviously in, on the phone they want it to send a message. and so they've been tried full sufficient pride this the national security law has had a 100 percent conviction res. um, but you know,

the reality is i think this conviction really shows. busy what other content, the hong kong and chinese authorities have that democratic political processes. i mean, what these people have been convicted of is holding an informal of crime rate. so you know, that is something that people should not be going to prison for. and yet time and again, we're seeing the application of the national security little is really designed to small the democratic movements in phone call. and i think that's what this sentence is trying to do. okay, that's it for me. my, the inside, the news continues here. now to 0 to full lights, the they fled from the world's most secretive states. now young north koreans are finding statement, fortune, celebrity influences, but shining a light on the home at kings and bring danger. one on one east meets north. korea's influence is coming out new lives online. despite the risk on al jazeera of

the one of the ladies birthday, for nearly 3 years. evelyn lemitrus has been investigating a chart fen trafficking operation. now she's putting together the team that's going to rate it a lexi though there's still but at the will. but attempts he saw less indeed at this bit of a hot most short vent to become a global commodity, prized as an ingredient and special soup in asia. sharps that played a vital role in the ocean for hundreds of millions of years, but the trade is now pushing some species to the brink of extinction. the list of trade in short, francis value to hundreds of millions of dollars a year. i'm which i didn't mind that then. okay. one more thing. go that on the

reading that i'm assume that we're talking about we gained exclusive access to a team of investigators ain't of dismantling or ring a short vend traffickers video. ok. think of that. he always thinks under the send me until then. so that doesn't give what else. we're following this car here as an investigator and a couple of cops in it. we're going to lead a rate today in the harbor against these traders who they say are putting some species a sharp at risk. is that correct? yes, that sounds a lot of the nadia of the for the statement and it's spelled like no data mafia. you just gotta pay investigation improved. also takes us to equity, where smuggler tells us details about where he sense it spends. i want to keep long before it becomes a group or, you know, to just follow up with a few of the little and we went under cover in new york city where shark fin soup has been illegal for

a decade to see if it's still being sold this is where we are in the whole thing, right of the this episode of the lights, we take you inside the world of sharpened smuggling, in the effort to crack down on the tree moist. you always think that always he'll be i saw no that be it again, some of your lovely, simple wind gamino. you could almost say the as a special prosecutor, charged with enforcing crews environmental laws. evelyn stays often started early. i left the money on that, then the most skate a we got them all saying affordably can what they call affiliated for it. sadly, i've done body for that in this week. gotten less and better. go see on this december on the sun go up to be that is i her plan this morning is to search

fishing boats coming in for short events. anybody's. he felt like the whole is the thing there. a lot of course on my products now, and you'll get the info, you know, given me at those cool, nice come especially is a what the gus can. let's go see your everyone has received threats for some of the network she's investigating. so she has police protection everywhere she goes, you'll mean you've seen why they get informed about the. * no, no, on the bessie gaiety or the not the p you. but at the point i'm not been thought of going through a movie that would have seemed play till they nope on that. i'm really slow. oh, they know, i said that and the value of this stuff may have been what do you support basically a higher mind them later for media a little them in middle. so the case, boy assume no less cost has to be a know when did you become aware of start

in trade? they knew that mean the safe comments almost up. i see that most solely instead of people of medicine, lucille a sort of a feeling that that's, that the world in phones is about to feel to be a common. some of i know that in 2018, evelyn and her team arrested to trap caught with truckload subtract fence leading to the 1st ever conviction in jail. send it to me preferred for sharpen trafficking . i don't have to work on that. i to fly out of a meal, put a lot of my meant they will know that uh is oh my baby. no, no. for the one you said uh i live you know what? i don't want to pay another month or what through. i knew the business, the short, vincent for it was legal, but heavily restricted. most of them are sold in the black market. they can go for more than $500.00 us dollars a pound in hong kong sharks and is an incredibly lucrative commodity. i mean the price per kilogram is equivalent to several different alyssa drugs and it's almost

like the now look it up. tell me what it says. i mean, don't you know that that's fantastic. well, i think are going to see him, but he is a hood. i think i hear from them and that is basically means that he goes to the indiana case, a king view only. so if at the politics you on his computer a late. but i didn't mean that in that kind of simple life and it will cost them will. yeah. and so, but i most i said okay, evelyn inspected fishing nets and the catch the bell to bring it up. some fishermen were not too happy with their presence and we will need the full so, you know, mean, did they send me this book captain was brandishing a nice one illegally, soon as next to go to like a smaller fish. they said, i thought of

a separate daniel or, or let the young lady say your say of the things that you'll feel good movies. i will spit on seeing. said he, that is the. yeah. whenever you really love as well, through the findings, shorts didn't somewhere in the see about the long shot, but even everyone is successful. the small time fishermen are not target building. when is the case, the only way you get most of this is simple with they are, they have some time as well. so you'll get an admin and this is done by that student that's missed a lot to him by the will in the middle side of go. so can say getting a little we'll see you as soon as can somebody when i get in the dark eco space, see where everything is. know, have some fun by the end or no for the for the phone, but the rest of the know we're looking for fun. it's a good thing. i am

a little bit. get us into industry. sodium. goodness, good. sadly, i will scott, at good. yes. let me though this illegal is required or that gave me and the us is to is the me in the, in a lot better. so not good. we always have to be nice and this is the handle. the proofing coastline stretches for more than 3000 kilometers the waters here and, and push for sharks for thousands of years. we're no, no gas here, no gas tall from, you know, and for the. ready best the best said that the one on it. no, i put it in my final lumen and instead of telling me allow me i am unable. ready to popularity of consuming shark fin. soup considers a delicacy in countries like china and thailand has cost a number of sharks of world wide deployment. as many as $100000000.00 sharks are harvested each year for their fence. you don't develop that in waycross,

expand law less produce. that's not my main the and i'm going to meet, i think of off what is the oh it is if this i, i think i meant that to say no, i don't approve you fit in the middle of the cost. it contains the entire marine eco system, the back of the francis cycle, more like one assignment, the fellow settlement known and can reach critics to help the wellbeing of the planets. oceans were sharp shipping over fished. some countries of the band, the short entry did not permit which isn't hers, just one of the leading exporters of sharks hands worldwide. we went out to see what's improving fishermen who spent their whole lives pushing these waters to about 10 p. m. now the last hour they've been bringing and then after the 1st time tonight, and then that goes much further than you were thinking. they really didn't take a full hour to bring it all in. but in their 1st catch,

they've got to hammerhead sharp for the best and see what always has the outcome. the other was done, they don't want people. this come to us, the monthly cost is a mostly saying you more safety and what's the name of the sample and all that kind of stuff. i don't think we're on this almost even so sharp fishing is francisco likelihood and he feels that artisan will fishermen like him are not the main problem when the press ok. you level this is the actual not unless you're not the not the most nice today. most inc, on you that think i'm going to spark plugs, but on this see 4 people get stuck on the, on the last the, this is one of the, of our ships. he's talking about. hundreds of chinese fishing vessels operate off the coast of south america, including for they are responsible for the majority of sharks, harvested from these waters. in the last 50 years,

the population of sharks has declined. i'm more than 70 percent. we watched as the fisherman brought their sharks into this port in northern for the plan to sell them, but they weren't very clear about what would happen with the fence. is there a black market or a gray market? as from the, the ending of the website. is this the one that i wanted to pursue so far? no one is willing to tell us what's gonna happen to the fence of these hammerhead sharks that they caught. it's a protected species, and i think the camera is making them nervous. so we're gonna have to keep looking to figure out where they're cut off. dr. and moved the additional marketing boat. we found shorts for sale, but it was just the trunk, so there's a cheap protein substitute. the most valuable part insurance depends,

had already been removed. but they may not be that far away. across the street from the fish market. everyone in her team have identified a been trying operation. i thought the convenience store in the settings based on being will be kind of building distance. it comes on the for the people that the modem is. i would only say 11 different thing. photographic evidence of difference on the roof. meaning that, let's say the latest you said with the pin for the, for what i mean, it's a little stone course is supposed to. i'm on the post that the modem. mean, i let the select the select the select this i live. this involves, but you don't says most most of them in a while you, i've got a part of it to say that they be cussing, but the said god most the most in your with just received word that the judge is

a for the re tablets barney headed over there were rushing there to meet her now the, the one, the thing was i was going to like the name on the police here. but i am not a civilian that easily identified a piece. piece of the. yeah. is side. yes. a good that are the what a lot of that it's aria that the for the with a b will resario the

telephone go down to gables. got like given when people that opened in the field where the med most of them and then we get inside this members office, the investigators found bags and bags of dried sharp pens. metallic tough guy. you must select the s s will have to get this out and milan so no, i will see must be on the outside for the problem. can you set that, that on the one bullet, by the way,

to get the escape? the evelyn entertain collected more than a $180.00 killers from 9 different species, including baby will sharp, which is endangered, and better stop review as well. but it also had meaning celebrates under your, my bad up there, monday. i know it's a stop. what are you? yeah, less that. so i'm going to send these assign you that on spot terms. part the process . i mean, 1st a space here and open at the will a form of the index. it don't source, but know these the same. we took the input to assign your sample of what i mean. and most going to, you know, it looks should be, will, a must have one double moscow in both the system knows that looses they gave them for one coming eval helps to convince the smuggler to cooperate with their investigation. issue choices the next way through the supply chain. why is it important? what, what you still pointed them off in and you know, for the client most of them at that point,

the ways that if i'm being in speed, i don't know nearly 55 percent of the short vents that are ex, border from, for actually coming from neighboring ecuador, shark fishing has been banned here for almost 20 years, but there's a loophole that can be brought to shore as part of a bi catch. meaning that they were caught by accident networks, the smugglers then move the product across the porous border to prove it. well, you meant the product of fast import bustles, can also look for them. at least a gives you a put in. but if i set it up as one, it will go out. you'll be a win win. that basically the north stuff i found the other going threads on the standard has one is the security situation in ecuador is worse and deeply over the past few years. international drug cartels involved in the homicide rate has skyrocketed in the last month, although under been 3 major political assassinations here. and even more times than

that, the violets is really shaken, ecuador, and dripping the sharks. ben trade even deeper. underground the under saturday morning weekend where access to the santa rosa market on the south west coast. when it's short, been smugglers got us while we were here, it didn't seem like anyone was inspecting the catch the windows and that the fish market in santa rosa. i don't see any government officials inspecting or observing one kind of look at buffy because the statement is going to allow for marcus. no, i use victoria how that we will. no, i 90 of the month just at least 9. not the seen the money today or that i, this is our team or caught a fisherman bringing the hammerhead sure most of this piece isn't data. he jumped

off the head and the body was destined for the pending power indistinguishable from the other sharks. the presence of the market quickly became problematic. the person who arrange to visit was threatened and asked us to leave the book before we left. we made another important connection fishermen who had just been a week on the high seas. off the coast of ecuador shared some of their videos with our team. they show a hammer, head shirt, protected spacing, is being hunted, and how the sharks for ultimately killed the new crime is so far out at sea that it is away from people's radar. a perception of sharks. this is scary. predators hasn't always lent them to be the most sympathetic animal, but people need to understand the importance that they play in maintaining

a healthy marine ecosystems. we wanted to find out what happens to the students after they lead the market. so we met a smuggler who was willing to share some of the secrets of the trait. but only we create the can see what was identity. how many sharpens do you buy every week or month? pre owned, and what do you remember? how soon after you sell your shark fence, what happens to them next? beautiful. beautiful, beautiful view. um, let's go remote in monta, a bigger coastal city in ecuador. there are large scale operations set up to drive the fence before they're smuggled out of the country because on the water or what the, the water up here to look at this point, most experts have told us that almost all sharks tends from south america are shipped directly to asia, what our contact had one more to us for us. we'll take care of one folder for

multiple on view apartments, we're going to be more. do you know if short fence are sent directly to the united states? the number one team on the bottom of the simple you wrote about mention they both are, i'm not sure, but i'm sure a lot of people do off on the one on the one that we've got the very, very powerful full for the new york had long been one of the largest ports of entry for short fence in the united states in 2013, but wanted years long campaign, but conservation groups. the state and district vend trade. in 2022, it was banned nationwide. we wanted to follow up on the information we received in ecuador, so we hired and experienced while black trafficking investigator to work with us.

we changed his voice to protect his identity. have you also been down in south america working on the shark fin issue? yes, i have been to the peru, ton of many countries in south america. it's highly illegal here. what are some of the challenges of trying to source this? if you walk into a fantasy chinese restaurant, the owner and a manager as they with united, do you ever need to do so those who are in the restaurant? because they see a strange face or new face. they will not take the risk because they don't. this is a vehicle. so it's impossible for me to walk in portable but sharpen so i think that you have almost 80 percent chance 0 percent. yeah. 0 percent. we dropped him off the shops and restaurants around the city. and just a few days, he made a break through a dinner reservation for, for that didn't otherwise nondescript chinese restaurant in brooklyn or

investigative reserved a table in a private room and arrange for 2 pounds of sharks to be served as part of an elegant meal. at $700.00 a purse of the in the kitchen, the ship showed off the fence. they've been prepared to move them into sort of a noodle for the special suit. we looked at the hand written and shark fin soup was listed as a 2nd course that didn't have virtually no taste. so the ship sewed them inside the skin of a whole chicken and cooked it for hours. in the soup is considered a status symbol is often reserved for special occasions such as weddings or banquets. while the service were out of the room, we removed from the fence from our boat and preserve them in

a plastic case. after the middle, the ship came in to meet our crew. he showed us a photo of the fins before it got them. he said they came not from peru or ecuador, but from goodness toilet we sent the soup to a laboratory deputy and extracted and tested the results confirmed with a short pin in the suit was often in new york, stopping the trade of it was instructions as the responsibility of the states department of environmental conservation. we shared the results of our investigation with them. they declined to speak with us on camera for answer any of our questions. the federal agency, the combat 12 by trafficking official language services also did not answer our questions. there should not be sales sharpens anywhere in the us. hey more. so it's

surprising that there isn't, it's disappointing but speaks to the challenges for really effectively implementing and enforcing this pro emissions own on our last day. and for, as evelyn was rounding up the fence rate, we searched for more trying operations nearby. were trying to be inconspicuous, but we're going to drive by. so what we can see from the street. can you see anything? it was clear that if we were going to find more fence, it would have to be from above which houses from that block over there. yeah. there we need to go. is our street one of these streets? it didn't take long before we found a house. they had even more finished drawing in the sun. although there covering every receivable which we shared our image. we definitely feel center feel sense which will see the name was going through. we need to spend. what is it

mosquito mrs. heath? almost. i you, this is he the most? are you a little? that's one thing is clear. this isn't just an issue of wild life as an escalating environmental catastrophe. in order to save the species, the spin on our planet longer than trees, sharks will need help from the various basics, pushing the brink of extinction. for most of most models, the newest pull inside of the soul, i mean, i don't know so local succulent way. nobody see in the middle of the big say 9 will 30 minutes. you'll workout on the toilet. meant to look and we'll do it. so this 3, it implemented that the in

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of thousands of young men and women, come down into the jungles to join the pro democracy forces and raw the fight against the ministry john to join their rex based forces. conscription makes resistance force stronger. now what accepts that road? so you, so now joining the people's defense forms instead of a conscript to buy the military. these volunteers, tang and sweat, then a hardship to that belief in a democratic future. i believe for which they say they're prepared to lay down their lives. the illusion of anti semitism with opposition to design is a cynical and it is harmful, a dangerous completion between the persecution of a people and the criticism of the states is echoing across the world news rooms on to semi kids and the hatred of jews. because the country is honest and is not about to lose it's about teacher. and we need to talk about the scientists and listening

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