the, the, the city that we can use live from building pakistan's, pulling the prime minister and run con, is sentenced to 10 easy child. the court finds him guilty of revealing official secrets. the verdict comes just days before complimentary elections are held in, packets dumped. also coming out crypto, a current c fraud, and alleged abuse at the hands of a chinese mafia. dw investigates a secretary of me on march scan factory will bring you exclusive insights on the comic is riley. sanchez killed. 3 people experience with part of a terrorist. still in the west bank hospital will find out more about the right and

what implications you might have. and pressure grows on presidential i bought into or tally i following a drawing strike on. are you a spice in the middle east? america's days, it will take all necessary options off to the attack in jordan kills 3 of his troops. the jared raid, welcome to the side. we stopped in patches done with full. my prime minister in brun khan has been sentenced to 10 years in jail, full revealing state secrets, cons, legal team safety will appeal to judgment. con was ousted from power through. i'm not confident inspired empowerment back in april 2022. he's not allowed to run for elections state for february, the high spot, he does continue to have significant public support. con is currently in prison, serving a 3 year term, as part of

a separate draft case from london. i'm joined now by the old people carry from him round cons potty pack his dentist rekey in south o. p t i is a senior leader of the party and a close eye to the former prime minister. welcome to the w, sir. could you tell us, what does this verdict mean for him or on con? well, this is writing on the was the way that this, uh, this hearing and the whole case was being conducted unlawfully until even late, late night, midnight. last night. it was going on. it's like the most lost track case 7 bucks on history, probably, and demands that ponds. lawyers were not allowed to even speak on his behalf or even cross examine any of the witnesses that were presented uh by the prosecution. um, so we probably expected a little bit less than this even. um, but like i said, it's a lower court. i know it's just already been appealed in the high court,

and the supreme court, which we know will find justice and did tell us what does this mean for him? run cons, political korea? is it over as well? not at all. if anything, uh this sentence is probably, uh, 5 uh, incentivized. um, you know, all the voters for the upcoming elections on february, 8th, those that probably we're gonna sit on the fence. i'll probably going to be more motivated and most likely show up in higher and larger numbers to vote for him on han and his party p t. i know there's been previous prime ministers, including the wash chief who has been welcome back, although he's been a conduct a conduct, a conduct, a condo, and from the supreme court of box on and then ran to london and, and now has just come back. he was previously given 10 years as well and banned from politics for the entirety of his life span. he is now that decision has been

overtime and he's a return back into politics. and even off of the 10 year band, he became prime minister as well. so right, you know, we see this happening in the end throughout history, in the last 70 years of the box on the difference with him on han. and the other problem is, is that he's the most popular lead a box on has seen, and the public a standing with this. of course, this verdict defense in wrong. com is to set back not only for him, but for your policies a guess for the upcoming elections. how it will perform your convince you'll potty can survive this. yes, absolutely. um. we've survived an onslaught of human rights violations in the last 2 years. practically, we've had more than 13000 people in prison, or our senior leadership is jailed up and eggs out. well in hiding and fox on. you know, children have been abducted women and all sorts. so this, like i said, actually is not going to go in favor of them. this is actually going to motivate

all the voters to come out on february 8, even more and larger numbers to vote for him on hon. so we're taking the positive out of this and a feeling it legally and having face and the supreme court, and then the high court of the country. you, sir, you will appeal. the court did decide though, that he leaked a top secret document while he was the prime minister. this is a, a pretty serious accusation. is it not? well, in this case, went to the supreme court. don't forget, this is the same case that's supreme court given bales on. this is the court that's giving it to him now was clearly manipulated. it was doing hearings from morning to midnight, which has never been seen before in history. they weren't listening to anything that mont, hon, or his legal team, had to say. it was a pre determined decision. thinking that if the bad and gone hon prior to elections, that was somehow suppress is popularity. it's, it's a severe accusation which is completely untrue. let me remind everyone that the

cipher was declassified by the federal government of the country during amount of hans term. um, so it's not even a classified document. so how you can be charged for revealing state secrets on the declassified document is beyond any logical and tablets of people carry senior p t i policies later, and i to the full not august on the prime minister and run con, we thank you for your time thank you. now survive is all alleged abuse in me. i might have been speaking to dw, about the horrifying treatment inside a secretive so called scam factory, held against the wheel. in an operation involving crime syndicates, these victims of human trafficking, a force to execute clicked the current c fraud. report has joined a team trying to find and rescue them. the names of the interview ways in this exclusive report have been changed for their own protection. and this

compound on me and most boda with thailand, thousands of people, a working to trick people in china, the us and europe out of the savings. but the people inside on doing so for personal profit, they've been traffic from across the globe and being forced to work in a scam factory and slaves like conditions. if there is no plans with no, no lunch. if someone checks and you didn't reply to atlanta the be to or make you stand for hours. lucas, this part of the group that managed to escape a scam factory known as k k puck. it's one of the around 12 such compounds in this area as me and most current state. and it's one of the most notorious, secure to us taking our computers, seeing if we are doing our job or plane. we work $17.00 a day. no complains, no holidays, no rest. and if we say we want to leave,

they tell us they will sell us or kill us. so they did what they would told make contact with people on the internet when that trust and convince them to invest and fake crypto currency thoughts. once the victims have sent enough money, the website is shut down and the money gone. this sophisticated form of scanning is called pick, butchering and the united nations office on drugs and crime estimate such scams, generate mold revenue, then the drug trade in southeast asia. the k. k. pog alone makes tens of millions of your as a months, apparently enabled by soldiers of me and mas buddha god, and on the backs of helpless victims of human trafficking. last message says, we are in a bunker after the river. what's done, the ends of that river on the tie side of the boat to a team of 8 y, cuz it's on

a mission to help them escape to. so timing is critical, victims sometimes transferred and taxis to other compounds by a thailand because the rates there are foster one sofa. that's when do the initial act. i'm looking for a taxi with the license quite 95 yellow and blue coming up on that side of the ride . it's a dangerous mission. they don't know if traffic is out in the car. they turned down a side street for like a flight provisions, and that's about the best time the lucky they all know um, traffic is inside. there's no opposition from the taxi driver and judah and michelle managed to, i should the great into that. i caught my names to that nice to meet you, the group i brought to a safe house for a much needed rest. the next step will be dealing with immigration authorities. but

you know, not an easy experience. and i hope i can go back to my country and find a job that i was credited to for, to start a new life. aaron and lucas, but eventually recognized as victims of human trafficking and re petri a to to the home country. but thousands of victims of still trapped at k k park and other scam factories somewhere on the me and my thailand. buddha, as we can talk now to jason towel, he is the country director for the band program at the us institute of peace. welcome to the w, you'd been aware of this problem as i understand for some time the survivors featured in our report described, taught shaw and death threats by the captive. to what extent to these accounts match your own research? yeah, absolutely. i mean, we've seen um, you know,

instances from across me m r. uh, they're being use of torture and these compounds. you also notably have a very recent case. this is from last october aware that there was an attempt by a very large number of individuals while over a 100 individuals tried to escape a compound up in the china, me and my border in the co. com territory and security forces actually opened fire resulting in the desktop multiple individuals who are trying to be back comp pounds . so, you know, you're seeing a torture murder, as well as very serious psychological threats that are being used in order to get people to scam um, but then also to prevent people from, from leaving. indeed, very shocking. an article you co authored in 2022 describes i guess a post closer the explosion of human trafficking for labor in parts of me on my

could you explain the link to carpet for us to sure. so actually a lot of the areas in which these pig butchering scans are taking place. they were initially built out for alyssa, off shore um gambling operations and that targeted largely chinese nationals, massive amounts of capital or a port in to me, m r and the timing of my border area, the training me and my border and other places across the region to build out these . ok, so you know, cities. now during the pandemic, what happened was the casino cities last access to labor. and also the entire business model for the online gambling industry was pretty seriously disrupted by some of the china is you know, growing policies to, to regulate this. and so what you saw happened was these, um, criminal networks shifted to, to now being shifted to um,

human traffic thing to start bringing labor in. and they also shifted away from operating, um, uh, the online casinos to perpetrating these pick butchering schemes. so you saw after 2020 that there was a very significant up check in and fraud hitting initially chinese nationals, but then increasingly going global as the, the stem us and the kids started to traffic nationals from other countries as it was difficult during pandemic times to be able to bring an adequate labor from china, and then they also started to roll out the scam targeting people in many different countries around the world. so we're seeing increasingly the patterns are that the scam send, the kids are going after people in the united states, people in europe, and really the rest of the world to a greater and greater extent, dice, and we've got about 30 seconds list. our investigative team basically states that

the problem in myanmar is of the fact that on groups control board areas, they can act with impunity considering the, the political climate in the unmarked. is there a way to change this? so yeah, i think the member military itself has been the biggest enabler of a lot of this activity. it has under its border guard forces, ben, you know, providing protection to the scam, send the kids recently. you did see, and that's fine. m u m r border area, an effort by some of the resistance groups to actually around a cage. and some of these scam syndicates as well as to eradicate the presence of the me, i'm or military that was on again the trying to me and my border area. um it does seem to have um, disrupted this industry to some extent. so i'm gonna try and m u m r border. and so, you know, i think one of the key things to look at is, are there ways to similarly begin cracking down harder on,

on some of these scam syndicates on the tie border and really in other parts of the region and what we've been missing. so far is, is kind of a whole list that crack down that involves careful coordination between a wide range of countries. and i think if you were able to, to get that out and able to deal a little bit more wisdom in our military's role in protecting these scam syndicates, you might be able to make more headway. thank you for your insights, the jobs. and that was dry, some time with the country director for the program at the us institute of peace. thank you very much. thank you. and you can see the full documentary here on t w 115 at central european time. or you can go through like youtube channel and search for t w documents. res. are well enough in use now is rouse them, electricity is eat, has killed 3 members of water. it's cooling a terrorist cell in

a hospital in the west bank is relatives and militants. were using the facility engine name is calvo, c c t. think footage released on social media appears to show is riley security forces partly disguised as medical stuff carrying out the right. the director of the given seen a hospital said at least one of the targeted man was receiving treatment. they corresponded, been physical and this dining bye for us in jerusalem. been. hi dave, what more can you tell us about this? is riley miller treat right on the is a name hospital tide yard. the is where the military is saying that 3 palestinian gunman were killed in this right. one of us bimbo who was allegedly preparing a terrorist attack and spied by the october 7 attacks on the east. well, one from the islamic jihad, an ally of the almost terrorist group, and also one more group of janine based gunman. both of those last 2 said to of allegedly being involved in recent attacks. now how much is called the hospital

killings, a continuation of the occupations on going aggression against out people from gaza to jeanine, jeanine long being considered a hot bed of terrorist activity. janine also having a witness to an upsurge in unrest as in field type of 7 attacks has been moving across the gauze. and now what's the current situation with the fighting there in the diplomatic attempts like us to end? there were reports coming in of a renewed push for gaza city. which comes as a bit of a surprise considering that israel late last year had said that it pretty much had the area under control. but reports from residence of air strikes tank showing from the east naval vessels firing from the west and gun battles near the main hospital, schieffer and a large number of palestinian civilians having being killed negotiations. a

continuing lead by the us as far as a ceasefire goes, but there are set to be big gaps between both sides. neither wanting to back down the is way be saying they want to see all of those hostages more than a 100 of them still being held by hamas and other groups and gaza released uh how much saying it wants to see the is way the troops with through withdrawn from the gaza strip, but it said that a draft proposal lower agreement includes at the moment a phased released of hostages. we'll see if we get more details at some stage this week. it's also said to include a 2 month truce pencil in the interest. one, thanks so much for that. been with us as promising what it's cooling, a very consequential response to a drawing attack that killed 3 of its troops in jordan. and we're going to move in force. he offers us officials side to strike on sunday. he'd

a military outpost knowing his talent, 22 near the border with syria. according to media reports, the enemy drawn wasn't shot down because it might have been mistaken for a us drying in the area. us officials blame you, run back milliseconds for the attack though you run denies being involved since the start of the israel. how must full last october. they've been mold in 150 attacks on us forces in the middle east. missiles fly towards the red sea targeting ships from lebanon into israel, and from a rack into jordan. all fired by groups backed by a rob on their own backs. more than a dozen proxies in lebanon, syria, erac, yeah, man. and god projecting its influence across the region. and aiming to drive out american troops. there over $30000.00 us forces stationed across the middle east. from several 100 in syria to more than 10000 agent guitar in the united arab

emirates. since october 7th, the us also brought warships that have moved closer to israel and guys of so many us soldiers near so many proxy armies and dozens of tit for tat attacks and counter attacks, but no direct confrontation with around so far. iran says it doesn't control the groups, it's funding, well, i'm all of my government resistance groups across the region. do not take all to somebody's lumnick republic could be wrong that these let me group probably could be wrong. why that does not welcome the expansion of conflicts in the region, doesn't interfere in decision making by resistance groups that are testing me multi google volume all the math. but since the islamic revolution in 1979, iran has built up its support for those proxies. sending them hundreds of millions of dollars per year. it's 1st big success for the proxy for us happened in 1983 and 11. and when the hezbollah truck bombing at the us army barracks killed more than

$200.00 soldiers, the us withdrew its forces from the country. meanwhile, has built built a huge arsenal of missiles since her mazda is terror attack on october 7th. hezbollah has nearly daily fired rockets into his re hey, ron, also arms the who's the rebels in yemen. after israel invaded garza the who these attack ships and the red sea, the u. s. has bombed who the positions, but the group continues its attacks. you have another front is in iraq and syria, where ron appears to be encouraging it's militias to attack us military bases. washington has responded with its own strikes. the drone attack on us forces in jordan was the 1st since october 7th, to kill american soldiers. 3 people lost their lives. the attack was claimed by the islamic resistance in a rack or collection of militias backed by a rock. the us says it will mount

a consequential response entail. now the us and iran have been locked in a war of words. careful not to attack each other as military's, but the fatal strike on us troops has created pressure from republicans on president biden, to hit iran itself, bringing the 2 countries even closer to direct confrontation. you know, steinberg is the middle east expert at the gym and institute for international and security affairs, the s w p here in building data. welcome back to the w. us. officials believe that this a drawing attack has quite the footprint solve in iran backed rocky militia, cold could tie pest, blah. what do we know about this group? as well as the english translation is, this is paula battalions. and it is an organization that is in dependence. it is distinct from the 11. these is by law. it has, he emerged in the years up to the american invasion of iraq in 2003. and

at the time, it was quite successful in fighting the american troops in the rock ever since. 2014, it has re emerged on the scene and is probably the strongest iranian proxy in iraq. it is an organization that is closely linked to the eclipse pre gates of the wrong and revolutionary guides. and of course, in the it is, it is very closely linked to the political leadership in e rodney. this loyal to the wrong, it is not the lawyer to the rocky state. yes and, and to ron doesn't deny funding a number of proxy militias in the middle east, but it says it doesn't control them. are you convinced by that? well, that is partly true. the uh, it is quite a diverse network of organizations that we are talking about. and the

relationship between iran and some of these groups is very close. as, for example, the relationships between checked wrong and beloved nice whose fault is extremely close. and in some cases is it is not as close to me that the best example is perhaps the palestinian hum us power. but his for law is very close to the wrong and revolutionary guides. and i believe that it is a think about that and the wrong, the organization, any rock hope, the traits and the attack on don't damien territory and international attack on american troops with out the consent off of the off the rodney military. let's dig into that a little bit more. how would escalating military tensions in the middle a serve? the interest of you wrong when you, you wrong follows a to a strategy in the region right now. at 1st, it does not belong to a major,

major escalation involving forks on to the american law is rarely a tax on your, on the and talk. it's part of the reason is that you're wrong is only a nuclear threshold state. meaning that it doesn't, it doesn't have access to nuclear weapons and that for it is, it is quite cautious in its responses to what is happening in the region at the same time of the wrong. the leadership wants to push us forces out of the region in order to establish its own head, germany and the american troops in syria and in the rock and connected to this in north, on northeastern. jordan are, is especially especially important for the rodney and leadership. so it wants to the, uh, it wants to avoid an escalation, but at the same time it wants to meet its goes concerning the americans in order to

make a future attack against israel. a possible to that was the last time the exam is the least x, but from the gym and institute for international and security phase kito, we really appreciate your insights. thank you very much. thank you. thanks for having finally now, take a look at these pretty amazing image is taken by the web. tell us skype, situated in space, one and a half 1000000 kilometers away from us. now, they depict spiral galaxies relatively close to our own shine, with a clarity never seen before. scientists can count millions of stars spread throughout these galaxies, also visible in unprecedented days. how it's very cold gas holes and glowing dust. the images reveal evidence of how stars and galaxies are formed.

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