going to cause pork is a very important part of the diet here in china china has to import pork from the united states and indeed other countries because domestic producers can't produce enough to satisfy demand here in china both carrying dozens of for a hinge on muslim refugees is trying to reach malaysia after stopping on thailand's west coast the vessel paused on an island in the krabby region because of bad weather the group came ashore and were given supplies before being escorted away by the time navy u.s. president donald trump says there will be no deal to protect hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who arrived in the u.s. as children president made the announcement about the so-called dreamers on twitter he's also threatened to pull out a free trade agreement with mexico that's if it doesn't do more to stop people from crossing the border. plus the rica's former labor minister carlos alvarado will be the country's next president the electoral commission says he comfortably won

a runoff of rado as from the center left ruling party he defeated an evangelical preacher who opposed same sex marriage i want to up next they with us this is really an attack on the truth itself is a lot of a sudden the standing of what free speech is supposed to be about the context of hugely important setting the stage for a serious debate out front at this time on al-jazeera. they are young vulnerable girls from near mars rural villages desperately poor they're sold a vision of money an adventure all they have to do is sign up to become maids in singapore. but for many the reality is far darker. i'm steve cho on this episode a one on one east we find out why girls who are too young to work continue to be

trafficked to asia's most prosperous nation. in may last year a young domestic worker from minbar had a terrifying fall from the night floor of this block of flats in singapore. her employer whom we will call john can still remember that day. a bounce that touches another soul gene cole told us how all of us some thoughts on to us sunlight a soul. what you call biscuit. not touch of a book i sing. one book i sing about how to. sing to jolt. the girl who join those tintin who was severely injured and is lucky to be alive. phool was broken by

a covered walkway two stories down john says he was initially very angry about what she'd done but then he found out something shocking from the myanmar embassy tintin was just fifteen years old what's on the. militants. and clearly and. i see. no harm in this is what sensible sorry. when he fossum. john and his wife tintin through a singapore an employment agency asset recruitment according to this information sheet prepared by the company she was twenty three years old. asset recruitment the client of repeated requests for comment. on them.

on the human juice all unfolds good so i. see it's a read so. that you will. hear. but tintin's is not an isolated case and story. didn't two thousand and sixteen in an exclusive investigation one of one east reveals that teenage girls were being trafficked from mint mark to singapore for domestic work you also think. this was despite laws in mid ma banning all female citizens from seeking such jobs overseas following reports of abuse. as well less laws in singapore stipulating that all foreign domestic workers have to be at least twenty three years old now we're discovering that the illegal trafficking of vulnerable young girls continues

. between three. and it. that's a conservative estimate. and the reporting. specked. to me and age alone is. that this is what you're. looking. for any domestic worker who has been abused seeking help can be a daunting prospect many agents hefty recruitment fees of up to eight months salary and would rather ensure ill treatment than risk being sent home and debt. also be

underage. trapped in households and do not know how to seek help so that's also net effect. of such cases. some cases end in tragedy. just four weeks off the arriving here domestic worker white wine allegedly jumped out of the window of her employer's eighteenth floor flat. at a funeral we meet her oldest sister choctaw who also came to singapore as a domestic worker. of volunteer from a migrant workers n.g.o.s helps to translate. and. this is from. a new person. but we don't get to speak further as church role is led away by officials from the myanmar embassy naomi oman.

to find out the truth about wine wine we travel to the mandalay region in central min ma. it's a world away from singapore. down a dirt track off the main road is in dorji village. this is where wine wine and her sister church all grew up and where their mother and family still live. their brother. has been unwell for months unable to work after a mine the wound became infected because he couldn't afford to get it treated. he and his wife have just had a baby. but he only wants to talk about his sister. but . the. and near.

warning i will leave it yet. why nothing of. what we. keep wasn't home when a recruitment agent from a neighboring village showed up one day. it was their mother who agreed to let wine wine go. away. from the girls and they. will let. you know. suspected wine wine was under-age family records show she was only seventeen. the same agent has recruited at least sixty goals from this village to go to singapore one of them has recently returned and come to visit family.

twenty years old unable to cope with being away from home she quit only a month after leaving me and my. mother tells us another of her daughters is still working in singapore remember that he was. the last. to model them. i'm a little. for the better part of the interview kinch will leave the talking to her mother but she does try to interrupt or wants to know any one thousand him and that level of loyalty to the motherland he bank not only vowed to hire now who now might let you know about all i know but i know my would love a little. for wine wines grieving family these are clearly

difficult words to hear but the neighbor doesn't stop and she wants us to know that she believes the agent is the villages benefactor to lao whole a lot to my legally of us a yemeni now miserable me bad yeah yeah he will yeah eighty g.b. to my knowledge now where. the level would i give. as little mikey he. days drive south takes us to the go region. we're hoping to see momo. we lost better on this rooftop in singapore as part of our two thousand and sixteen investigation. she was just seventeen when she went there as a domestic worker she told us she didn't use months of sexual abuse by her employer

to appear want to be all into it should not be at it should i be rushing on to be negative meaning near me don't you want to but i don't want you know why don't you don't want to be a woman i know and she said. she fled as soon as the eight months were up but had to remain at a shelter in singapore for another two years to assist police investigations. they finally allowed her to come home even though the case remains unresolved. not they had the baronet the rules honey united them and grow up almost take the who they were born i met them yeah. she's now five months pregnant. her husband doesn't have a regular job. at all and he and people who are minister of here do not have been out of any union sky and that you know it had

a color at the end and quietly. dog. at the waist high added. with so few opportunities it's no wonder girls from this village are still leaving for singapore. momo says despite what happened to her she doesn't try to stop them but out of the nigga who. called out what the mere thought of the man oh they need one of. them enough we need. the me as a woman the indian will only be a good hiding. and. the wily. tin tin is one domestic worker who didn't need help. she's the fifteen year old who accidentally fell from her employers apartment building she is still recovering from her injuries. she shows us

the possible that she used to get a job in singapore almost all the information in it is false at home she's no does is in sin and she was born in two thousand and two not one thousand nine hundred three. she confirms what happened in singapore and me out. there when i think. of that idea that i sing a lot i mean. i want to. call him that i think we're going to allow i mean. did you know that. she'd gone to work in singapore hoping to help support her impoverished family but because of the money she owed to her recruitment agents she came home with nothing now her mother has to take care of her instead of. me out of them you.

live. in the india of her. sins and fractured her spine when she fell but is now able to walk slowly off the donors paid for her to have surgery but she may need another operation soon. don and i meant it out on the town and i'm helping the other down an unarmed. she shows us her scars. it's unlikely they'll ever go away. but how did a fifteen year old pass for twenty three. we've received a tip off about the person who allegedly helped to make this happen. you know being in a battle

a noble and it or to nominate. the man in the picture is lewis song play tongue. he is a member of parliament from in mars' chin state. an online search tells us he's also the director of a company called me and mark global manpower link. the company name sounds awfully familiar story we've seen it before on a sign inside the recruitment agency in jang gone that we discovered in two thousand and sixteen was illegally sending girls to singapore you also say. this was despite men must ban on women working overseas as domestic workers. the website for the company lists several phone numbers. when we cross check them against the contact list of the country's politicians we find

a match one of the numbers belongs to us and song play tongue. we decide to give him a cool. we try the second number on the website. this time we have better luck. oh good. all good some of our research a says she's looking to send a nineteen year old domestic worker to singapore and a friend has recommended their agency. but the woman says she's no longer able to help to along in our shoes and i see this as a life going to make i omit the element that all i can tell and they are only in the end of it but my life issues they only in my own thought all along that. i do

not and when it is only that i don't want it oh who do you know. oh. you know. if what she says is true lewis was managing director of a company involved in it illegally sending domestic workers to singapore in contravention of the two thousand and fourteen pan. to find out more we travel to the outskirts of yang gone. looking for the office of min ma global manpower and link. according to the address on the company's website this should be it.

inside a man refuses to speak on camera but he tells us the house was leased by an employment agency which moved out recently even if it isn't easy and the neighbor has proved more approachable. to hide their identities. we show them a picture of louis' owned and ask if they've seen or recognize him something. to make the jump to the hump in a muddle below nothing to eat from my mouth moment from the pump. handle being a mom pollutants on the roof. treatment. from. misleading the public on to group lead over not on the. mom she rides the movie on the little events with the lead down of the under-sea level nothing.

to me and nothing to take. me to. the people here that are not all hoping. when one o one east spoke to lou a song he confirmed he was the managing director of myanmar global manpower link until two thousand and fifteen and remained a director until two thousand and sixteen he denied knowing the company was involved in illegal activities and rejected all of his ins ins allegations but he did admit to owning the house where the company had its office and that he had visited recently. agencies in the business of moving under-age girls overseas need one thing possible its with fake birth dates. a street near the young go on passport office is host to a thriving industry. for

a fee possible brokers can help clients circumvent all sorts of bureaucratic hassles and apparently even a few laws illegal. we randomly choose one and tell her a couple stories we're trying to send a nineteen year old domestic worker to singapore. someone doesn't want you to tell a. lonely. much older child. a second broker we approach is equally direct of that guillemot what. if that. then. i'll follow up.

with so many people making money off this illegal trade it's hard to stem the tide and local labor activist who says the blanket ban is doing more harm than good. corporate little and the heir to need much you need a well known a a so we are nearly. by monica kelana solution to not. all north end on a rail and can be made on no ending it. she says the situation is also more nuanced than it appears child labor is not uncommon in myanmar and domestic workers here can be as young as eleven years old. even my. child the only way. that i will tell the one of the young israel how will the

any million generally in it was out in. the law. or. in. at me and mas labor department we learn the government is acutely aware of the trafficking that's happening under its nose but spokesperson kinda way who says her department can only track the one hundred thirty women who went legally to work in singapore before the ban it's harder to help if an underage girl leaves me and more illegally at the philly alley into the road are all the and the. about of those not on the day another mere. thought clear the same of the mere thought. the way you will. it appears that when there are cases of exploitation and abuse the labor department

expects the traffickers to look after the goals they traffic. we ask if myanmar and singapore are working together to solve the problem and you know never on monday in intel who don't want all of the our nominees or seen one not only who made into mom obama who were the unability. back in singapore it's clear to see the band isn't working. every week hundreds of domestic workers from myanmar gather here to enjoy their day off. most if not all of them have managed to circumvent the ban. some of those like they are still in their teens. when we raised the issue with singapore's ministry of manpower they responded in writing saying the passport

remains the primary document for identification and age verification it is thus important for thora ts in the source country to ensure the accuracy of the details in the passports. it's four months since a sister's death and churchill is still grieving. when we first met at the funeral she told us why mine was twenty three or twenty four. but now she says she was too scared to reveal the truth. their agent had instructed her to lie to land the machine in order and then boom and. it's hard letting go. churchill still can't believe a sister killed herself and in them home. know the end of.

the year and have a meal at the mishearing now buy me a wine at a new meet on friday and. the two sisters never got to be in singapore. choi had been trying for days to reach wine wine when she received news of her death. that was nearly four months ago but she still doesn't know what happened. we've come to the condominium where wine wine was walking and where she did allegedly jumped eighteen fruitless to her death. is hoping to meet her sister's employer but she's scared to go inside. so we offer to make the initial approach for. but the employer doesn't want to meet churchill instead she tells security to throw us out

there got here. family a film a domestic nothing on to find out i'm sure that i live with this is my interest and confrontation she just wants to know what happened to my younger sister. he's just saying he's a sorry yeah what happened if you can you stop here with no. one. whine whine was only seventeen when she died. doesn't think she'll ever know why. the room beaming hope that he got down easy and the day i went down instead well mom don't you know. you know maybe you mean the real me back

when you see. she regrets not trying harder to reach whine whine. but most of all she regrets not telling her under-age sister to stay at home. china's big brother is always watching at home. when he's the best agaves i know we'll go to control it's citizens. on a visit. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home . we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to.

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international condemnation israel denies using excessive force china has slapped tariffs of up to twenty five percent on more than one hundred twenty u.s. products including pork and wine the move comes after the u.s. raised duties on foreign steel minium imports last month are china correspondent adrian brown has more from beijing. one hundred twenty eight items in all including pork wine nuts and fruit and those tariffs will be imposed from today so from today it's going to be more expensive for chinese consumers to buy poor can of course pork is a very important part of the diet here in china china has to import pork from the united states and indeed other countries because domestic producers can't produce enough to satisfy demand here in china an abandoned chinese space laboratory has crashed back to earth china's space agency says the tiangong one mostly burned up

on reentry over the south pacific.