exception. all the streets in the country will be blockaded along with railways the metro and the airport everything that can be will be bought. two suicide bomb attacks at a mosque in northeastern nigeria have killed at least twenty seven people. one of the attackers went into the mosque along with worshippers for afternoon prayers. after the first explosion a second blast killed others trying to escape in a movie in adam our state no group has yet claimed responsibility but. morocco has severed diplomatic ties with iran accusing terror on of supporting the opposition group the policy area front policy areas fighting for independence for western sahara most of which is under moroccan control morocco accuses iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah of supporting policy by training and arming its fighters oracle would close its embassy in tehran and will expel the iranian ambassador in robots the highest ranking chinese official to visit north korea and three years as

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the three hundred years the most powerful nations on earth group richer and stronger on the profits of the slave trade over twelve million men women and children will also be transported from africa on slave ships like this to the colonies and plantations in north and south america today slavery is illegal in every country on the planet but the truth is slavery did not die in the nineteenth century it is a life that is thriving and it is bigger than ever. this series investigates the very small the evil of twenty first century slavery.

from the smallest villages in asia to some of the most economically vibrant cities in the west. but it begins in the last place you'd expect to find slaves. a country which only a few generations ago toward self a pause to hope will slavery a country still rocked by collective guilt over its role in the transatlantic trade . the united states probably has between forty and fifty thousand slate. measured conservatively but i think also to be fair the united states is one of the governments that has been. asked about the extent the amount and precise crime against the united states. one hundred fifty years ago if you walked around the heart of the u.s.

capitol you could have a slave of a street corner and this country how to go through a painful civil war in order to bring slavery and i'm in the twenty first century there's no doubt that the united states is leading the way in the fight against modern slavery and this testament to that this country is planning to prosecute the largest ever case against modern slavery. but behind the. rest of the world. there is possibility that there's very.

very. that you. could have been brought to your table. in the land of the free. in the remote. of thailand life has continued unchanged for centuries. close knit families counts of subsistence living by working on. rights fees. and it was here in two thousand and three the agents for an american farm worker recruitment company came calling. us

up on. the needs of us all and the nightmare may be back. here. where my. family's in lump and less than one thousand dollars a year. the recruiters told them that in america they would fifty thousand dollars. there was just. to pay illegally high registration fees to the recruiters up front and the. recruitment base were high they were generally between five hundred and seven hundred fifty thousand or between fifteen and twenty thousand dollars but for three years of. they believed guaranteed work in the contract and say three years

employment at a rate of eight or nine dollars an hour so when the guys did the math they figured that they could pay off their debt in the first. and then the second and third years would basically profit for their family. and what. if the fact. that decision would be made by more than one thousand men like. in this impoverished corner of thailand was the start of a journey that began with a dream of a future. in slavery.

only. this is where friends and four of those men were sent a lewd songs on honolulu a key supply routes and vegetables to major will some brands. but very quickly eludes new time recruits found a dream they had been sold turned into a nightmare. the problems really started early on for the guys their passports were taken shortly upon arrival they did not have enough food many times they were given moldy bread if anything at all and coffee and oftentimes they didn't have probably most mornings they didn't have enough to eat before going out and starting

their toiling in the in the very hot sun on the of the plains which is where loon farms is is located. about was. a pow. and i studied. these all the maps that's why i want to know how we slept and then when my died and the next batch of gentlewomen like i fell behind on my saddle. and i just move on to me. and i don't mean it and i'm getting. it back to usual with you i just want to have someone ask you people for me to come to meet you. and then the promise to pay a small fee to dry. they were given the amount of work but the amount of hours per week that was promised and they very quickly started to see again calculating the math in their heads that they weren't going to be able to pay the interest on the

debt much less to start paying down the debt. without money and i deleted all my new remote. hi with his from themselves. there's even if there is to. get out of the up and. up. the. moment they don't happen you know. where you're. going. but. in december two thousand and nine the owners of a loon farms brothers mike and alex pled guilty to charges of conspiring to hold the time and conditions of. knowing

about the illegal recruitment fees confiscating the workers' passports and threatening them with financial ruin if they try to escape. what makes this case one of more than slavery forced labor they were constantly being told that if they if they complained. if they didn't work extra hard they were going to be sent home and it was it was the fear of being sent home and the fear of of of losing everything their family they kept. in that condition and i think you know there are different ways of chaining and imprisoning someone all time slavery was i think much more fear of physical. abuse and harm and even death here the threat wasn't so much physical the threat the fear for the victims was complete destitution and loss for their family and they would lose everything and

that kept that kept them in that. this is also agreed to pay each of the victims eight thousand dollars compensation enough to enable them to go home to thailand. but what happened next would dash even that. on honolulu many of those victims had waited years to see the case come to. but this summer and despite the sea brothers' previous guilty pleas elude prosecution was dismissed on a legal technicality. it left the thai workers without their promised money and completely devastate. someone.

like. how. i met your. daughter. and i. don't. come up there with the name a comet that. went up on. a loon wasn't the only business impeaching him whole british time and at the same time global horizons incorporated a multi-million dollar recruitment agency in los angeles was operating an identical scheme but on a much larger scale. global

rise and essentially applied for it he says for over a thousand typhoid workers to be brought into this country and they were placed on farms to. the united states on the mainland and off the mainland and they were growing and harvesting all kinds of produce they were on pig farms they're on a farm there on chicken farms you name it. global targets at the same impoverished villages in thailand as a loon farm. and it's really just the same illegally high registration. there's a set cap of how much you're supposed to pay for work abroad so in this case for farm work in the u.s. the workers should not be paying more than sixty thousand baht that is entirely

currency. but in fact would have ended up happening the workers who are tote that they have to pay nine hundred thousand but. they ended up having to mortgage their lands and their homes. and had to. take money from loan sharks borrow money to massive exorbitant debt and and pay high interest on it signed up with global horizons in two thousand and four. and i like. that i can be american. in a bag and i'm not so in gippsland. i'm right i'm not in the right to do so when i'm not. but i'm really back. on its mortgaged his home

the american dream turned sour very quickly when my. time was up. i don't see how i got there are. not going to say it. god i'm running. our bring home again my name and i get a man got up i want to love god my new condo my new god and his idea was out the top ten mine and i can give you one you will do they're going to love a number of songs old and new meaning wrong i'm moving along i'm a whole nonchalant too i'm going child. many of. my neighbors. now many tours i wish i. could have. gone behind and go about. this is the man who owned and operated global horizons incorporated an israeli businessman called mordechai orian.

historians' extensive business dealings in the united states brought him wealth and to whom in the hills above the sentence. but both mr oriel i'm global have a long and checkered history. there are many actions filed against mr ryan now u.s. federal department labor charges against him. for back wages and penalties and then there are liens on his properties by the i.r.s. the internal revenue service of the federal government because of pay taxes there's also immigration violations. in two thousand and seven individual time workers began arriving at the time and community development center

in los angeles. each told a story of having to escape from what they called slavery. they came as far up north as pacific northwest state of washington oregon and then the. desert states you to arizona new mexico and going south texas louisiana florida these are the states where they skate from the farms they were on south carolina. all the way up to east coast and then of course the hawaii the different islands of hawaii but it covers the entire country where the farms where the former slaves were able to sort of run away for that's right. son it's was one of those who escaped. and one day.

i might do you think the night down hale and i got a. hole now why now. why do you get. what i want on home and when i can wow. i'm going to. get any old guy. but escaping from slavery has not made him free. there landing on. so many salary me on it i did my. gun and by. my. oh man today you. don't i need a lot problems. and what. might die handlers have done any.

more. in september two thousand and ten the f.b.i. and justice department charged mordechai orian and his key lifton incident global horizons with multiple counts of human trafficking the indictment alleges that global horizons knew about the illegal recruitment fees and took a cuts of them held hundreds of time workers as forced labor on farms across the united states confiscated their passports and deployed armed guards to prevent them from leaving. this is by far the most significant case in u.s. history of human trafficking and modern day slavery because it will now become go like this case of human trafficking in u.s. history because of the sheer number of victims involved. trial is

not due to start until february two thousand and twelve but after months of negotiation he agreed to meet us in a california hotel room. he now claims he is the victim of a plot by the justice department to cover up flaws in the regulations covering migrant workers coming to america so now there is a problem is that this guy this little jew israeli whatever he come from it's blaming him for everything that we hate and make you to be his human trafficking americanus but you can so you much i mean about anything in fact if you if that's the philosophy of human trafficking so everything is you're much african going airplane from hawaii to l.a. human trafficking so all their lives and human trafficking business because we traffic my walkers from island to island hawaiian airlines with regard to the registration fees the government alleges that some of these words high as twenty one thousand u.s. dollars i think it's a totally wrong what you say because i don't believe that they pay this kind amount

of money i think it's fiction if i'm retired just let's go reverse now and somebody told me i'm going to have a job in another country and by the way this is up and for every country around the ward and i would really eager to go there ok i'll do anything i can to make it happen and i'll go to extreme because i'm jewish the people in the holocaust done anything they can to serve their life you know how many american people to they would be happy to get ten dollars an hour net in their pocket and have somebody pay for them housing transportation take them to walk every day all take my grandmother shopping once a week that's what you call human trafficking. in february of two thousand and eleven one of more high aryans most senior left tenants decided to enter into a plea bargain with the u.s. justice department and agreed to turn evidence against his former ally mr bruce schwartz said that he knowingly conspired to in slave time workers with the full

knowledge of mr laurean and other members of global horizons that together they withheld the passports of the thai workers thus making it impossible for them to escape and they also knowingly used the huge amount of debts that the thai workers had entered into as a way of enforcing the thai workers to remain in global horizons employment. after everything that you have had to face in your code if you personally do you have any regrets i believe if i was myself i would not regret and i think i'll fight it to so now because i think what i've done was a great thing i changed people's life i think the pain of what my family went through and my kids it was a little if i can call it a little holocaust for my family in that if nothing else. and his alleged victims have something in common. what.

we're about what. about what did. you have to do. parallel. to your. twitter. subclinical me with. me but i don't really well. young annoy or what i do you know about all who in one of the. couple got across the united states many of the victims of global horizons

a pinning their hopes on the trial of. but the collapse of the prosecution has dented their faith in the us legal system does the american government do enough to end slavery within its borders absolutely not it needs to spend a billion a year perhaps to really wipe it out it spends maybe one hundred two hundred fifty million and it barely scratches the surface and the thing that's heartbreaking about that fact is that the united states could be a slave free country. today hundreds of the thai slaves who were victims of a new farms and global horizons remain trapped in the united states. unable to return home because of their debts and separates it from the families when they could try to. get.

on with yeah. i. think. from the very beginning until the very end. is big business. no hallway to. the must be an organizing.

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