in china for trade talks president travels to slap tariffs on billions of dollars worth of chinese exports to the u.s. including steel and alimony and treasury secretary steve menuhin and commerce secretary wobble ross are trying to hammer out a deal with chinese officials in the hopes of avoiding a trade war adrian brown has more from beijing they'll have a meeting with the ambassador and then those first talks are due to happen on thursday afternoon beijing time there be a dinner in the evening and then the real talking will resume again on friday so not a lot of time to deal with the many complex issues now before them but these are the first highlevel talks to happen between the united states and china since the current trade friction began to remember both countries are currently threatening to impose massive tariffs on each other's imports armenia's opposition leader has called off nationwide protests that's after the ruling party agreed to support his bid to become the interim prime minister because pushing yen announced the deal

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on. the three hundred years the most powerful nations on earth grew richer and stronger on the profits of the slave trade over twelve million men women and children would 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 it is thriving and it is bigger than ever. this series investigates the very modern people 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 outlaw slavery a country still racked by collective guilt over its role in the transatlantic trade . the united states probably has between forty and fifty thousand or so. 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 of incitement within 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 just test them and for that this country is planning to prosecute the largest ever case against modern slavery. but behind the.

possibility that there's very. very. that you could have been brought to your table. in the land of the free. do you see. how. saddam had. kept all the time but. in the remote province's of thailand life has continued unchanged for centuries. close knit families eke out

a subsistence living by working on sister lands and rights fees. and it was here in two thousand and three the agents for an american farm worker recruitment company came calling. up on. the needs of us all and me and i knew they would be back up owing a young american woman going to go back where humanity. getting them and in kenya. families in a lump and less than one thousand dollars a year. the recruiters told them that in america they would fifty thousand dollars. there was just one. they had to pay illegally high registration fees to the recruiters up front and then. the

recruitment base were high they were generally between five hundred and seven hundred fifty thousand or between fifteen and twenty thousand u.s. dollars. for three years of. they believed in the contracted. 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 year and then the second and third years would basically profit for their families. if the. decision would be made by me and 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 in. the. this is where some of those men were sent. the key supply routes and vegetables to major will some brands. but very quickly lose new recruits from the 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 luke farms is is located. a ball was at the top of a pow. and i studied my heart i know that these all the mass stuff i want to know always blow up. in my diet and the next batch of gentlewomen like i fell behind on my tackle that might upset about it cannot be proven to me. and i don't mean it and i'm getting. it back to usual with you i just want to have and want to ask you before making something weird you know. and then the promise to

pay small so 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 home remove. the tie with his from themselves. there is a. bit of that that but. the one. thing that happened. 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. the suse admitted 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 losing everything for their family that kept them 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. 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. poet. and i. don't. know why you come up with the name. but when i. went to pick up on. a loon song this wasn't the only business impeaching him whole bridge time man but

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. the. global rise and essentially applied for at least for over a thousand workers to be brought into this country and they were placed on farms to . out 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 there on a farm there on chicken farms you name it. global targeted the same impoverished villages in thailand as a loon farm. and it's really the same illegally high registration.

there is a set cap of how much you're supposed to pay for work abroad so in this case for farm work in the us the worker should not be paying more than sixty thousand baht that is entirely in thai currency. but in fact would have ended up happening the workers were towed that they had to pay nine hundred thousand baht. 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 a high interest senate signed up with global horizons in two thousand and four. and i quote. that i can be american. in a bag and so in

a diplomat. i'm right i'm not in the right. but i'm really. sonnets mortgaged his home his fields and his father's land to pay the recruiters fees but the american dream turned sour very quickly when my son last night down town was a globe all over him i don't see how i got an iraq. and i'm going to say it god that i'm running. shall bring home again my name and i got it i'm like ok i want. my new condo my mic on his i was up that dog uptown man and i can give you one you wouldn't know they're going to know what use of songs on the meaning wrong i'm moving on i'm a whole lot a lot of them entirely. let me. now many of

those i wish i. could have. gone behind and go about. this is the man who owned and operated global horizons incorporates an israeli businessman called mordechai moxie. mr laurean is extensive business dealings in the united states brought in 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 the us 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 that those are 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 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 that's right. sonnets was one of those who escaped. and one day. i might do you think hail but i'm not a. whole now and i now think. why it is. what i want and how and when i can what. i'm going to. get in. but escaping from slavery has not made him free. there landing on. so many salary me on it i did mine.

and then by. oh man the day you. don't die i need a lot of them. and what. i might die handlers had done any. more. in september two thousand and ten the f.b.i. and justice department charged mordechai orian and his key lieutenants and 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 tiny 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 to like this case of human trafficking in u.s. history because of this hearing that pair 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 making these human trafficking americanus but you can so human trafficking about anything in fact if you if that's the philosophy of human trafficking so ever these are much african going on

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 and it 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 happened for every country around award 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 purposely 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 and 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 really go i don't i think are five to seven 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. about what. about what did. you have. parallel. to your. to have. said what do you mean you won't go. subclinical mean what 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 see. it. yeah. i. think.

the to choose violence that psychology. from the very beginning until the very end the trade in human flesh is big business. and wealthy western nations are implicated how can a girl. know her way to know how trenton out there must be an organized crime behind the sex slaves episode two years of slavery a twenty first century evil on al-jazeera one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know that it shouldn't be but it is but to be there because you have a lot of people that are deployed their own political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to do the work in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. unpack it for us what you hear and what we're seeing whether online horrendous

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