in the arms of law of course. u.s. president donald trump says his lawyer rudy giuliani will get his facts straight over comments made about adult film star stormy daniels and a t.v. interview giuliani revealed trump knew about payments made to daniels after an alleged affair in two thousand and six trump previously denied any knowledge of the hush money at least six people have drowned and eleven more are missing off to extreme flooding in kenya aid groups are warning that the floods could spread cholera and malaria the severe rains which triggered the floods follows several seasons of drought in the country a volcanic eruption in hawaii as for seven hundred people to be evacuated from their homes lava flows are threatening residential areas close to kill away at one of the most active volcanoes in the world after erupted on thursday afternoon the governor has declared a state of emergency. turkey's main opposition parties announcement on injuries its presidential candidate thousands of people attended the rally in and co whether republican people's party announced in jest as a candidate. and about

a hundred migrants are being detained in a government run center in libya without sufficient food and water according to the charity doctors without borders some of the migrants have been held at the center is a wire about one hundred kilometers west of tripoli for more than five months now well those are the top stories much more on everything coming up in about twenty five minutes and we're going to have a full bulletin of news for you so do stay with us i'll be back a little bit later on i for now. of 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 were 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 tore itself a pause to outlaw 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 slaves measure. conservatively but i think also to be fair the united states is one of the governments that has been on 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 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. some high power. in the remote's northern provinces of thailand life has continued unchanged for centuries. close knit families eke out a subsistence living by working on system 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. oh a. young american woman going to go back where they manufacture. getting that kind of kenyan. families in a lump on an less than one thousand dollars a year. the recruiters told them that in america they would fifty thousand dollars in. there was just one. they had to pay illegally high registration fees to the recluses up fronts 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 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 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 other planes which is where loon farms is is located. about was. a pow. and i study in my heart i know that these all the mass that's what i want to know always blow up. in my diet and the next batch of gentlewomen like all the high school my tackle the model that's what 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 to dry. they were given the amount of work 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 homes remain. high with his from themselves. there's even if. you say. that but. the one. thing that happened. in december two thousand and nine the owners of balloon 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 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. 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 me. 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 british time man 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 at least for over a thousand typhon 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. and chicken farms you name it. villages in thailand as aloof. and does recruit just the same. registration. there is a set cap on how much you're supposed to pay for work abroad so in this case

for farm work in the us the workers should not be paying more than sixty thousand. that is. current. but in fact would have ended up happening the workers were taught that they had to pay nine hundred thousand. having to mortgage their lands and their homes. and they had to. take money from sharks borrow money to massive debt and and pay high interest. rates. two thousand and. two only.

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 and my last night down town was i go ball i don't see how i got a raw. and i'm going to say it. 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 don't accept it dog uptown man and i can give you one you only know they're going to run what is that song called the meaning wrong i'm moving on i'm a whole lot a lot of been tired. many of. my neighbors. now many doors 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. 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 thai 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. 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 do you get. what i want and how and when i can buy out what. i'm going to. get in. but escaping from slavery has not made him free. there landing on. so many salary me if i sign it i did it with my. tongue and by. my. oh

man the day you. don't i need a lot of them who and what. i 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 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 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 this here 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 american to but you can so you much i mean 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 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 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 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 really go i don't have. to say 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 to do. parallel to you're going. to go on. to have. some. 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. the to choose policy at psychology in motion 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 from a man know her way to amazon know how to handle it and now i must be an organized crime magnets sex slaves episode two of slavery a twenty first century evil on al-jazeera. show it to five. plus a tech. stocks site sees itself be a right over the top. of this.

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