and another good reminder that the president made the right decision to get out of . the u.s. could really impose sanctions on iran as early as next week to ensure it doesn't develop nuclear weapons it follows america's withdrawal from the landmark deal that limited iran's nuclear capabilities. going prime minister najib razak has just given a press conference saying his party will accept the will of the people after he lost the general election for the first time since independence an opposition alliance is likely to form the next government a remarkable comeback for a ninety two year old former prime minister mahathir mohamad who won the election. had become embroiled in a corruption scandal three americans freed from prison in north korea have entered u.s. airspace and they due to touch down in maryland in the next few hours earlier their plane landed in alaska for refueling president donald trump took to twitter to say he looks forward to greeting the hostages. indonesian police say a hostage crisis at a high security jail in the capital jakarta has ended after nearly all the persons

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for 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 were forcibly 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 alive it is thriving and it is bigger than ever.

she has pushed cause. to quit good let's focus the. pressure put on the. this is the story of a trade in human flesh a global trafficking industry the bruins the lives of millions of young women every day of every year. around the world our best estimate is twenty seven million slaves globally six or eight percent of us sex trafficking. but it's also the story of two european cities more than a thousand kilometers apart and at opposite ends of the world wide chain of sex slavery. today the trail of trafficked women most often ends in the rich and liberal countries of western europe but it begins in the poor

and underdeveloped former soviet bloc nations and one country in particular the republic of moldova. kisha now is the capital of moldova the poorest country in europe where many young moldovans are often forced to go abroad in order just to survive and is this desperation which has meant that so many young mold of and women are often jute into the sex trafficking industry. and children learned it will come out of a charity i'm still it's not ideal engineer. but they'll say look into the console my league. chillum what if it is what i deserve. for. a lawyer who has represented more than seven hundred victims of sex trafficking the story starts and ends with poverty ate a lot them yesterday also. or for that show there's the year war. thoughts of

what's the latest trend but also a lot of good as they could get jammed which is how many of you decide. that's a lot of molecules that are in about this are full of. outside the reality of that. moldova is still a country largely reliant on subsistence farming. we're heading for the small southern town of tal shame. we're going to meet a young woman who escaped from international sex slavery just a few weeks ago. and some. don't just. want to bring it. here.

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satellites with those shots because doc nobody will discuss the nuclear rain movie is that the scottish. one was sort of the dog in the billions constructs. keeping. because the. young shipped a bushie. the first he took them politically answers. marty one product might explode just dust and could difficult gives up a shop or to be detected no doubt that they set him by. the arena is one of the lucky if it. is one of the luckier victims of international sex slavery is now receiving intensive counseling for help from a team of specialists volunteers but many thousands like you get no help at all.

in a small office in kids you know volunteers from los stronger and international mt trafficking in geo run a hotline for women tricked like the arena into sexual slavery abroad. we have around twenty eight cases that we are working on we receive calls mostly from politicians they might say my daughter told me just today. and she was crying and she asked me to help her so this is what we. do it on a daily basis if from the most common ploy used by moldovan traffickers is the place a bogus job adverts in the local newspaper. the strongest team ahmed says each edition . this is a very interesting proposals for younger woman work for ford then seeing in the dip ben. is very suspicious because they

give home to the girl the brady and the so. two thousand dollars there. to uncover how the scam works one of our undercover team responded to one of these outfits. one will go. to far to. the mint. as the mayor that is the deal of the law. the ask city at college is the more the law should go that the more the other thought that issue and the fact that have you called the public as if it were the budget is if it all four of them want most the advertiser who calls herself all go quickly off as our undercover investigator a job interview. been. but instead of

meeting in an office during business hours she wants to meet on a street corner at nine o'clock at night. this would make the process vicious if you are too sick employment to moldova you will probably never meet with future employers or even the agency that is interested in eating plant you live on meat on the street. olga takes our undercover investigator to a noisy bar very quickly she begins her sales pitch and did. the thing. that. i did. and then. i. was and.

i i. i i i. i i i i i i. and i revenko has seen this many times and seen exactly what happens to those who fall for traffickers page. when. the traffickers actually was found the third psychology and emotions from the very beginning until the very end their claim was that. they used their own fears or hopes to change the person. moldovan recruiters typically sell them first to local brussels where they are first forced into sex slavery then trafficked abroad. we sent another undercover

journalist into two of these clubs to uncover the next stage in the trail. it was quickly introduced to sex traffickers. that this man boasted he could provide up to fifty women. the two month period and said he was already working with brothel owners throughout europe. some. tours. through the school. and. for. the next day undercover journalist was introduced to a second trafficker in a park in the center of teaching or. anything if i can if i see.

you. and then i will find. he was happy to explain how he would ship his cargo of sex slaves into the european union fine neighboring countries. to get these out there you can tell. me don't. buy your mass so my bloodline. these two pimps a small players in the sex trafficking industry. to track down one of the kingpins we have come to a shabby prison in the remote news of moldova. yet when you come to the hold of the new movie that is the normal menu. for nearly ten years alexander cavani known as shallow trafficked sex slaves out of moldova and across europe from his clubs in case you know. you love a good thinking machine and thought your chin little see she.

was going to defeat me because i just fell off. in italian always thought that oedipal they come up on you hope they get you in story so what the night is a shortage of what the brain is that he became in a silent chill at that in this discipline now yet all sang songs are not there so for them they get blindsided helpless they kill. yet all. i mean inside the shelters right here but again we're live here it all gets murkier subsoil chile coverly was convicted of sex trafficking in two thousand and seven but he still protests his innocence birgitte nyborg of that of absoluteness. the new model who can your thought and might be more of noble birth than but his nerves are not the booze for gas guzzling but he did the glee younger but he didn't give all of the lip and i think the whole give a fuck instead he says his sex slaves voluntarily prostituted themselves after

finishing work in his clubs you were really looking for months it. was all worked up with the. name of your dealer at the legionaries. your own business who worked on collies case remembers those women differently. or the mare that i declared simple to have a little yet just a cold the possibility that it's a sin which can do all we can to give your soichi the vault it at that all it should be a good ball. because some more detail we can't let you get back of course a lot yet that pick up the ideal why would she do thus why would she have done that if she wasn't involved in any of the things that you say your business was and also global if you go around me i'm delia. would get a bill sure. but don't listen because ultimately because any such a beautiful word should use the developers then as a group they knew what was going on and will do so it was

a limited sort of corba should but i lose a little really. because also because i me it's a downer but it is also a bit would. show luke of ali was sentenced to nineteen years in prison but his prosecution was a rare success in moldova's fights against sex trafficking. thirty forty more i think it. was that. the media. mulled over has neither the resources nor the infrastructure to stop the trafficking of its women into sex slavery and to those who tried to protect them the responsibility for policing the trade the responsibility for policing the trade lies elsewhere. if a problem unleashed immobility a problem a long isn't a start but if anything a problem must watch it that's. what a lot see explored as a fitting it. in make a song. like

a cherished post. of wings a silent lot of us and its enemy and if i mean a typical model and it's out of. less than a day's drive away one country and one city above will positively celebrate the economics of dimanche for postage in two thousand the dutch government took the radical step of legalizing prostitution. as a means to prevent women being trafficked and forced into the sex industry. today there are more than one thousand two hundred prostitution businesses traval m. m saddam alone has three hundred brothels. all and believes that it has the best system of dealing with the worst excesses of sexual slavery and nowhere sums it up more than the city of amsterdam but look behind the windows and does that

proposition really hold up to scrutiny. the dutch legislators have not lost their mind to gay and prostitution policy but there is a vision that if you tried to compare old van gelder heads amsterdam police's and to traffic police or that one of the positive advantages of our policy is that for instance prostitute has no fear for the police it's a legal profession if you follow the rules the police won't bother you and i understand that we only see the tip of the iceberg but at least it's a percentage of the branch which we can't control they rent but with only seven detectives out of a city police force of six thousand offices were just how much does harold van gelder actually see let alone control now. yes is it possible to say the percentage of women in the sex industry here and i'm sister who have been trafficked now it's not possible it's. not even an estimation no i don't i can't give you that

because at least we don't even know how much how much to tell working in amsterdam because we are not registration the prostitutes why should the police refuse straight them because we don't read straight all the butchers or the bakers you nancy them. get just a few miles across the city pollens national trafficking reporting they're going to ization has a very clear idea of the numbers of women forced into the countries legalize prostitution industry. if you look at the figures from last year we had about a thousand registered victims of human trafficking about eighty percent is sex industry and there's little doubt why so many tough team victims and sex slaves in holland is famous for its red light district there's a mob for young girls into prostitution and so i think traffickers make

use of our system. legalize prostitution to bring them in all of these to the past to get them into. prostitution holland six hundred and sixty million euros every year four million tourists flock to amsterdam most to steroids and often times the mines the prostitutes working in it's me only windows and i have a lot of money so here are my trial role for women families together if we haven't done here bush asked me and the victim human trafficking tosha has worked for sixteen years with the women has been working in the windows of amsterdam's red light districts if you want to you even think and you want to believe there are a lot. the things what they are doing you know. the story behind them is so different that what you see each street she says is organized by nationality.

there are certain streets where you have the south america transsexuals then there's another street where the majority are hungary into this and then here you have the spanish speaking i guess how have things changed in the sex industry in all of from say fifteen twenty years ago to now. because of the european union whenever we open up in the nine months for a counterstrike romania bulgaria hungary i mean we see this whole change at the moment the majority of the woman i say yes we got the girls from albania i mean how can a girl from albania out of a village i don't know where from no way to know where to really know how to run to win the must be an organized crime gang this is the true face of holland's experiments in legalized prostitution and this is the face of the man through traffic to here. it will show she worked as he said slowly. over

a two year period shut down by the leader of a turkish morgan ised crime gun traffic to move them one hundred thirty women mostly from eastern europe to holland's red light districts. each woman was turn to with his gangs brand each was forced to service twenty clients and. they behaved in a very brutal way because we have seen cases of forced abortion issue cases of forced to use with the names of the pimps on the girls some girls beaten up and too hard to bruce just put in cold water and beaten up in a terrible way to die. prosecutes is the brown case was a warning that the dutch experiments in legalizing prostitution had worsened not solved the problem of international sex slavery we thought in two thousand the more

liberal for you to prostitution. stand outs trafficking that proved to be wrong sixty to seventy percent of the women. in this case were being forced to work and legalize prostitution seems it is modern slavery jeff being human being is a kind of modern slavery. five thousand miles away in america the man who once led the global fight against slavery has long argued that holland is the cause of not the solution to international sex trafficking. think all it's happened is the dutch government has become the super penpal for four years john miller was the u.s. state department's anti slavery worldwide ambassador today he sees the history of slavery repeating itself. believe that they're being very sophisticated

regulating the interesting thing is this is the exact same approach they took back in the seventeenth century. to boast about how they had the healthiest slave ships they had the best ventilation they had the best ration they had the best mattresses for the slaves they provided doctors. but slavery went on and all their talk about regulation was an excuse to avoid abolition. every year the u.s. government publishes a report which judges every country in the world on its efforts to stamp out slavery the trafficking in persons or tip report ranks countries that do the most as tier one. the state department has always given tier one status to holland despite the vehement opposition of john miller i have visited the red light

district i've seen the young men with the leather jackets standing outside those windows counting who goes in making sure they get all the profits all i can say is i didn't think according to our law that they were to or why. giving such favored status to rich western countries which fuel demand for sex slaves angers impoverished source countries like moldova least because it slowly ranking has put it in danger of economic sanctions from washington. and very often we see that economically strong countries with good of both these are exactly the countries where citizens are exploited this is the countries that failed to show protection and these other countries that imposed those double standards. the fates of the two convicted sex traffickers highlights those double standards. alexander

will spend the next nineteen years locked in a mold or even prison. is back home in turkey and free the dutch government allowed him out of jail for one day. and never return. until the rich western countries address the demand for prostitution rather than profit from it there will always be men like and. and there will always be sex slaves behind these windows. in the next episode of slavery a twenty first century evil entire families of slaves trapped in the brick kilns of parker stone and the slave moscow who keeps them back.

regie omar investigates the brick kiln slaves in pakistan some of the most shocking and appalling working conditions anywhere in south asia up to one million trapped but it does not norm for discovery one hundred virtually no one speaks for them they suffer but they suffer in silence with no hope of escape what do you say to those allegations that working conditions in the industry is equivalent to modern slavery slavery a twenty first century evil continues with bonded slaves announces there. with bureaus spawning six continents across the globe. to. al-jazeera has correspondents live in green the stories they tell. us about. the are

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