these children share a common past have been confined to slavery denied a childhood born education. for the next month they'll travel 5000 kilometers spreading their message across northern india and into the pull warning other children of the dangers of trafficking. in each place they visit the locals look on bewildered but the message seems to be getting through. the kids are being taken to different countries and different places girls especially that's what the protest is trying to say but probably they attract kids with money and promise a good life. as a convoy makes its way northward through some of the poorest regions of india it's easy to see why parents are willing to believe the promises of the traffickers. although much of the trafficking occurs within the country children are routinely taken across india's borders for the traffickers it's

a remarkably easy journey for many of the boys and girls in their cat. is just the beginning of the night now. by now the marches of reach the border with the pull while there are some checkpoints the vast swathes of the area remain unmanned cross border smuggling is rampant. so here we are in no man's land that's the main crossing point between india and the pole just a couple 100 yards away here. over on this side of the road behind me here in the pool with the mountains there in the background this road you can see stretching all the way down here that's also the border as you can see it's absolutely nobody there to guard it and if you come to their thought of the road behind us here. clearly with the slight his level of sophistication you could move anything you wanted to across the border without being stopped weapons drugs and of course the

most precious commodity of all people. at the checkpoint the scale of the police's task is evident there's a steady stream of traffic the bus is a crowded it's impossible to detect a traffic child in the tangle of bodies. in even the smallest nepali village people are preoccupied with finding work abroad for their children. the area near the village of bahrain is a hotbed of maoist activity in recent years they've been riots bombings and executions. door vs husband was a maoist who was killed by the police she's been left a widow with 3 young children to bring up and her face is a picture of bitterness she's desperate to get the children out of the country. i

just want them to go away from here here there's nothing no money everything is finished for us. the government here gives us nothing there's no help from anyone to take care of my family. i don't know how it works or who goes where or how how do i know anything about the outside world i hear they all go to saudi or malaysia i don't know how they go there i've never stepped outside this village i just want to do something which will make my kids and my family live a better life. what keil is the villages local success story he's done well for himself and has clearly made some money he has a job in the gulf working in the gold markets and says he can find jobs for the children of the village. we can help these people because when they are grown up enough big and send them out of vogue there are many agents here

a lot of people in the girl who can organize visas for you and some can give an edge to tolls and appease some time it goes up to $100000.00 and then they can be sent abroad. would never call himself a trafficker and he clearly wants the best for his village but to outsiders he would be seen as a man who's willing to find work under-age children. to further the children are taken and the more often they change hands the more difficult they are to trace and the easier it is to exploit them. close to them the pollie border is a shelter for boys rescued from forced labor. they'd all run away from home and for

some being sold was a relief many of their employers would treat them better than their own parents. are used to beat me over not. doing game 3 games. that. we have 3 was as a result eldest in your. state the local train station there the used to be near everyday lives. 10 years old he has a big smile but his eyes are full of sadness like many of the other children on the march rakesh was rescued in a raid conducted by. on the police. i used to graze cattle in my village then came along and give me streets he promised me more and took me to the next town tricked me and took me to northern

india. and i was given to another agent 35000 rupees for me from. me for him to punjab and someone else. that family follows to food the pollution collects god doesn't clean their houses everything back to big stones and breaks the construction i never got any money in return the edge into the money. while traffic boys are usually put to work as manual labor as girls as domestic health has an altogether more sinister element to trafficking. in this brothel in the indian capital men queue up the way that. some of the girls have chosen to be here but there are many bangladeshi girls have been forced into prostitution by traffickers into a life of degradation and exploitation and i don't mean you know i don't think that

i. mean when the women of. the shelter in dhaka the capital of bangladesh is home to girls who are victims of sex trafficking. when holes nairo was 13 her mother sold her into what she thought was a job in a steel company but the traffickers had plans to sell her on to a brothel in kolkata. but what i've seen. my mother is a bad woman she listens to other people and sold me off to listening to other people we were poor my mother told me she'd a range job for me as a domestic helper. but they said if you don't do sex work will never be able to return home again to see your brother and sister. this girl is so ashamed of her past she doesn't want to be seen she thought she was going for a job as a waitress in singapore but she was locked in the shipping container and forced to

serve as migrant workers. i didn't think about running away but i was scared the benefit he would kill me if i tried. the traffickers told her she could earn her freedom by having sex. with $240.00 men. she managed to escape all to sleeping with hall for that number. thank you. thank you to. the children on the march of made friends easily the evenings are a time for fun a chance for the children to be at ease and to be young thanks thanks thanks in the safety and care of this guardian they display a newfound confidence. after 4 weeks on the road and having covered

a distance of more than 5000 kilometers as the march comes to an end in the capital delhi. the marchers will present a petition demanding a change in the law. leading the procession a recognition deadly. event on a pile and india. kids from other countries and that give us an opportunity to learn and not know we have reason to go ahead and to study and become something and i. think kids turn one country to another a chap and. they make them back the government should think about it and they should be learning again to protect. the man behind the march will keep dreaming of a day when indian children have the same rights as children around the world.

they wanted to fly and. that was children for sale well following that firm tell us that the out these work on behalf of india's exploited children was recognised by the award in 2014 of the nobel peace prize and i'm so pleased to say that we've got them with us from new delhi mr southie r.t. thank you so much for your time today good to see you we saw the extraordinary work that you were doing a decade ago what has changed since then have things improved at all definitely a significant improvement in. consciousness off. policies and practices india has that defy 2 most

important aiello conventions one on the was on such a labored and another one on the age of employment our children i'd like to talk about you for a moment the simple fact is you want to nobel peace prize and i want to know just on a personal level 1st of all how how did that feel did that feel like just wow people are really taking notice of what i'm doing. well it was also a surprise for me and the surprise for the whole country it came as it. is surprising news to everyone the noble peace prize has never been given to this cause or any person who is working on this cause so that is significant and it has brought a tremendous amount of venice in the society not only in india but globally and i use that opportunity to push my agenda with the sustainable development goals and i knew that there was no mention of child labor slieve we. forced labor 'd in the

millennium development. and we were raising this issue that you cannot achieve many of these goals without. enough charlie ward and snavely like practices so in the sustainable development goals we this used to i did this is a personally with a number of presidents and prime ministers and un agencies herrick's including the secretary general of united nations and they cannot say no to it maybe because of this noble tag and they were convinced that yes we have to introduce it now we have a very clear agent of indication of child labor in all its forms by 2025 while instigate children child marriages child trafficking and by titian our children and the farm has to do and so then what next for you and for your campaign globally we know that. that has been and i don't

need. a larger number of children being involved. in for no graphic material production that has grown as $8000000000.00 industry there was last year's report and the only lion child sexual abuse and all of the forms of abuses child trafficking. you. as of children for substance abuse is. just enough children is growing what i'm trying now and working very intensely with the number of governments globally including. the mother of qatar. a longer conversation with her and she has supported my idea in addition to pull france's or angela merkel and many more prime ministers and presidents to introduce such a legally binding un convention to stop the online child trafficking and child sexual

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a new leader. the rebels say thousands of saudi backed fighters have surrendered during a military campaign in a disputed border province. hong kong's police fired tear gas and water cannon and thousands turned up to mark the 5th anniversary of the pro-democracy umbrella movement. we understand the risk you know is there at present every time that we. are death wish base jumpers to take a leap of faith from one of malaysia's best known landmarks. a series of attacks communication failures and delays but despite these challenges off guns came out to vote in the 4th presidential election since the taliban's

downfall the armed group did carry out their threat to disrupt the vote there were nearly 70 attacks in several parts of the country which go to 5 people including a police officer hundreds of others were injured now several other issues had been reported the independent election commission lost contact with hundreds of polling stations and there were long delays due to problems with biometric devices. voters could choose from 14 candidates all those likely to come down to 2 men incumbent president a shotgun e. and the chief executive abdullah abdullah the turnout was low but afghan officials prayed those who braved the odds and cast their ballots the taliban who came out against it and called it a foreign process and in. and out it the legitimacy and the shadow put shadow on the legitimacy of the elections people still came out to risk their lives it doesn't matter how many people came out what ever the number they risked

their lives to. to show that they want to be in control of their own future and have. be able to determine their next president. and our correspondent ernie burton send this report from kabul. a city in lockdown the streets of kabul almost deserted on election day because polling stations open the biggest and tightest security operation ever in the capital was under way the taliban had warned people not to vote and it didn't take long before the group carried out its threats. encounters there were attacks around the city aimed at disrupting voting roads were blocked and lines of communication cut a mortar round was fired into the grounds of the school used for polling hospital confirm civilians had been killed and a number were injured elsewhere the taliban launch more attacks to north of kabul

one in helmand and one in one the hard province no casualties were reported but a number of people were injured in a blast at a kandahar polling station it didn't deter some others from voting a lot of despite all the hardships and violence we haven't lost hope we have to vote and think about future generations this is afghanistan's 4th presidential election the government officials maintain the use of advanced technology and highly trained personnel are making these the freest elections to date but there were reports of some polling stations failing to open and voters complaining that they hadn't been registered i came here to choose a person who can help the poor of this country but they say i'm not registered to vote it's not right at the last presidential election 5 years ago there were queues of people waiting to vote at this polling station in central kabul on saturday it was a trickle and voting had to be extended 70 slow we'll have to see. has extended for couple of hours we hope that people. come out and make the choice but as well as in

security people have also become disillusioned with politics in afghanistan and the broken promises in failure to tackle corruption poverty unemployment and security international aid agencies say the situation. today is worse than 5 years ago though not everyone agrees there is improvements being made we cannot deny that but there are some traits in or taliban decrees increase their attacks you know so there are other factors that affect it there are so many other factors that affect it more and bigger taliban attacks had been expected perhaps an indicator the group may be keeping its hardline element of peace while at the same time pushing a diplomatic strategy for peace talks with the u.s. they were abruptly canceled by president trump this month election results will be announced on november the 7th but it's not just important who wins but whether the other candidates and all the other groups accept them and agree to work with them

and in the fractured world of afghan politics that hasn't always been easy but in 2014 it only happened because of the strong arm tactics of the united states attorney berkeley al jazeera kabul into saturday meza lecture at more i university in kabul am a political analyst and he says the security forces faced a big challenge securing the polling stations. today was a different day the that the way taliban were warning the afghan people that they have not get out of their homes them if they have to be attacked by a symmetric security threats i think for 2 reason that has not happened number one i think the crits must go to the afghan security forces big because they have been able to satisfy control who are deep pool in station that's why a lot of security incident has not have happened or do taliban has not been so much crucial in their taxes they have been so much hard in the did it tricks to warn the

afghan people so yeah of course there has been a number of attacks but that has not been a say we just as we were expecting so hopefully that was something that we experience today well i'm sure the 2014 violent history may be repeated very much optimistic that something will happen. within countries. in recent election has been also an experience that we can consider why and we are expecting that itself from these election these 2 candidates has been the quite strong candidate they have been in contention the number for the other 12 candidate has not been only to win the election there has been only. for making a political deal so doctor up the law of the line dr ghani. people who are fighting it against each other. well the vote in afghanistan came just weeks after talks between the united states and the taliban fell apart the u.s.

has now spent 18 years in afghanistan its longest ever involvement in a foreign war ellen fisher takes a look at what might lie ahead for the u.s. afghan relations. 18 years more than $4000.00 american deaths and $800000000000.00 spent donald trump wants to significantly reduce the american military footprint in afghanistan there are $14000.00 troops there no but the threat from the taliban remains significant one former u.s. ambassador to kabul says the u.s. is still there because each president looks for a quick way out by my count we have had 9 changes of policy in the 18 years we've been in afghanistan we don't convey consistency to anyone when we rethink our policy every 2 years so i have a problem with that the trumpet ministration but there was trouble palmer 5 changes of policy in the obama administration come afghan president ashraf ghani campaign 5

years ago on the idea of peace talks with the taliban but he was sidelined as the group met negotiators in qatar a deal was close but in the week of the anniversary of the 911 attacks in the us donald trump called an end to the talks they're dead they're dead 1st i'm concerned that they thought that there to kill people in order to put themselves in a little better to go share that vision this administration has threatened to withhold $100000000.00 in funding to afghanistan alleging government corruption and mismanagement in the run up to important presidential elections that has been seen by some as an implicit criticism of the cum president danny but not an endorsement of his main challenger abdullah abdullah one afghan expert says to the u.s. the process may be more important than the result for the travel ministration they are simply looking for a key. wins the election and is free if and fair a possible way as possible they want to have

a president that is seen with credibility and legitimacy by the afghan people it's very unlikely that's going to happen with donald trump insisting he has no intentions of restarting the peace talks in afghanistan and a new initiative will have to come from whoever wins the presidential election there and that means for the time being the war continues and so does the cost in money and lives alan fischer al jazeera washington. ok moving to some other news now in yemen to the rebels say thousands of saudi backed fighters have surrendered along with the weapons and military vehicles during a months long military campaign there were these have been targeting the southern region of not drawn a spokesman says they've also captured several saudi army officers the saudi u.a.e. coalition and yemen has been fighting with these for more than 4 years. well the log thousands of really forces have been captured as prisoners others from among the prisoners is a large number of high ranking officers and soldiers of saudi citizenship who've

been seriously 2 hours from the lucero operation to be destroyed imprisoned and captured. has the latest from sana. the host the spokesperson said that the they will reveal tomorrow afternoon on the the all the details about this operation that they will show to the to the media also the followers of those who have been arrested in their thousands also that we will show some of the operations that would be being carried out by the whole of these inside saudi territories and specially in iran they have been carrying all these operations for over nearly 5 months they have been trying to support ses on these brigades of that have been. captured by the whole of these. just within the 72 hours they have for the tightened their sage on the.

brigades and to these around to the the fighters these according to the military spokesperson despite of the saudi and intensive air strikes on these positions of the whole it is also some of the. war of presidents have been also killed in the saudi attacks along with the whole of the fighters in these operations. now bill curry is a former united states diplomat and deputy chief of message mission to yemen and he says they were these are capturing enemy forces so they can use them for leverage they is are strong on the ground and they have all. of them in mind in november well some of these 1st against them they went inside saudi borders near the area and they capture 100.