tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera November 1, 2019 9:00pm-10:01pm +03
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we tracked down one smuggler to this large gated house. heard that the law. that the law that. more research is posed as a couple hoping to live in britain. yes that's a really large. room are. going to look. right at home from. under. the smuggler makes it sound easy but the journey is full with danger and it costs a lot of money. that. i. never. yes yes. there are.
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a job that. although we found no evidence of slavery we discovered someone had been smuggled from vietnam. the shop owner sister had just been brought in illegally. to find a leg of a journey from france to the lorry was the hottest. on record and. the. funny stories i heard was how many days after our high on. bomber and leon let me know that i am leaving him to. take on that. kind of particular. young man and one of the older half of. the nail barona describes the roots used by his sister. in law the part that i don't tell you the company that. i was found not by by the people in iran ok
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how many of you have. enough. people here that he got. my. son back. but i don't you. know that and i. smuggled women may be free to. way but without legal status or knowledge of english they're often tied to their employers. smuggled vietnamese men often end up in a different trade. can make contact online with a man who'd become a gardener at a cannabis farm. he's kept inside an already looking terraced house on a suburban st. bernard
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. the man tending these kind of his plants hardly ever leaves the house there's no furniture just rows of plants he breathes in fumes from chemical fertilisers snatches a few hours sleep on an old mattress and lives in fear of his boss the police. who want to steal the drugs. he. wanted. a lot more and. more.
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than one. like others toiling in britain's cannabis houses he believes he will earn a lot of money but so far it's a distant promise. research a keeps in contact with the gardner later we'll see her enter the count of his house to meet him. the scale of bonded labor in britain led to a new law the modern slavery act introduced in 2015. it defined modern slavery not in terms of shackles and chains but forced labor force
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criminality and any servitude obtained with threats deception or violence. the government also appointed an anti slavery commissioner kevin hyland recently returned from vietnam he went to the area where we met our people smuggler. there was a network operator. in that region who are exploiting people who start off as being smuggled then as they knew that turns into a case of trafficking called that becomes a debt and then they get moved in situation for example kind of this. even. situation where there are exploited and being forced to work in some very dangerous situation. the government estimates that there are around $13000.00 more than slaves in britain
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with the largest numbers from romania albania nigeria vietnam and from britain itself. the assessment that we did in 2014 gave us 97 different countries the victims came from that gives you a sense of that scale 97 different countries have been identified. there's no doubt that the scale of modern slavery in the u.k. is in your. we're just saying you might even say just the tip of the iceberg. and reed is the anti trafficking director at the salvation army since 2011 the charities run government funded safe houses for victims of modern slavery. in the 1st year there was $380.00 but just in the last 6 months we've seen over a 1000 victims come into the service a total of over $4000.00 people been referred to the salvation army for support.
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ya know to get out of date as the global market for human cargo increased prostitution was the 1st industry to be exploited by modern slave traders. stephan didn't plan to be a pimp he wanted to be a rapper. part of help with groucho on a long trip to sort of along for most of the rest of on board of a part of. one day he was offered the chance to exploit his dances with opera much of them were more of a typical form a more worthwhile group group of more than one box was your boardroom block to follow through with. so boresome reporters been calling to come to the bar to. water for an oscar and. that was the start of 4 years as a pin exploiting young women in cities all over europe.
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anna comes from a poor family in western romania she was just 16 when she was forced to be a prostitute. i feel terrible when i think about when i was 1st. to drink and take drugs with. it began when the remaining 8 months. he said it was for a holiday but then he ordered to sell sex. she tried to refuse. he became very angry and he took me. to beat me.
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it was the beginning of 11 years as a sex slave locked in dingy apartments and cheap hotel rooms. she was controlled by her ex-boyfriend his brother and also by a woman she refers to only as. i wasn't paid any money because of badly used to keep. their thought i was their slave making money for them making them happy. slavery is at its heart it's the buying and selling of a human being the traffickers are often very ruthless no holds barred anything goes. stephanie eventually spent 2 years in prison for a.t.m.
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fraud and now has a legitimate job in london. he's agreed to take his interest form a world exposing the men and women who drag others into sexual slavery. he meets a romanian paint called robert. for. free . robert talks business with steffan in his car a car he didn't even have to buy. for. just a. little. he runs a handful of prostitutes from eastern europe. they work all night. in the good. 6 6 6 fun you know. they don't want the old one done oh.
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god. controls their lives but says he really needs to use physical violence. or work through this risky work to cause the swarthy predator stipulating out my. mind for book. those who can. really. be universally fucking going to sleep through see. what regional sports or i'll. be in the printer to disagree with oh man costco. think where the parks are very quickly from a home. in addition so some felons we also say in direct threats if you don't do as well i tell you something either your family
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at home will be targeted we know where your children are we know where your mother lives and if you don't do what we tell you then they'll be real trouble. and as controlled as subjected her to both mental and physical abuse for years they trafficked are all over europe to austria spain and then prison. the decision by it's my god they have brought such a guys to me to sleep with them then they tied me to the bed then the guys did their job my madam was very happy she was telling me that this is how i like it. i was telling her that now i don't like it. police rescued from a hotel in west london in march 24th. but it was not the end. she returned to romania controllers tracked her down bundled her into
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a call. back to england. i wanted to escape from there and breakdowns a door. they couldn't find the key. i was very scared. they turned over the light and told me to do was it clients want it because if i didn't i don't deserve even to eat. they give me cold what are they tortured me. they beat me up was a belt and said. i . was taken to leeds in the north of england locked in
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a hotel room and forced once again to be a prostitute. and thinking it was not worth being controlled by them i knew more it was better to take my own life. to a form of modern slavery that's growing faster than prostitution we reveal how big business in britain could be profiting from modern slavery. is happening all around us it's in our communities people tents. to perceive it as being sexual exploitation but actually modern slavery take song many forms through 4 years ago we would have told to that sex trafficking is the major area of trafficking we now know that trafficking for labor is about 5050 with trafficking for sex.
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the multitudes the magnet for tourists from around the globe but behind the picturesque landscape young men to bond with on groups in syria when i went east investigates on al-jazeera. a lot of the problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera after weeks of protests and roadblocks across lebanon was schools and banks have reopened their doors a customers angry about limits imposed on how much money they can withdraw every day and some banks have imposed restrictions on money being sent abroad meanwhile protest is continue their calls for the entire government to resign and other news
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turkish and russian ship troops have started joint patrols and not just in syria's so-called safe zone it follows a deal to remove kurdish y p g fighters to a distance of 30 kilometers south of the border. has moved from shanower from near the turkish syrian border that's just a few days ago in some areas like till tomorrow and also on the outskirts of us that i there will have the clashes between the syrian opposition fighters they said they are the syrian army and the all the other hand no turkey although it's had reassurances from russia that 34000 fighters from the white b.g. or retreated from the safe zone still in need all the ground to verify on its own that that has indeed happened and this explains why this is going to be a critical moment for the 2 countries. now thousands of people who say they're fed up with pakistan's government are demonstrating on the streets of the capital
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a convoy dominated by supporters of a conservative opposition party entered islamabad on thursday demanding prime minister imran khan resign they say can hasn't fulfilled his promise of strengthening the economy. now brags that party leader nigel for raj has promised to help bars johnson when the u.k. election but only if he abandons his withdrawal deal with the e.u. says the deal forces the u.k. to continue following some e.u. rules he's setting to run against the prime minister if the deal isn't dropped with a break that party maintains that a no deal breaks it is the best way to leave the e.u. and the us the impeachment inquiry into president trump is moving to a public phase the house approved resolution paving the way for open hearings in congress and formalize and procedures for the investigation.
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well those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us al-jazeera investigations continues next thank you for watching. our investigation has found that the fastest growing sector of britain's modern slave trade is unskilled labor. in part one or on the cover a search of a context to facebook with a vietnamese man who grows cannabis for a drugs gang. alone isolated and speaking no english he invites her into the cannabis farm.
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there's no furniture in the suburban house just rows of plants growing on the powerful lights. being made me think that i mean what many people don't have that are good. it's not unusual to find that the minute tricity has been tampered with she's highly dangerous you know you're risking your life and then you staying conditions where you are pretty thin so the pollen from the cannabis plants windows are tight top and everything is running as usual and extracts a fine weave you think you know it's everywhere it's a growth of the crop. horrendous conditions. from now till i can think of what. i mean headline oh my god i thought
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down and. down the fish almost like you know if you live here or i'm going to hell that we're. in a. going to. go ok i'll go. after our research that leaves the only other visitor to the house is a man who drops off food and supplies late at night. days later another man comes to collect the drugs harvest. it's a typical set up for vietnamese cannabis god. they are kept in a house with no way of carrying out their looked in their house so sago coal to voting those crops with food brought to them they are not allowed to get out and about and leave those premises. cannabis farms want to face isn't one day
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slavery any k. the. dependent on the labor. of the vulnerable and the dispossessed and the. pollution chandra is a leading lawyer in the field of modern slavery. we showed her the evidence from our investigation. certainly appears to be an indication that the man may be a victim of modern day slavery he has no regularly receiving profit but he's hoping to receive that i think his words were when i have money i'll move to another job say this person may be a victim of human trafficking for enforced criminality. the new slavery law change the way the police treat the vulnerable. one of the good things about the modern slavery act is actually recognizing that they are victims of trafficking as
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opposed to actually be perpetrators of crime kind of us cultivation. illegal testis why don't we know somebody is a victim and not a pet traitor of this crime of cannabis cultivation is whether or not they were the dominant force of the traffickers. sesame from this footage i would hope. that the person who has been filmed would be referred into the national referral mechanism and then they would be able to achieve assistance and protection. if they had been trafficked. for one victim there was a way out. was just 15 when he was forced to work at a kind of his house in person. more can
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i be paid almost one day i saw lots of people outside shouting i just stood at one of the group and when they forced the door open carry me and shouted police i was very happy because the police had arrived to get my hands to the offices to one car at that point i thought i'd been freed i was very happy. but if you go you know and you know that particular. the vulnerable teenager was placed with a foster family but his liberty was short lived. out shopping with his foster mother one day he got lost in the crowds. unable to ask for help in english and with night for him he started to panic. he was approached by a chinese man who seemed friendly. at 1st when they took me
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to their home and he promised to help me find my foster mother but when i got there he looked me inside. after 6 months they made me work cannabis plants. don't work i couldn't chappie so how did that happen. without a bang when they died to me you know tied me up with a rope and hung me up. back that i was chained in a lorry i wasn't allowed to go outside and after i finished work they locked me in a van and took me back to the warehouse. chain me up and made me stay in the. county. he worked up to 20 hours a day with no pay slept in a van and was given just bread and potatoes to eat. and slaved as a child traffic to britain rescued and then enslaved again finally escaped and was
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placed in the care of a charity. i'm still afraid every night thinking of the days when i was beaten and locked in warehouses. the police estimate that there are tens of thousands of commercial kind of these farms all over britain. the gardners inside include many slavery victims who were forced to commit crime and remain hidden from view. britain has also seen a huge rise in the number of exploited people working in plain sight on the high streets of affluent towns and cities. at this car wash prices stuff in just 6 pounds around 10 u.s.
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dollars. but how going to be so cheap. claudio says he knows he came from romania and worked at a car wash for 5 months. he agreed to secretly fill the workers conditions. he starts with their accommodation temporary cabins where up to 6 people sleep in a small room. r.h. . mistrust. both die each. day
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what i'm. going to do with. one of the workers calls a friend in romania. who are very much our buffalo pretty rough bookie and work. or. people may be coming to this country voluntarily they may be thinking that they're coming for a job only to find a job isn't what they thought it was going to be or that they're being kept in absolutely appalling conditions they're not getting the salary that they were promised then there are deductions for travel for accommodation for transit to work and all of that sort of thing so they are going to. the car wash owner is a lazy 35 year old albanian with british citizenship one of the tricks of his trade
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seems to be keeping his work is in debt and taking the travel documents. the workers say he imposes huge fines for minor damage to cause in one case 600 pounds in another 800. or. 3 years in a. new. one. i have to look more than 100 and you've been. down that. was your builders are sure you don't. hope.
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they claim this physical violence as well. as the potential of a. fellow. and reassures her that basically look at her lover. to feel. defeated you have to give. me what the person you call. unlike the slaves of the past no one is physically shackled. to say they're held by psychological chains fear poverty and desperation. leaving is not easy those who risk it will spend what little money they have to escape. claudio he is a worker on the phone he's been told to pay hundreds of pounds for accidentally
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damaging a car. he begs someone to help him get away. with phone calls computer for long periods. of a particular group which was the 1st one of those for. more than a one. point critic. he walks out at 1 am leaving his few belongings behind. if it sounds too good to be true it probably is too good to be true and the streets are not paved with gold and there are some very very nasty people out there who would be looking to exploit to make our life a misery. workers appear to be like any others in canterbury. it's an impression that he encourages.
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when i posed as a local businessman with a fleet of cars that needed cleaning he told me his work as a part time is happy to be there. yes. ok now you're obviously a busy boy all 0. 0000 what about you guys are they very long days you. are the start then you've got the 4. doctors they. thought i did cross the finish the thought i just mixed around to this year so far sure by 6 hours there was no light in the day hours or 5 days away . according to evidence gathered by our on the covers search this is not true the lazy is also keen to boast of his contract with a large car dealership visa contract or. from across the road we do what we do up there for like
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a day. they say i'd already been doing volvo for about 34 years now 4 years ok yes yes we could use so i could elsewhere just recently we doing. that as well. when asked about where the work is live. also for the local. local race. in an attempt to win my business he cuts his prices if you do it. so i had. just one other. thing. this footage appears to show. of force later. i have grave face that these
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workers victims of human trafficking. this is something that needs to be tackled very strongly by swift and stronger enforcement . which is. over. lots. of want to own up to something. to upset about is the lesson. of this or. this in washington. is absolutely necessary for both and to investigate all parts of its supply chain in 10 so he laid out. his key.
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that's cause. we also filmed us a hand car washes working at a nearby kia dealership garridge. last year there was severe him increase in the amount of people who are in forced labor and we realize that a large percentage of these are in the supply chain companies need to start to understand that this is exploitation it is more than day slavery happening in the united kingdom. cloudier stop filming and walked away from the carwash he plans to return to romania. we just hear. you well yeah yeah like. me and. try to
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change. the. course of. see he only been to look at those 2 put it about the general lack of world now. but at a cost knowledge that is a chip. on the thought of him in and. i think could put him pause more than this last. i went back to the car wash to put off findings to the owner of you on a lazy he was just back from a skiing holiday we've been investigating your car wash for some time now and we have clear evidence that your breaching the law if you heard of something called the modern slavery act. ok you've been keeping people doing 13 hour shifts you've
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got them living in those little containers there in squalid conditions you know although we've got footage of it with film of it you're keeping people in conditions of modern slavery. their slave anybody the bodies which any of them how about the work you punched in the stomach in the office what you say about that is he lying as well. nothing where i should not do i'm cleaning course every day i work 7 days a week myself i've got 3 kids to grow up which i really ticked off that i work 7 days a week and i never saw anybody i never forced anybody or told anybody either to stay in here. you can't do that you can't do that anywhere in the world. we know now that you are keeping workers in can. keep you know anybody that your understanding is that will explain why someone who's so frightened of you brought into the rally who are not even away in the middle of the night. you know threatening me i don't
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threaten anybody i do not have. congress where you can use the language you punch someone in the stomach why haven't you doc money from people. you take 600 pound from one man haven't done. you play word for words with no pay i haven't done that to anybody so this is a fabrication everybody is telling the truth wages it's not right let's go look at the accommodation that's going on common shows they call it what you got going or what. thank you very having. a lazy big brown customers responded to the allegations of slavery in the supply chain volvo calls said it's code of conduct stated its employees and franchises must comply with the law. the lipscomb dealership said it did comply with all those code of conduct kiya motors u.k.
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told is it expected all its dealers to obey the law. garrett's said it was shocked and concerned by ali gay sions and is investigating. the legitimate and the illegitimate economy become one in some ways because actually companies and people don't realize sometimes that they are using people who are exploited and that they are using modern day slaves in their supply chain. and britain's growing demand for cut price goods and services is fueling us exploitation this is a horrendous crime the suffering of the victims is beyond anything that we can often imagine and so anything that that can be done to bring human trafficking and modern slavery to an end should be done.
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sand this is an attack on academic freedom and on our ability to do research and teach freely this is a dialogue myanmar is not making it very welcoming for people to come back everyone has a voice climate change is real the discussion is real and i'm here to talk about the solutions i'm out easier.
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during movement of the home front as i put the questions to my special guests and charlie them to some straight talking political debate here on al-jazeera. 0. hello welcome to the al-jazeera news hour live from my headquarters in doha with me unless the peron i'm coming up for the next 60 minutes more pressure on donald trump and not the white house aide who listened to the phone call with ukraine's
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leader to testify. lebanese banks reopened for the 1st time following 2 weeks of protests customers a face and restrictions on transfers aboard. he sends more tanks to its southern border as it begins joint patrols with russia and north east in syria and thousands of anti-government protesters marched in pakistan's capital demanding prime minister and non-coms resignation and i'm we're hard in with sports the olympic marathon and race walking are on the move tokyo's governor reluctantly gives her support for those races to be shifted to sapporo overheat concerns. and aid to acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney is expected to testify this hour in the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump probably as
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a. those who listed who listened rather in on the july 25th phone call between trump and the ukrainian president would trump is accused of withholding aid to pressure ukraine and investigating his political rival joe biden now on thursday the democratic majority house of representatives voted to formalize the rules of the investigation let's go to our white house correspondent kelly health that she is joining us live from washington d.c. the day after the vote kimberly's and naturally the president has been busy tweeting what's he saying. yeah well the u.s. president as he has been since this vote was formalized has continued to characterize this impeachment inquiry as the greatest a witch hunt in american history there's no question that this is now history in the making the fact that this will now be transparent to the public the public will now have the opportunity to judge whereas before it was the politicians who were controlling this narrative and message for and against the president now these will
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be open there will be increased transparency so that u.s. president as he often is a master marketer has continued to use twitter as his sort of primary mouthpiece in order to convey his his feelings on where things stand what are we talking about it's this july 25th phone call between the u.s. president and the ukrainian president where it's alleged that the u.s. president sort of put lingard out there with a quid pro quo in essence saying that he was going to withhold military aid in exchange for having a request for an investigation into his political rival the former vice president joe biden the president maintains he did nothing wrong democrats say he broke the law so the u.s. president tweeting in his defense read tweeting what others have said that has sort of built the case for him in his defense but at the bottom line is now it's up to the people it's the public that will ultimately have to decide even though it is the lawmakers who will vote to impeach the president and we saw on tuesday how
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divided with the vote very much on posh lines completely but where does the public stand on this one of the polls saying. but the public mirrors the u.s. congress and of so naturally we're going to see a divided congress given the fact that the american public or the people that voted to put them in there in a reflective of their views that has not shifted we've seen a series of polls coming out in the last 24 hours that show that america remains divided but here is one thing that could go in either direction we just hasn't job numbers come out and once again the economy has has seen an addition of jobs in october 128000 at the end of the day there are a lot of people that don't particularly like donald trump but they like having a job they like being able to pay their bills and so there is a factor segment of america that is simply holding their nose saying you know what maybe we don't impeach this guy because we just want to see the ship sort of stay
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on course but then there are others who like many lawmakers on capitol hill say look at this is a grave moment in american history if we don't stand up things could change precedent could be set for future presidents that's why we must hold accountable so that's why you see this sort of public airwaves waging of for and against the president going on not just by the president but by ordinary americans who are also making the case as well committee thank you for now that is complete health get with the nation to live in washington d.c. thank you. for moving on to other news now and after weeks of protests and roadblocks across lebanon's schools and banks have reopened their doors a custom is angry about limits imposed on how much money they can with the troy every day and some banks have imposed restrictions on money being sent abroad meanwhile protesters are continuing their calls for the entire government to resign let's go to our correspondent saying the whole the she's joining us live from the
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capital beirut so how was the 1st operational day for banks in 2 weeks given. 2 weeks and especially given the fears around you know kept a fly people trying to take all their money out. well the protest movement is now confined to squares anti-government protesters yes they try at times to continue to block roads but security forces move in quickly what authorities are trying to do is restore normalcy to the country it was paralyzed for 2 weeks massive demonstrations across the country in the banks have reopened schools universities but the lebanese central bank it hasn't made any formal statement but it has taken measures to prevent capital flight to prevent the lebanese from transferring their money abroad and even putting a daily cap banks are now putting a daily cap on how much money you can withdraw from banks some banks are allowing you to withdraw $800.00 other banks $600.00 and other banks you can take out more
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money but you're going to have to pay a certain percentage to the bank if you choose to do so and if you do want to transfer your money abroad you have to have what banks call a valid reason that means you should be maybe you have to pay tuition fees or medical fees or send money to your family so the central bank doing its best in order for the economy to remain stable even before the protest movement began the economy was on shaky ground unemployment was high lebanon was not able to attract foreign capital so that is why there is really a fear especially about the value of the lebanese leader the local currency even before the protest movement happened it was already losing value in the black market so steps have been taken to prevent the economy from collapsing meanwhile then as you mentioned you know the protests are continuing despite another address by president ali on thursday of knowledge and yet again that the system is broken and needs to change. yes the political
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crisis is not over we are waiting to hear from the secretary general of hezbollah that movement is really leading the dominant force in the ruling coalition its along with its allies they control the government they control parliament and in the his past 2 speeches hassan nasrallah since the protests began he really angered many in the street because he accused some organizers of these protests of having links with foreign embassies and hezbollah's backer iran went as far as to accuse the united states saudi arabia and israel of financing this protest movement so we're expecting him to speak shortly and we have to see the reaction from the street is he going to adopt a more conciliatory tone like his ally president did last night president in many ways to try to appease the street try to reach out to the people saying that yes i agree the next government should have ministers who are appointed on the basis of their qualification and not their political affiliation one of the demands of the street something that hezbollah for example did not address president saying that
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this movement is legitimate it's spontaneous is even saying that he supports a civic state which runs against the i jolly g. of hezbollah which wants a religious and sectarian system of government so this is we have to wait to hear what he has to say but in the meantime we're also waiting for the president to set a date to start binding parliamentary consultations in order to choose a new prime minister so the political crisis there there are politicians behind the scenes in gauging and discussions seeing how to resolve this crisis but the message from the street is very clear we want the whole ruling elite to leave not just the prime minister who has already resigned a few days ago we want the president to resign we want you elections saying no thank you for that phenomena and saying the whole of the nation and they vote thank you so there is concern on whether the already fragile economic situation and lebanon might get worse it's one of the most heavily indebted countries in the world over nearly $86000000000.00 that's more than $130.00. the cent of the
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country's g.d.p. most of the national budget goes to was paying back loans and covering public sector wages and spending often exceeds income and lebanon has long relied on foreign investors to help pay its bills but a lack of reform is hurting the sector well let's get more on this now we're joined by louise her baker a professor of economics at not a dom university and he's also joining us live from the lebanese capital beirut very good to have you with us on algis there as our correspondent zain i was talking to us about some of these short very short term measures that have been put in place you know capital controls measures after 2 weeks of banks being closed again these a very short term wall the government that's in place now the prime minister has resigned will this government be given an opportunity do you think to propose another economic package prime minister her deedes was rejected.
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well there is no it is actually rejection by a minister made a proposal proposal was like why is the public however the public did not believe what he was saying it's not a question of what he proposed questions our politicians in lebanon now are not credible the public lost confidence in politicians and i think the public is that we lost confidence in the politicians now what we want is to have a new government now whatever resides or government is the really not important or zones that have really has the last chance to do so but we need a new government with fresh faces so the public and really good the confidence of the public can really go back and can really increase so so far i think we're waiting we're in a in a period where we we don't know what's going to happen 11 are of course banks help us banks have open today there will not be capital controls i mean what what's
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happening today is that the banks are to prove them are cared for and which is really correct i think it's the right thing to do because you're you live in a troubled country in a troubled region you cannot really open up in the 3rd if we are in business as usual so what's being done is through them it's not control and what mr baker what needs to happen next you know what the number of challenges economic challenges that the government as facing any one any government that send power and the people want to technocratic government i mean how how does it go about addressing the challenges one of the biggest priorities well the most important parity is to get back confidence to get back confidence you need to have people that the public trusts and their own is a small country people know each other quite well so whenever you set up a new government people don't know already if those people are good or not good so .
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