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in east is up next as countries begin easing coronavirus restrictions scientists warn of a 2nd wave of infections in the last few days. and some of the neighborhood and many see the economy is being pyaar a toy store bought for human life until fall yet leave the focus on the outfield what spike in public like to face as we bring you the latest developments from across the globe coronavirus condiment special coverage on. as malaysia now sits to contain the code 19 barks coulthard she said been carrying out military style operations across the capital kuala lumpur please in the name of public health and safety they've rounded up illegal foreign workers. oh when you look at these rides you can't help but think is the practical reality of dealing with a pandemic or is it racism. we're treating them like animals
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this is not the way to treat a migrant worker he's a little boy. human. but it out. the. window but i didn't go to get that i know my so. when i went to east investigates why so many foreigners abating locked up in malaysia's locked down. pools migrant neighborhoods around the sage any identified as areas with high infection rights have been locked in behind bob wire and barricades. this is part of malaysia's response to coded 19 across the city people are being tested. taken
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from their home was fingerprinted tested for the disease and shipped it's a valid documents those without them a swiftly taken out. of the shop you realize what's going on. we're not allowed inside they spent ferrets but phone footage from local residents gives us a glimpse inside the crackdown. shortly after one right i speak with true migrants from bangladesh. can't debates about gets out of this any one of them tells me he's afraid to leave his apartment
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because he doesn't have a valid work permit he managed to avoid arrest by hiding we've been trying to get witness testimony from paypal but as you can say this place there we conquered through the wire. i got my i day look this is my id on from the press yeah this is an area look at this but the way within our rights to report from here. but he stuck to it off. to avoid your thorough g.'s we make another migrant worker caught up in the raids at an underground compound. fearing reprisals from malaysia's government the pakistani man only agrees to speak with us anonymously he was arrested with his wife and 2 children there just shouting on us just said don't just get lost keep quiet and be silent we have no words to say and we don't have
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a viper ask any question found. the man was a policeman in pakistan and says the malaysian authorities were asked blind come up often are very angry there and they keep the mobile and they putting on the head like this like this. he says his whole family including his son and daughter west handcuffed and chained together with other children and the elderly under the hot sun they were only relates to hours later after both our cities verified their documents my daughter still is scared she is talking nothing. she said may be to come again even be have a valid documentation they are not respecting us as a woman i learn here we have of foreigners have a value just like a dog on. malaysia's economy depends on $2200000.00 migrant workers but it's estimated another $4000000.00 i here illegally taking the
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dirty dangerous jobs few locals money. they often traffic by agassi's exploited and trap them in a sock. deb's. soon after the penn dimmick was declared malaysia's defense minister ismail sabri called the amnesty so they would come forward and be tested for the virus they did it up for document padilla and then record that pick it up for. some i don't recall any but it. could be 19 at the border but if you need more what setting and that's right them will get binding by leaving by x. 3 board. yeah kind of liken it to.
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malaysia's migrants say that promise now feels like a brutal betrayal. right one could be a live in shout kids a district known for its bazaars and curry houses the bangladeshi migrant shows me footage of what happened after the area was locked down behind razor wire raihan says when he heard a knock on his apartment door he thought it was government workers coming to test the 19 or deliver i instead of the next few days almost 600 residents were rounded up pushing trucks and taken away did make a trap for us to make good food they give medication all due to give. so no one expecting there are going to address the people they're not. they're not creamy no. they're just undocumented. right han has a valid work but his friends wings of an expired free doorway was swiftly taken
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away by immigration officials he also has been arrested in this time it was not his fault his companion ever he knew his be so. you know i don't i don't die musician and on the police station i cry in the gate police let me meet my friends. down the road right han and i meet for hard charging another bangladeshi detained in the raids he's been working in malaysia for over 20 years 1st in construction and hotels then he started his own business selling fabric. but his visa expired during the lockdown when it was impossible to renew it but it didn't come up in the budget. it was alluding to the. poor hard says if the all forces i aim is to contain the bars cramming people together in
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immigration trucks is counterproductive. but did in a rather get. another to didn't look in the look. like a loser from the bottom to the detriment of the layoffs the struggle. to hard has since discovered that 3 people from the right and buildings have tested positive for cars with don t. he fears they could have infected him and many others. have not especially in the. activity. and have to do this. for hard story makes rihanna if he's friends help. he hasn't heard from ray doing since his arrest. today rihanna is meetings to meet that he's not a human rights lawyer who specializes in helping migrant workers so when did he
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become undocumented if you settled last year this company. okies company goes bankrupt then. hiding his visitor and he knew. he had to loan money everything so he became under the window ok bt attempt to go to the labor department to file a case against his employer. mr pierce the people like them here labor here how do you. think they don't know you that anyway just want to meet my friend is there any way so there is no visitation to any of the. detention center this is not only for the nationals even the lawyers can point to the detention centers to see the yeah. it's closed for now. there's little he can do to hold. it right hon drives to the detention center anyway hoping to at
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least catch a glimpse of his friend. he can't wait to see if he's ok because detainees aren't allowed phones when they come here i become emotional it's. unbearable for me i cannot meet him i don't know is eating or not i going to give him the food i'm very much worried about him ryan came to malaysia 6 years ago to study and now works in marketing he says he loves his job and living here but this crackdown has changed the way raihan sees the nation and made him think about leaving this is a total a clear act of racism visiting here act of humility people so the so i feel the scale of the future of the migrant people i don't think that people will keep to trust again for the government because they were afraid. detention centers have now become hot spots because at 19 with more than 700 reported cases rights advocates say the recent influx of migrants into these already crowded facilities has created
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perfect conditions for the virus to spread but malaysia's defense minister rejects the criticism that are going to record them by going to the. window rejected to set the record that he got that i didn't. but it. did at the top. only state media were allowed into government press conferences. several requests to interview the same the minister for minister and his deputies who declined. lyin rekha that that the state the truth forgot about the. then break that it up with them but i believe you gotta get the kind of my sausage or her hair and then he can cut that get the i'm bigger some by the time assuming we're good we begin america didn't fill up with pretty. strong wind health workers
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say the raids a creating fear and mistrust amongst vulnerable populations making it hard to contain the spread of corona virus. from the 3rd temple but the 4th issue. at this health clinic foreigners queue to be tested for covert military but the line used to be much longer. since the raids began there's been less demand for free testing the media apprehensive about coming forward because. of the possibility of them being exposed and then the possibility of perhaps being apprehended by the authorities for being unbecoming to. dr ahmed faisal put downs is the president of mercy malaysia which runs these health programs for migrants and refugees there
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definitely would be extra pressure now for those who are undocumented pleasure on them. to decide whether they should come out for testing or not do that micro job harder. well it makes our job bit more complicated i will say if there is someone or a group of people who are there not to be positive later and we miss them and then big on 3 fact others and then and then create another cluster or 2 which which then will create further problems. malaysia's coded 19 response has successfully contained the initial spread of the virus but dr put downs says foreigners have been unfairly blamed in the crisis one of the impacts of it maintain it brings out the best in us in any given time front like work there's a sense and people giving to charity. on the other hand has brought out also as you
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know for being racism is not accepted this year and they take the option of your boss to them with social media especially to take out their. prejudices. and racism on very vulnerable people's. quantum pools biggest hole sell food market operates from early morning to like knots but it could be 19 outbreak group tried to an abrupt halt here for several days. now business is back but with one big change margaret's few long kept things market stalls money can no longer work you. must i mean. get them but. yet getting the guy needs me down is any. idea that you need and i'm winning the fact that i never let anyone tell you that they're too little and i got
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you normally. see that. mohamed in sunny been young runs the local traders association he says hiring only locals who make a market site for. that put into that make the that make it into a company cost with that kind of backwardly think out. that they were singing it would. make me. think i might have gotten them by out. if he needed to but then he. didn't have a cd. like that. i did and when i. got to none of that my mind how is this a fair program or not but programming to. announce one and i had fool for coal
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mine. until i'm going to pick up when i went up you have 20 years ago i got the answer i knew up young and got the thing i got yeah yeah i did look at they have a coal mine legislation latest in the su until. muhammad run a recruitment drive to replace the foreign workers but locals $500.00 malaysians applied for just 60 positions. this man was one of the successful applicants oh don't you. think. that you. would think you. were very much but not everyone is happy the stallholders complain that they new employees can't handle the long hours and manual labor involved some who already quit leaving them understand. that. some want the hard and put look and it is helpful but with me now more
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say we'll tell you. what you got. hired at that would. mean. the removal of foreign workers from the markers and from their neighborhoods ignatian social media. photos and videos of the riots which she had online. and she immigration facebook groups have been telling a legal margarets to go. muhammad thinks malaysia should not allow so many foreign workers. to be. there. when the lockdown began.
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because. foreigners were the 1st to be stood down from construction sites shops office blocks and factories. to. move to malaysia 4 years ago. so she could provide for her family. she found a cleaning job at a restaurant but employer didn't want to apply and pay for a visa on her behalf. i mean. before the pandemic she was.
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yes. some days 6 month old baby goes hungry who took the heat up on her the hurting of a monkey if this was such a sad day the kind of buy at home on the left on maybe not the item number not to lose. the balloon buy a puppy. but make it out. on the park if they keep going and i must upon the city keep the saw. with its image on the left of that but believe me my lady saw. us might get lucky that it up limiting down some of the people who suffer because of me. but this malaysian is determined to help the desperate like ream of. our eggs on runs the n.g.o.s margaret care at
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a supermarket he's working trucks to the brim with rice eggs and cooking oil. all the kinda location all 51 percent of the knowledge of course. it's a difficult logistical operation but of. our existing deliveries across the city feeding margaret workers who lost their jobs during the crisis call a human being. desperate for food asking plenty more so for the. mr so why 1st. this is one of 8 deliveries the team will make today more than 200 migrants who now get to eat i've got that camera down for the film but the fact that. when people are desperate they can help clean up all of the social distancing that portion of what was taken out by the other but that is what
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matter. after studying in indonesia and seeing its workers exploited in other countries alexander the agio with fellow activists in 2003. they have never been busier receive some donation from somebody. of course they don't eat out a font come from my personal savings. so you're doing this out of the goodwill of your own. alex does his best to allocate aid to the most needy today he's visiting indonesian migrant when the supporter she lives at a squatter settlement near the river. windy has a work permit but lost her job as a cleaner at a car showroom during the pandemic. when work dried up here the nepalese husband returned home to try and earn money so now it's just wendy and her son left in
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kuala lumpur barely surviving on fish their neighbors catch in the nearby pollution river when these communities desperately needs help. oh man oh man you know that i don't want the marriage going on i can't say i'm going to battle. someone you know it took a bit of. it out just to keep it actually to be but to be happy you know. the age he's given. will last for 2 months but the future is uncertain when he doesn't know when she could work again and he's contemplating leaving malaysia i've got my number to 35 a. loser she's tracking where she is if you don't take that example if you can get this behind you that she did that. with travel restrictions in
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place she's stuck for now like many moderates she'll have to wait it out. after i'm. dead to get the high notes little how little. i fit in fact. as demand for food increases alex's team work around the clock we can go up to. 18 hours a day and sometimes we just sleep wake up in front of a computer you have. 2300. 2. 135 baby receiving hits so. is that the most stressful. we believe that human resources may have many of us a budding out. it's draining but alex says
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malaysia owes margaret workers who've helped build this country instead of exploiting them locking them up or ignoring their plight he wants malaysians to recognise them as a vital part of the community. contribute konami. among the coming to see what i was see a lot people like to pinpointing the government should be responsive and foyer should be responsive the way i look at it he said to. me and peace has to be. we are living in the coming days. malaysia is now preparing to deport thousands of undocumented workers arrested in the ragheads. but critics say this crackdown ignores some of the root causes driving the spread of the virus poverty and exploitation. the government is banning employers from hiring
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