son abilities is charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity the world health organization is warning that too many nations are heading in the wrong direction as well the wide cases of coronavirus top $13000000.00 it says they'll be no return to the old normal for the foreseeable future and face coverings will become compulsory for shoppers in england from july 24th those courts not wearing one could be fined as much as 125 dollars former british socialite and the long time friend of convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein will face her 1st hearing in a new york court on tuesday maxwell has been charged for her involvement in an alleged sex trafficking operation she is expected to appear via video link. well those are the headlines next stop that slavery a 21st century evil. we know what's happening in our region we know how to get the date is that others and all i want just but only the other guy but a pretty fun fair bet that buyers and then i'm going i'm going to give you. the

teeth. you know. the way that you cal death story isn't what can make a difference. to 300 years the most powerful nations on earth group richer and strong go on the profits of the slave trade over 12000000 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 19th century it is alive it is thriving and it is bigger than ever.

this series investigates the very small the evil of 21st century slavery. from the smallest villages in asia to some of the most economically vibrant cities in the west. but it begins in the last place you'd expect to find slaves. a country which only a few generations ago tore itself a pause to outlaw slavery a country still racked by collective guilt over its role in the transatlantic trade . the united states probably has between $40.50 slaves measured conservatively but i think also to be fair the united states is one of the governments that has been most honest about the extent the amount and

precise crime of enslavement within the united states. 150 years ago if you walked around the heart of the u.s. capital you could have a slave of a street corner and this country how to go through a painful civil war in order to bring slavery and i'm in the 21st century there's no doubt that the united states is leading the way in the fight against modern slavery and this testament to that this country is planning to prosecute the largest ever case against modern slavery. america's playground. but behind the glamour secrets hidden in plain sight.

to produce the food the rest of the world. there is a strong possibility that there are very. very eggs that. could have been brought to your table by enslaved. in the land of the free. do you see. how. someone had. some high powered flight you don't like them but. they were.

in the remote's northern provinces of thailand life has continued unchanged for centuries. close knit families eke out a subsistence living by working on sister lands and right streets. and it was here in 2003 the agents for an american farm worker recruitment company came calling. but. there's often. a need of us all year and i mean i know my back. oh a. young american woman going to go back where my back. getting that kind of kenyan. families in lump and less than $1000.00 a year. the recruiters told them that in america they would

$50000.00. there was just one. they had to pay illegally high registration fees to the recruiters up front and then. the recruitment base were high they were generally between 50750000 tie bought or between 152-0000 u.s. dollars. for 3 years of. they believed guaranteed work in the contract and. employment at a rate of 8 or $9.00 an hour so when the guys did the math they figured that they could pay off their debt in the 1st year and then the 2nd and 3rd years would basically profit for their families.

if the. decision should be made by more than 1000 men like. in this impoverished corner of thailand was the start of a journey that began with a dream of a future that would end in slavery. only in. the. this is where some of those men were sent a lewd songs on. the key supply routes and vegetables to major will some brands.

but very quickly lose new recruits from the dream they had been sold turned into a nightmare. the problems really started early on for the guys their passports were taken shortly upon arrival they did not have enough food many times they were given moldy bread if anything at all and coffee and oftentimes they didn't have probably most mornings they didn't have enough to eat before going out and starting their toiling in the in the very hot sun on the other planes which is where loon farms this is located. a pow. and i study my heart i know that these illnesses that well but there are no public but a lot of cotton made i don't know the next batch of gentlewomen. all the high school my title. and wonderful.

mom and i mean midland. it's a bag i didn't want to have and want to ask people for making something new. and then the promised pay started to dry up. they were given the amount of work the amount of hours per week that was promised and they very quickly started to see again calculating the math in their heads that they weren't going to be able to pay the interest on the debt much less to start paying down the debt. without money and isolated on the loon farms remote fields the time workers found themselves trapped. they say even if. you say. that but. the one. thing. that happened.

in december 2009 the owners of a loon farms brothers mike and alex pled guilty to charges of conspiring to hold the time and conditions for. the sues admitted knowing about the illegal recruitment fees confiscating the work as possible and then with financial ruin if they try to escape. what makes this case one of more than slavery forced labor they were constantly being told that if they if they complained. if they didn't work extra hard they were going to be sent home and it was it was the fear of being sent home and the fear of. losing everything in their family that kept them in that condition and i think you know

there are different ways of cheney and imprisoning someone all time slavery was i think much more fear of a physical. abuse and harm and even death here the threat wasn't so much physical the threat the fear for the victims was complete destitution and loss for their family and they with those everything and that kept them that kept them in that mission. the souse also agreed to pay each of their victims $8000.00 compensation enough to enable them to go home to thailand. but what happened next would dash even that.

on honolulu many of those victims had waited years to see the case come to me. but this summer and despite the sea brothers' previous guilty pleas elude prosecution was dismissed on a legal technicality. it left the thai workers without their promised money and completely devastated. that. someone got. caught up with the. how. the government. they met play your. part i mean i left it at that. and watch me come up with a name a comet that. when it. went up on.

a loon song wasn't the only business competing in the whole british time man but this. same time. zones incorporated a multi-million dollar recruitment agency in los angeles was operating in an identical scheme but on a much larger scale. the. global rise and essentially applied for at least for over a 1000 workers to be brought into this country and they were placed on farms throughout the united states on the mainland and off the mainland and they were growing and harvesting all kinds of produce they were on pig farms there are farms there on chicken farms you name it.

targeted the same impoverished villages in thailand as a loon farms. and this route is the same. registration for. the buddha there's a set cap on how much you're supposed to pay for work abroad so in this case for farm work in the u.s. the workers should not be paying more than $60000.00 baht that is. currency. but in fact would have ended up happening the workers were taught that they had to pay 900000 baht and they ended up having to mortgage their lands and their homes. and they had to. take money from loan sharks borrow money to massive x. orbit and debt and and pay high interest. samet signed up with global

horizons in 2004. to agree on a lot from long. well what do you mean by that are you leaving the american. you're not going to be on one soul in gippsland by going from i'll see if i'm right i'm not miami last night he just when i'm. talking to him here i'm really. sorry it's mortgaged his home his fields and his father's land to pay the recruiter's fees but the american dream turned sour very quickly in my last night down town was i go ball i don't see how i got in iraq. and i'm going to say it. that i'm running. going home again my name and i. don't want i want. my mechanic i don't stop to talk up the man and i can give you one you only go to going to london what is that song

called the meaning wrong i'm moving on i'm a whole lot going on you i'm been tired. many of. my neighbors now many of those i wish i. could have. gone behind and go about. this is the man who owned and operated global horizons incorporated an israeli businessman called mordechai multi. mr or ian's extensive business dealings in the united states brought him wealth and to whom in the hills above sentence. but both mr oriel i'm global have a long and checkered history. there are many actions filed against mr ryan

now the us federal department labor charges against him. for back wages and penalties and then there are liens on his properties by the i.r.s. the internal revenue service of the federal government because of pay taxes there's also immigration violations. in 2007 individual time workers began arriving at the time and community development center in los angeles. each told a story of having to escape from what they called slavery. they came out as far up north as pacific northwest state of washington oregon and then. those are states you to arizona new mexico and going south texas louisiana florida

these are the states where they skate from all the farms they were on south carolina. all the way up to east coast and then of course hawaii the different islands of hawaii but it covers the entire country where the farms where the former slaves were able to sort of run away that's right. son it's was one of those who escaped. in one iraq. and i might be you. pale but i'm not a. whole now when i now. get. what i want and how and when i can what. i'm going to. get in. but escaping from slavery has not made him free.

there landing on. him i mean the salary i made i didn't. want to. take up to. go out and buy. oh man the day you. don't i need a lot. and what. i might die handlers had done any. more. in september 2010 the f.b.i. and justice department charged mordechai orian and his key lieutenants and global horizons with multiple counts of human trafficking the indictment alleges that global horizons knew about the illegal recruitment fees and took

a cuts of them held hundreds of time workers as forced labor on farms across the united states confiscated their passports and deployed armed guards to prevent them from leaving. this is by far the most significant case in u.s. history of human trafficking and modern day slavery because it will now become go like this case of human trafficking in u.s. history because of the sheer number of victims involved. trial is not due to start until february 2012 but after months of negotiation he agreed to meet us in a california hotel room. he now claims he is the victim of a plot by the justice department to cover up flaws in the regulations covering migrant workers coming to america so now there is a problem is that this guy this little jew israeli whatever he come from it's

blaming him for everything that we hate and make you to be his human trafficking american to but you can so you much i mean about anything in fact if you if that's the philosophy of human trafficking so everything is you're much african going airplane from hawaii to l.a. human trafficking so all their lives and human trafficking business because we traffic my walkers from island to island hawaiian airlines with regard to the registration fees the government alleges that some of these words high as $21000.00 u.s. dollars i think it's a totally wrong what you say because. i don't believe that they pay this kind amount of money i think it's fiction if i'm retired just let's go reverse now and somebody told me i'm going to have a job in another country and by the way this is up and for every country around the ward and i would really eager to go there ok i'll do anything i can to make it happen and i'll go to extreme because i'm jewish the people in the holocaust done anything they can to serve their life you know how many american

people to they would be happy to get $10.00 an hour net in their pocket and have somebody pay for them housing transportation take them to walk every day all take my grandmother shopping once a week that's what you call human trafficking. in february of 20111 of more high aryans most senior left tenants decided to enter into a plea bargain with the u.s. justice department and agreed to turn evidence against his former ally mr bruce schwartz said that he knowingly conspired to in slave time workers with the full knowledge of mr laurean and other members of global horizons that together they purposely withheld the passport of the thai workers thus making it impossible for them to escape and they also knowingly used the huge amount of debts that the thai workers had entered into as a way of enforcing the thai workers to remain and global horizons employment. after everything that you have had to face in your code if you personally do you have any

regrets i believe if i was myself i would not really go i don't have. to send now because i think what i've done was a great thing i changed people's life i think the pain of what my family went through and my kids it was a little if i can call it a little holocaust for my family in that if nothing else mr and his alleged victims have something in common. what. about what. about what did. you have. parallel. to your. twitter. said when you come in with. me but i don't really well.

young annoy or what i do you know him babble when one of the. couple got across the united states many of the victims of global horizons a pinning their hopes on the trial of. but the collapse of the prosecution has dented their faith in the us legal system does the american government do enough to end slavery within its borders absolutely not it needs to spend a 1000000000 a year perhaps to really wipe it out it spends maybe $1250000000.00 and it barely scratches the surface and the thing that's heartbreaking about that fact is that

the united states could be a slave free country. today hundreds of the thai slaves who were victims of a new farms and global horizons remain trapped in the united states. unable to return home because of their debts and separates it from the families when they could try to. get.

the traffickers actually use files that psychology and emotions from the very beginning until the very end the trade in human flesh is big business. and wealthy western nations are implicated how can a girl from albania no way to know how to run to when the must be an organized crime gangs sex slaves episode 2 of slavery a 21st century evil on al-jazeera. the coronavirus manifolds us to change the full pot of head to head for the time being but that would stop me doing robust interviews with challenging direct questions in a u.s. election year i'll be seeking accountability from both sides of the political spectrum on who's to blame for the horrific coronavirus just talk on how to fix the

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