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was destroyed with street lights even melting because of the extreme heat. it's known as the dixie foreign. it's been burning for about 3 weeks now. fed by high temperatures, strong winds, and low humidity in our all the headlines rebels from if you appears water region of tech ry of taking control of lally baylor. this is a unesco world heritage site valley baylor is located in m horror region. and this is a sacred sites of pilgrimage for millions of christians, famed for its 12th century rocky and churches fighting and to grow his build into neighboring regions and recent weeks with thousands of people forced to flee the violence. malcolm webb has more from nairobi, who resident and others have told us that fighters from the degree region of entered historic town lally better. there were rumors that they were closed on local residents over the last week. some of the residents that they've had gunfire

at night, but they say it's normal to to have some gunfire at night there. but in just in the last few hours, resident said they could see the, the gray and people's liberation from fighters getting close. and then just to show a while ago, they've taken control of the town in chad, 24 soldiers there have been killed in an attack by suspected book all around fighters. this happened on an island in the lake chan region book, a ram and a rival splinter group have been using the area to launch attacks in china and neighboring countries. and iran, you present is taken office with a direct stance on us sanctions and his countries nuclear ambitions. brian rice, he said he would take steps to lift the sanctions, which have devastated the country's economy. 11 east is the program coming up next, investigating an online sec scam. in the philippines, the u. s. has withdrawn the majority of its troops from america the longest war,

leaving the battle for control. the african military be able to hold its ground against the taliban, and the afghans to help the american war effort relocated to the u. s. the future hold for that special coverage for not going to san on al jazeera. across the world, men are being looted into online chat. with trick into performing sexual acts up the line of all from a village in the philippines. young workers then blackmail their victim, pulling in millions of dollars. they bought some of the western union branches in the area around where she lived, recorded the biggest teachings of any branches in the world for period one or one

east. investigate the inner workings of an international online 6 o. ne of the philippines capital manila is a ramshackle village where he to meet young man will call mark. say someone, what i mean. i mean, you can get a predict, i'm going to go on an oblong medical anthony handed outside the 5. i didn't bother me putting to come back up. and i mean, you got 100 western and then i was coming back and gotten lady getting your money. didn't about new ways and i'm saying now somebody made easy money, not only mark blood for

a criminal syndicate that created a new type of cyber scan known as 6 torsion here ledges. one woman is that the center of the online crime in pile? maria could power the machine might that might have been one, not my mom or just by watching them by me the same way. so we have to make, tie our, i know samples in the states, i'm going to why they mentioned that in big things that are going to bone on bone and then lana lecture among tele, well awesome, you know, go out, listen, mclean, them them, pair up once we're done and dial as the number of victims groups. so did questions

about the scan. i had no idea what, what the crime was or howard can also be work until i started looking into a journalist simon perry began investigating the syndicate in 2016. the 1st thing we knew about sex torsion was a case in scotland involving a 17 year old and i told daniel perry who apparently received messages through facebook perhaps some money extorted from him, received some of our 3000 pounds from him before even our money. they then carried on threatening him, threatened to release these video recordings of him and. and i started saying, well, why don't you kill yourself and taunting him even. and the last message you sent it and said, i haven't got any more money by buying. he then took his own life. ah,

ah, the police investigators traced the chat to a criminal gang in the philippines. usually you'll find these crimes my originating nigeria or some african countries and then get copied overseas the here. this is the 1st anyone ever heard of these crimes being penetration in about 20132014. they suddenly started spring up. this crime didn't exist until maria compress invented. the syndicate has reportedly extorted $1900000.00 from bells, and the victims church sons of untraceable linea, all of which will be sent to western union account. some of the western union branches in the area around where she lived recorded the biggest

teachings, any western union branches in the world for periods in 20142015. that was so much money coming in at this time. oh, parents wasn't always so we'll see. she lived in the slums of manila before moving to north hills village. she then started working in a fit to women's trip and talk to strangers on the internet. let's face it, it's a pretty chip, everything grading line of where to find yourself. and i imagine that's where the cynicism about the victims comes in. she's seeing men who are behaving in a very exports to manner and be working with other people who are eventually exploited. and some studies, we don't know when clearly a light bulb went on. she realized how she could turn this to her advantage. it's

an evil stand, but it's a very clever scout the same time and plays on the fact that people so ready to strike a conversations with the stranger like that about the on top of somebody. but let me know and being jason says he was you the 1st year of high school when he was recruited into the organization. did i wanted, i was faith based more in a good one. and i went by after finding an existing account of a pretty young girl from career china. jason with then corners to create his own mother behind me. but i don't mean that only gardner. so i don't know what was inside me in the, in the cities like, you know, you're probably in the mean mean, mean with me,

paul. then it's time to little for potential victim without it, i know engineering lives, even militia engineer lives in hong kong element. and i mean, not huge in my, in my mind going on long. i mean, you know me, my stuff, i mean was, and they don't go where they don't. i know you, you mean i did the saying they didn't get up and i think we see beings done, and i usually get that in asian. she puppies, the way 6 social works if somebody will send you a friend request on facebook, somebody before check. but my guy and i know my god about him i got done by my gosh, i had to be more high and oh, you know,

i know you're really a someone i know it's all going on going on because it was being going on and i know you mean no going on. that was about not going on. got on the big brands going on going on, but i don't want to shaw your fellow 6 gamma mark. susie worked alongside teenagers or no matter. no, it wasn't about 17 years old. 1718. 19 double something, and that's how we were state to chapters. we'll get bonuses and extra rewards. she showered him with gifts. i files and samson phones. mark says 30 scanners work 6 ships out of the secluded house in the mountains outside.

the filipino village of north hills, maria perez had another she large property in the center of the village was like an entertainment center for the mostly young people who would work to her. and there was always kinds of kids that gathering around them. and of course, that was a demographic that would be working for her for being trying to work for her older me. oh, the main source of income for the local villages used to be baking and selling te, tell me some and i and then all

like about us, be not enough. not battle in a scam and say no one wants to report to paris to place our show. you show you one on one i'm on. i'm not about home mission human. be about something about you when i'm your mom and show you or not. but why don't people cherish to talk about what's going on? not only terrified but probably interested as well because everybody has son or daughter or brother or sister, somehow involved in and one scam or the other with money you can, you can literally buy people that technician was she was doing

the scanner is bray or men from all over the world. this victim spoke to us on the condition of anonymity. i got a random facebook request. one night female. at 1st i was resistant because i didn't know this person at all me at the time, anything, nothing of it, like i said. so we started chatting a 2nd, we got on the web cam. this person was already removing the whole thing. i did not anticipate this kind of conversation prior to that one and they started moving their holding started doing some more things like that.

started asking me to really my whole thing. i was resistant, a lot of time for me about 15 minutes. i didn't really know this person. i didn't want to do that. i'm not really into that whole thing either. you know what i mean? but eventually i did, i mention my private area this person proceeded to start the video and scream when once that happened, i kind of realized something was going on something blind all night. mark says deduction is the key to extortion. to scan this, take videos from form,

signed and play them for their victims, pretending to be the woman in the video. then they lose the men they chatting to, to performing similar acts. you're not going to be a whole, but the whole guiding monkey to get him on top of us. so when someone put down, jason says the scam is control the videos to make it look as realistic as possible . but i think i've been by your name. if you already let me know, maybe your hands, maybe your got it on your needs. do mean if you can but we've got done on so the final step, the scanners gather what they need to extort victims out there in on erica for gregory. examine,

putting them in my information. like when i'm in my pilot among my bed. um yeah, i mean, i like us, how long does up there, you know, on the name of the information. how often together with the b jewel and the on board hasn't been the been, i'm interested be picked up by now, but i'm not sure what time bella was and i'm sure it would have been and i'm in the same beach and, and i just show they've been, and i mean my how often be going, what danny may be getting them ready to be jewel in the for, for wait, and i'm not going to be in some k b, g, b, j wasn't of me. but i'm sure, let me blackmail demands range from $500.00 to

$15000.00. why not? why? i'm going about yeah, i don't, i'm not. i'm not on the mouse on the job. i'm going be, you know, you're not worried about what's happening. what i'm saying, i don't know what i'm mad i don't i'm going on, but about about more than we end up with. i don't really fit on. i mean like i know you're things you're on a but i going to get back to me. i had somebody said, guessing what am i me guy? i just want to comment by on come on me, give me a call at me about single i am not going to get them when i do not know what's going on and i'm on the long and so, you know, i know, i know,

i know i know you're coming up and you're not one, not, not a survivor. i send your i know nathan doing some better for me actually, but i know i'm going to somebody, if not me, this gamma is work with ruthless efficiency. i thought was one of the better. i mean, i know, i think what i'm going to put was an engine them to see the update. yeah. i know. going to be on the same, but i want to go up $1100.00. single mom, i mean, they told me on the,

on the call, but let me know whether that made that number to claim number or not leaving fair. and where do i know or bags charge or something. and what i'm bear up with you and double checking and the journalist simon perry did online fix. extortion wasn't the only illegal business of paris was running. she had another team of people helping her could use fake id cards with which he she or her lieutenant, govern. collected money from western union branches over the name of being i the, the way it works is to collect these transfers. you just need an id card that matches the name on the transfer from overseas. this new type

of crime threw up a challenge for the philippines police. captain mos cinco is a former member of the unit dedicated to cyber crime, 80 percent of our ordinance extortion cases uses social media in there's a huge difference in investigating the additional crime. life i seen was robbery. case of homocide or a case of murder during a up this a huge on the procedure of how you begin to see cyber crime, the people them, that they do not understand that we can just happen to someone see stone. and that that means which the person behind those, which makes him i think another thing is you need social media administrators there outside of philippines. they're not here that weeks, those months, several months for us to wire the information that he saw me mean no,

that's all the information to be able to identify the list of people behind the cyber crime. so for the last decade or so, we've been focusing on making the world more open and connected and we're not done with the world is going to do this. but i used to think that if we just gave people a voice and help some people connect that that would make the world a lot better all by itself. and a lot of ways it has me police teams across the will joint forces to investigate and combat fix extortion. online, one of these collaborations led the philippines, police to launch operations strike back the operation strike up out that the down of the syndicates indicate enrolled in logs. extortion cases,

i don't know, i don't know me. the

elite arrested maria comparison. some of the workers, they seized wiggs, fixed toys and other instruments. the scanners allegedly used me. i was told that she was still active on special ed here in prison and sandra, messaging, her brother, and expect. jason saying,

i'd like to hear your side of the story when you mean come and see you in prison. to sign and surprise, she agreed to see him. the know she was innocent insisting that another woman in the village was the real campaign . and she was just the straight guy. ah, she almost convinced night. i mean, she told me that she can set up. she was crying. what do you think about the man who is just stupid? i told him i told her not to do it again because we've learned your lesson, especially. she could switch, cried she quickly and clearly are quite persuasive and highly comfortable. and dressed and probably associate. coming to strive, writing, maria perez was arrested on charges of robbery and extortion,

but the case was dismissed because no probable cause was found. the philippines national police filed a motion for reconsideration, but it was denied. paris was released for whatever reasons, returning suspect, what those reasons might be. no case. change a cause, and it appears to simply come to free me who the scanner is alleged. power has a close relationship with local police. so don't worry about one of the phone number. i'm not, i'm bad. yeah, i got it. and i'm going to look it up when he is. i don't remember, it's nothing that's in i'm not when i would see that that was the best bug was maybe next. i've been on the mike really had may be less lawyer,

michael will be in the home in the mr. guy behind my my dilemma when i'm up on the w and need club, lay me job. what? i don't know what i don't what i don't me, john. i know mary. a tough for us was quite brazen about the way she'll phrases. she posted pictures of her 15 year old son lying down covered in fires and notes and lots of pictures. she was very open about the money they were making things she personally sees any reason to stop so she can continue getting away with it and all the signs all she's going to carry on getting away. she's the queen effect stores and no fields. villages have finished on her kinda mission like me.

my name is my name is on my job, my plan. abusive branch to that point, if you will, if you can usually just grab a manager, i've only got mine on mine idea on i'll just use the virus indiscriminate get those living in poverty far more vulnerable to the dangers of covert 19 ollie re examined the reasons for this disparity, the social and economic inequality that surround us much deeper and much more

problematic than we thought of. whether lessons learned from the global pandemic could lead to positive change because of the can all hail the locked down, expose the privilege and poverty during a crisis on a jesse. this is polly. despite being in germany, 2nd tier of football and without a single major trophy to its name, it has become one of the world's most iconic teams. and it's all down to their fans . but for them some poly transcends sports. for then, football is about politics, protest and music. least fancy themselves in the vanguard of a global struggle against and a phobia inequality, and racism with over $500.00 supporters clubs outside germany. they are able to spread their message far beyond their handbook home. but some police history is far

from innocent. the club is sending out a warning about the rise in popularity of far right parties like the a, f, d. nazis and fascists have no place in san poly today. i. me a few years to grow in rebels. take control of the bella or unesco world heritage site sacred for millions of orthodox christians. ah. hello. hello hey. this is al jazeera lily from doha. also coming up a can boast of heat wave triggers wells far as such a ravishing parts of southern europe and the united states.