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i've got a sounds, 3rd largest city herat. it means it is the 11th provincial capital to fall in the past week. the armed group gained control of god's knee earlier on thursday because it pushes on towards the capital cobble. it's pointing to us in the u. k to send at least 3600 troops to cobble to help pull out embassy, staff, and local interpreters. washington insist though it's not a full evacuation and the empathy will remain open more from robert bride and cobble given events down in the south of the country and the storming by taliban fighters. right into kandahar itself. this kind of higher is afghanistan is 2nd city. it has, it is right down in the heartland of the taliban country in the south of the country in kandahar province and its neighboring province of helman. because of that, this is basically become a fortress. it's very important for the government to hold onto this even though much of the rest of the provinces gradually fallen away to the taliban. the vice

chairman of samsung has been released from prison in south korea after been granted parole. j y lee was serving a 2 and a half years sentence for bribery. critic said, release just reflect the culture of leniency for corporate bosses. boats being counted in zambia as presidential and parliamentary elections. president edgar longer speaking a controversial 3rd term and what is thought to be an extremely tight race sedans. former president could soon be in the hands of the international criminal court. chief prosecutors and talks with sudanese officials to hand over those wanted for atrocities. and for in the early, 2000 and rain is brooks and much needed relief to fire fighters on the greek island of evian. fire of scorch the northern half of the island, though most of them have now subsided. there you go. you're up to date with the headlines to the our on al jazeera people in power is next. the u. s. is pulling the last of its troops, alphabet gun. after

a 20 years old war to the conflicts install from the taliban is only offensive, claiming proven. were housed by the afghan government, this fight international mediation, if it's what does the future hold special coverage? do 0 me how does north korea, one of the poorest countries in the world managed to evade un sanctions and pay for each nuclear weapons program? the answer is through a secretive government organization in this bureau, $39.00, which obtains foreign exchange fund, kim jones regime in the 2nd of to investigations. how insurance scans, computer fraud and illegal sales keep the money rolling in the

in north korea like game of thrones, that without a dragon's it's a harris, socratic society, and capitalists. and everything is geared to make sure that there's as much cash for kim as, as possible, as who told you not to day tony about getting a shit out or yeah, guess, you know, i guess bureau 39 is involved in everything that makes money for north korea selling arms smuggling of drugs, cancer feeding off us bills. this is about hundreds of millions of dollars a year. turn the tires and everything your honeymoon.

as a make dollars the and the germany. until a few years ago, the north korean state insurance company k and i see had a branch in an innocuous looking apartment block here fix. north korean officials may deals with major european insurance companies at home. we have all the top one on hand, john ball, paul one and then told me that on how you don't know them yet. it was all helicopter to russia to hit i thought a my a got some technical hire somebody on his

hallway to me. that is all k campbell, my son lloyd, the younger lloyd, the palmer campbell with them and they're paying you guys are more all you all are more the last you can say that he goes to wind down. they're competing the parish kevin guy or is he doesn't guy so helicopter of sympathetic me that an eating month element month was one case. among many in 2015 the european union put the north korean insurance company on their sanctions list. the accusation co financing of the nuclear weapons program through bureau. $39.00 experts estimate that with crashed helicopters and similar tricks, the kim regime and several $100000000.00. but how does the kim regime

manage to transfer the millions it makes to pyongyang? the answer is simple. through diplomatic channels, i grew up with the following and it shows how much it was. you don't have to know. i don't know what it is that i'm going to general who gave is true for her payroll. subject was you do you want to buy and, you know, korea uses its worldwide network of embassies to ferry money back to pyongyang in north korea. and officials enjoying diplomatic community carried money in cash. and that's like baggage, a simple but efficient way to ensure the cash flow doesn't stop. well, nursing the embassies have a different ethic function, but that's often mainly ceremonial. but there to function is financial. it's also illegal, mainly screen diplomats are basically cas carriers for kim their into,

for their, their businessman. they may be direct lawrence and maybe reverend smugglers, but they carry a different passport. so contention berlin, right in the middle of the city lies the north, korean embassy. the north koreans have been renting out one of the buildings as a hostile for tourists. they've been earnings $38000.00 euros per month in rent. using embassy grounds for such activities is against diplomatic practices and contravene un and e u sanctions. like any other country, the main goal of the embassies is to serve the state in the north korean states priorities in particular. so the co sanction, so, so comprehensive. now, much of the activities conducted in these embassies may be prohibited providing

military supplies, training, and much of that has been done through north korea's embassies, particularly in africa and the middle east side of all the countries in the middle east. currently, syrian, our republic has the greatest levels of prohibited cooperation with north korean military entities. half his ascent, the father of the current theory and death point, and kim were friends from the 1900 sixty's own back then the north koreans helped the syrians during the war against israel and supplied them with weapons and ammunition. an important source of income right up to, to day. using tactics similar to those of 18th century pirates bureau, $39.00 runs ship under full flags and fate names. according to the un, north korea has thus managed to send large numbers of weapons to syria.

between 20122017, at least 40 shipments from north korea passed through the suez canal. but in 2018, the us managed to have one of them intercepted. so we found something called go on its way to syria. these were acid resistance tiles involves which could be used in chemical weapons development, but also missile fuel is highly corrosive. such tiles could be used for ballistic missile program as well. the bill of lading clearly gave has an address in syria established from the company for syria scientific studies research center. the s s i'll see which is responsible for serious ballistic missile and chemical weapons development program. the russians did in the chemical weapons produced in

these laborious trees, who have been used by serious dictator against his own people for years and many of those who died in agony foaming at the matter. a little known fact was that the syrian chemical weapons program was created with the help of north korean technicians. and the scientists some of these sites with armed by the united states . the purpose or actions tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production spread and use of chemical weapons. when the, the american bomb d m to chemical laboratories, they bumped in north korea or whether they knew their bombing, the trains. i don't know, but they did s work screen. the presence in syria is really much and the report is under appreciate it. one 3rd of all buildings and

syria has been destroyed, attract, and a business opportunity. the theory and regime hopes for billions from international donors for the reconstruction of the country, the necessary work brigades to come from north korea. the 2 countries signed a contract at a meeting in june 2019 deals between death bought the money this earned by office 39. it goes straight into the coffers system leadership. it is used on the one hand to provide for luxury items. it is used to pay for the, the mercedes benz car that's somehow found their way into the korea despite the sanctions. but it also, it is also used and this is probably more important to deliver the best hackers. you can, you can train as early estimate, eighty's came and young, ill started training the most talent of children to become cyber hackers. they're

also good money earners. ransomware, like the one across fires, for example, is considered to come from the north koreans. it is the biggest cyber attack the world has ever seen. hundreds of thousands of computers around the world in about $150.00 countries rendered useless. now the u. s. government is publicly placing the blame for that cyber result uniquely dubbed, want to cry squarely on kim jong, owns army of hackers in so computer specialists, a hot on the heels of north korean hackers. simon choy works as a consultant for south korean intelligence agencies. the washing and the quarter to know what i'm going to talk to, connie june, and then we'll get back with you and i will talk to them. and then we'll keep longer that i'm going to by the next day on each. so youngel the turn in some quantity experts estimate that between 61300 hackers works for kim

or suppose all were all coming up on a king on a team. so they get a little daughter attending on tuesday. i assume you guys have to con it us or not . when we come in and do that in wrong, can you call me on a to me when i come by log in. i wanna know she got to pay way sick. what i would, should all experts estimate that up to $2000000000.00 have been stolen by young, highly trained north korean hackers. north korea has developed an efficient education system for its upper middle class. here at young young middle school, the children who will later be computer specialist, scientists and engineers. a trained to shape the future of the country to meet your highly. and i'm sure the, but i want to the, and i guess thinking the chinese,

i guess, rather fusions also learn how to use computers. they have access to a very limited north korean version of the internet. uncensored variety is strictly forbidden. north korea's rulers know that once the doors to the digital world have been thrown open, they can never be shot again. but despite all precautions in 27, north korea face the 1st digital data leak in its history. the data of pure young municipal registry with more than 2000000 entries. professor brighter obtained a copy and is currently analyzing it using special software. we never have this kind of up to date information effort. if you want to understand the system to resume the party, you can actually go about analyzing and mapping chung for 1st time and we're no

longer dependent. and it goes on people who tell us where all the buildings are. we can actually now she who is inside to buildings with companies that are well departments there are and re, should locate him the day to prove the main building of bureau. 39 is close to the seat of power, right in the middle of the p. o. n, just a stone's throw away from the headquarters of the workers party. it's divided into 6 main departments and employ several 1000 people in pune young alone. they have their own fleet vehicles, kindergartens, a golf course, an ostrich farm, and even their own bank. these 6 main departments are in turn responsible for hundreds of individual companies throughout north korea. they control ion or, and diamond mines, jewelry,

factories and textile companies. they're mainly specialized in exporting good to broad. other companies in the bureau and foreign exchange to forced labor smuggling and insurance fraud. but one rule applies to all the name bureau. 39 is never mentioned outside north korea. so it remains invisible. impossible for un sanctions monitors to detect me. oh chinese have already had you realize it for you guys, you will, you will know what you call those you to your homes here and i was told around horror as we get to go on the grounds to have schools. you guys get there by hong kong. we'll

come lazy, mitchell. milton, with his own along to the cause on my tongue tires and everything on you would, he hadn't eaten as i make dollars. i know korea is changing. an impoverished socialist state has turned into a country with a highly flexible shadow economy. in many ways, north career is run like a commercial company. all that matters is cash that came. the work is here and no longer slaving away for the revolution. but for the wealth of dan, nita and his cronies, the gap between rich and poor is widening. while the population in pyongyang enjoys a constantly growing prosperity. 40 percent of the rural population still suffer from the nutrition. what a database shows beyond any doubt,

instead of asserting not only exists now we can prove what it does, it owns companies, it operates these companies. and as far as all kinds of things. and that is actually quite and important development in understanding how north korea managers to earn money above. we know know exactly through what kind of companies office 39 dust is. qindzhong. soak silk spending mill named after kim jong owns grandmother. a model factory. 1600 workers are employed here. most of them women. they sought process and boil the cocoons of the soap worms to obtain the precious yon. the soap wounds come from a province south of pyongyang, about $200.00 tons of phil could produce cheer every year. a luxury product

expensive and labor intensive, the factories entire production is intended for export abroad, but the supervisors are unwilling to disclose who the foreign customers are. i'm not sure anymore. who suffers under those ations? it's a hassle, i'm sure for their friends, but i do find ways around it. one of the problems is at night, or china, nor russia is helping and enforcing the sanctions chromosomes. course it, it's and say they don't even tell you what's going on and ends on the chrome, chrome, linda, and so you got the coupon to move shebaway to my mom. sit on it. what are you going to a 100 mission member number one moment because he had to come in to t o. sometimes you know when people are people common factory textiles. the

2nd most important north korean export product after comb with home. now the thing is she bought in then you put in an order that was to happen from colorado springs. she will be on board go for hold on please. ready dan, dawn, china, north korea gateway to the world. and a symbol of how futile the un efforts are to dry out can sources of cash.

the final korean friendship, french across the yahoo river. it's one of the few ways to enter or leave north korea every day, trucks q in front of the custom's checkpoint smugglers traders and also the agents and entrepreneurs of bureau. 39. they're all hoping for a quick deal here. china is by far north korea is most important trading partner. financial experts estimate that 90 percent of north korea's exports go to its powerful neighbor in the north. thousands of north koreans is said to work in textile factories in the region disguised as businessmen and equipped with hidden cameras. we film in one of the factories, chinese textile companies higher north koreans, because their wages are lower than those of chinese workers. the seamstresses,

work day and night, often sleep on the company premises. they're likely to be locked up for years, far away from their families. together with a team of labor lawyers, trade x data specialists, ramco broker tries to find out whether a europe in brands work with chinese companies that directly or indirectly employ north koreans who manage to prove the existence of a significant amount of nor screen slave labor. in the supply chain of some of the world's leading clothing companies. but more than that, chinese factories outsource to north korean centuries in north korea. basically in europe and in the u. s, we've come to an agreement that we no longer wish to find slave labor or child labor in our supply chains. but if you knew closer, i saw these producers, you find it sometimes up to 90 percent or for production does not take place in

china. it does not take place in the factories where the european and the american auditors come to check where they're working. conditions are decent. yes, they are in those factories, but that's only worth 10 percent of the products are snake. the other 19 percent comes from, or for you. broaches team investigated one chinese textile company more closely. it's called von dest. their list of customers rates like a who's who, of international fashion brands. the website features a man's jacket. next to it, it says korean imported the buttons, carry a label, a mani genes using trade databases, brokers, teen analyzed, long desks, business relations between 2013 and 20. 19 the databases use customs data showing which good sent back and forth between companies in different countries. china cents the material to make certain types of clothes to north korea. one love

there, the ship beck in the same container. and then you have finished close dose close are again shipped to say to airlines or to germany or to america. and from there, they're distributed into our stores, between 2013 and december, 2016, long dest sent around $10000000.00 worth of fabrics and raw materials to north korea. during the same period, phone, dest received finished garments worth almost $25000000.00 from north korea. costumes classify textiles by so called h s. codes. we take a closer look at h. s. code 62. 0 one. it stands for mens anoraks and jackets like, via money jacket on the website. between 2013 and december 2016, bon dest imported garments worth $12000000.00. with this code from north korea. the

same code is also used for deliveries from von desk to europe, and the us among the customers. a money, a money jacket that look exactly like the one on bone dest website can also be bought in europe. this one costs 219 euros. it can't be proven beyond doubt whether garments like this one are made in north korea, but can it be ruled out? we ask the fashion brands a money, right? we confirmed that phone, dest is one of our suppliers, and as such, is regularly subject to checks and inspections. the result of these checks being the no finished products and manufactured in north korea, like all our suppliers. it's also required to declare which sub contractors it uses and where these are concerned. it's also the case that none are in north korea.

we've also contact to advance desk and writing. the company offered no explanation as to why and to what extent it trades with north korea. in one thing can be sent for certain. well known fashion brands have their goods manufactured by a chinese company that co operate with north korea. a country where workers have no rights where human life counts for nothing. broaches investigation shows that this is not an isolated incident. for years and years we've heard testimony from north korean s k fees, who were in concentration came today, have been forced to produce textiles for the export market. and i think for the 1st time i've been able to corroborate that through an external source. i'm not through a testimony in this database. i found the department bureaucratic department that is responsible for managing the production of textiles for one of the concentration

camps. as i turned out, it means that we only by close produced by 4 slavers maybe even slave labor. we may even buy clothes all through europe in america that was made in concentration. camps by people never see the light of day. again, these are the kinds of camps that you don't leaf until your death. that is just to her reflect to, to put in worse and were completed. i hundreds of thousands of men and women secretly ensure the survival of the dictatorship, their futures, a sacrifice for the luxury of the regime. and for our prosperity, qindzhong on bands his country like company. his bureau, 39 does business with everything. and everyone,

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