the dams are still overflowing, and they're right where the waters are rising almost every day. it's been a glorious day sunshine and that gives a lot of people some hope that things will quite and down. but however, when we're hearing right now the death tones in the last few days, that number has risen from that age to more than 50 entire herds of animals have been washed away. farmlands. thousands and thousands of textures of rice, fields and own fields have been submerged by water. a lot of promise are telling us that the horn feels and the rise is completely destroyed. so the harvest for the season and their food supply for the next before the next plenty season is completely gone. a rescue operation is underway to return dozens of well stranded on a beach in australia back into seen the pods of 230 pilot whales got stuck on the west coast of the island states of tasmania on wednesday. but only 35 survived. the dead whales will be tested to determine if toxins contributed to them getting stranded.

ah, hello, are you watching out 0? these are the headlines this our, the you commission says many russian men are trying to leave the country. that's after president vladimir putin announced plans to draft 300000 new troops to help the fight in ukraine. the kremlin says reports of the mass exodus are exaggerated. meanwhile, hundreds of russian, ann ukrainian soldiers have been released in a prisoner's swab. it's the largest exchange since the war began. 10 foreigners fighting for ukraine have also been freed through a deal mediated by saudi arabia. gabriel, alexander has more now from ki. any soldiers would have been considered a victory for ukrainians, but this is particularly bitter sweet for them if you will use that terminology because of who they were. more than the majority of these $215.00 prisoners that

were released were soldiers, as we mentioned, from the as of regiment that held out for weeks and weeks at the as will stall, a steel planted mario pool, beer considered and had been considered for many months found national heroes for what many ukrainians consider their incredible bravery. during the early and middle stages of this war, ukraine's president is called on the un to punish russia for invading his country. the latter mi zelinski urged world ladies to strip moscow of its vote in international institutions as well as it's un security council. they turn in other news, pakistan's, former prime minister in mankind, has appeared in court, can says he will apologize for threatening a judicial officer after being charged with contempt of court. several villages had been destroyed in northern nigeria after flash floods breached through dams. at least 38 people had been killed. thousands had been forced from their homes. and

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thought a welcome to the stream, i'm josh rushing said again for me. okay. the you in is aiming to eradicate modern slavery worldwide by 2030 in child slavery by 2025. but the number of people in, during, forced labor and forced marriage is actually on the rise. that's according to a new report by the u. n. and an anti slavery in cio. so today we're asking what action is needed to stamp out modern slavery? ah, joining us to discuss from new york we have grace forest. she's the founded director of walk free the indio that worked with the un on the new report. also in new york at the moment as sophie ot in day. she is the founder of a saudi, an organization that supports the fibers of trafficking. she's also the ceo with the global fun to end modern slavery. and we have in toronto,

mat friedman who's the founder and ceo of the medical club, an organization working to combat slavery within the private sector. one more seed at the table that you, you that are watching on youtube. see the box over there. we have a live producer waiting to get your comments to me so i can get them to our guests . so help me out. be a part of this shell. i'll check your tube here in a minute. we'll, we'll get some of your questions in okay. in the meantime, let's begin with grace grace. tell us about the report. what were you expecting? what were you surprised by? look, i think are the last few years we've been living 3 times of really unprecedented crises. and while for many people, it was the 1st time they considered the impact of forced labor in psych level supply chains. the us, we really sold the cove at 19 pandemic as exposing the vulnerability of our global economy, saying a 10000000 person increase from our previous report to our current one was very shocking that it's an increased the size of the population of grace funding some

28000000 people living in forced labor and 22000000 people living in force marriages. the increase in forced labor is driven entirely due to the private economy, into global supply chains of the goods we buy and use every single day. shockingly, children make up some 25 percent of the overall figure. women and girls remain disproportionately impacted. and we're now looking down the barrel of 50000000 people living in mountain slavery on any given day, as well as the world late is not really doing enough to step up and ending it. right, thank you. i'm. i'm curious about the way we defined this. maybe i can bring mat in here because what we're talking about is force labor and forced marriage. um, i know that a lot of people might think about slavery the way it was a 150 years ago, and they think that doesn't exist now. but can, matt, can you help us with the definition? what does modern slavery look like? modern slavery is basically a situation where a person is, tristan deceived into

a scenario where they're taken away from their community in force to work. and often they don't get paid. the force marriage side of the equation is basically an individual who is married at a very young age and doesn't consent or somebody who's forced into a marriage whereby when they get there, it's not kind of a traditional marriage that we would kind of say where there's love and affection and everything else, they're basically brought in the family to, to kind of support the other family members in that such situation. the reason why they put modern next to the word slavery is because the slavery of today is different from the slavery of a 150 years ago. there are a whole different set of different types of indicators that are used to measure it through auditing through supply chains and so forth. and as a result of that, we have kind of to look at this a little bit different than we have in modern slavery. or slavery that we had in years past. and sophie, you'd come this week from well to the you in ga,

to, to talk about this issue can, can you tell me how this is being received there? is there a surprise there at the, i guess the big jump that this report is kind of the top line of this report is how many more people we're now talking about here? yes, definitely the jump is something that people are shocked about. and i think that 2 sets of people are right. there's those of us who walk with frontline organization financial. i don't get a vision, horrible news knowing that the numbers are higher than what can be detected or are currently being detected. then of course tanks to walk free week, we are now seeing those numbers identified, but then we have our whole new group which is essentially not we, we are basically introducing this to them. and that's why they're holla ins. piece is really important, but there are so many people who we are basically introducing this concept to. i'm them having been number 50000000 that really shocked because most people just don't

feed this issue every day or don't time can pay t math to be able to interact with the team though, is that, you know, would make them confronted. and oh, richard, owner. oh, or had a, let's go grace matt and then i'm gonna share a piece of video with you. great. go for it. no, i was just going to share that. the other thing that people was shocked by is that modern slavery cuts across geographic, ethnic religious lines. it is happening in every part of the world. it is happening here in the united states. it literally is something that is a truly global issue with vulnerability that actually sits with a 50 percent of false lay back hastens happening in middle to high income country. so the misconception that it can happen over there, not that there is any such thing as an over there, and a globalized world, is completely false. this is happening in every corner of the globe and is deeply underpinning our global economy. yeah, matt, before i go to you, i want to bring in a couple of voices from our you tube audience. mr. thomas, for it says, slavery is alive and well, even in the usa, which,

where you were just saying, grace. and he makes the point that the u. s. constitution says, no slavery shall exist except for lawful conviction. will guess what? or some people into plead hills by threats dot dot dot. and actually i interviewed the number 2 guy in the alabama prison system and asked him about force labor and how can you do this? and he explicitly answered because of the 13th amendment, which most people think of as prohibiting slavery. but he was talking about the 2nd part that actually constitutionally permits slavery in the united states. and i think a lot of people would be surprised that that's actually a thing here. matt, what were you going to say? i was just gonna say, even though the number went from 40 to 50000000, even when 10 years ago, we were talking about 21000000 and then 35800000 or whatever. i present to all different audiences to corporations, to banks, to faith based groups, to the general public. and everybody shocked by this, they really just cannot get their head around the fact that we're even using

terminology like slavery. and i think the biggest issue that we're facing is just a lack of general awareness. people don't know about the issue, the not gonna care. they don't care, they're not going to do anything. and i want to share a piece of video with you. now this is from a show on al jazeera, called 101 east. it's an investigative documentary style show that covers asia. and i, what i like about this particular clip is if you wonder how people get caught up in this, here's an inside look married with a child and working in the financial securities industry in china. in late 2020 lou quit his job to learn how to run a business travelling to cambodia to help manage a friends restaurant, concierge with holly middle, i teach you how to sanders ha ties. how because of that eat. the restaurant closed in lieu was stranded and that's when a regular customer offered him a job. he'd would great excepting to keep in and cancel kind of how you care to

that. now make a yay. maybe he van dolah validate. so natalie, toyota casey, were but on arriving at the company, he discovered he being sold to a scan syndicate. i just couple more voices from our you to body. and because i want these guys to keep contributing, this says this channels from guitar and covers modern slavery. are you guys really, aren't you ashamed to be covering this topic? well, no, we're not. guitars had issues with those interesting where i'm kicked off. yeah, there is certainly one place ah, ah holy, let's talk about guitar. and i also want to ask you grace one. yes. talk about talk to though i'm wondering what do you attribute the jump to what, why are the numbers bigger now than 5 years ago? we have been able to create a comparative estimate, the last one. so unlike other estimates that do exist in the u. n. system,

we are able to honor quickly say that there has been an increase in modern slavery around the walls. just want to make that clear in case anyone was wondering if it was true to population size, it is not okay. we put this down to really the situation of compounding crises that we've been living through for the last number of years from the coven. 19 pandemic . to conflict and crisis situations like distress migration, as well as climate change. we know that the world's most vulnerable people are being hit, hardest and fastest. and that mass supply chain disruption has actually led to less safety and less visibility. but people in global supply chains and auditing, like the incredible work that we've heard about matt and things that actually can protect people in the supply chains have not been able to happen due to restrictions equally. we know that there's massive vulnerability in the migration system. people being trapped overseas that were, for example, a 1000000 lank and trapped overseas inside of the pandemic. unable to get home excluded from national health plans, all not being paid. we'll talking about massive numbers here. and let me pivot from

that into guitar. just to be clear, low this global figure we're talking about is an increase globally. it doesn't have country breakdown, but i would like to talk about guitar, because migrant work of vulnerability is something that is a global narrative for this estimate migrant workers. a 3 times more likely to experience forced labor the no margaret workers, despite the fact they only represent 5 percent of the globe workforce. that was the story we just saw. as you showed on here, migrant workers, less able to be protected, often having the passports were moved, creating further situations of vulnerability, making it harder for people to leave. and you know, it is good that we took back to our because the faith woke up is happening this year and that stadium has been built using force labor. now, katara has introduced laws in this time that can protect migrant workers. and now some of the strongest laws within the region, but it's important to note that those laws, they have a very, very strong reason and for a very, a very high level of margaret work ability and molten slavery vulnerability. yeah, a little bit about the video that you put up there or go ahead i,

i tell you what messenger already going. why don't you take it and then we'll come to you next. ok. go fort matter. so that video is showing a new type of human trafficking that we hadn't had much exposure to. the last 6 months about 30 percent of my time is focused on this. so kind of young educated people from taiwan, hong kong china, malaysia, singapore are being tricked and deceived into going to cambodia when they get there . they think they have a good casino job that's going to pay them $34000.00 a month. but what happens instead is they're put into the scam centers where for 14 hours they have to sit in front of a computer and basically scam people out of their money. if they don't, they get beaten, they get tortured, they get taser. and so you have literally hundreds of people in this situation. so to add insult to injury, it's bad enough to be traffic, but to be trafficked into a situation where you're basically stealing from people from your own country. it's just a terrible, horrible new incarnation of trafficking. and this came out of the whole situation

as well. but the criminals were sitting round and haven't even do. they went on mine. they realized how easy it was to scam. and then they realized that had a lot of victims, they could basically get a lot more money. wow. and so what did you want to add? no, i just wanted to add on to some of the things that they're for stocking around my gun. i mean, this is something that is quite, i would say that on my duty to of the migrant workers, you know, start talking about migrant workers from african countries from kanga, from uganda who i've been abused by what female and male. and one of the things that when we talk about this issue better, better than way we go back to the narrative. and now when there's that, when we talk about issues so easy for people to say to not address the root of kings like mica and walk on why my current phone double. and the fact that pony sees that you know,

for you to actually resist. we start talking about the root things better. if you have passwords that when you walk into an app, what it gets dumped on, you walk, you can be able to walk, you can be able to advocate for you. i probably don't have those 5 sports. it takes a long time, i don't have, you know, the right to be able to speak up even when that when, when you're not this system is really import being laws that top you from walking in unemployment, right? the fact that, you know, one, the women are moving and men are moving out, that is all to be and lack of employment in countries. and some of the things spectrum talk about in terms of what should be done is why are these people not being in back country? why they move? right. well, if they know that this is what you're going to happen to them, why are they moving? and that's what we need to do, got people so long as people cannot be able to take care of that family and that community. they are coming to the places where they think based power and the

ability for them to take out their family. and we need to address these issues, not just the level back to also ask why we're comfortable with the fact that, you know, 2nd people have more than, especially when it comes to things like migration. so why do you make such a strong point about migration and about why they're migrating? i want to share another piece of video with you did. this is what happened since of migrates. when they came to america, they cross border and then they were ship by governors from texas and florida to different parts of the country. really just to be used as political ponce here, checked us up. how do we stop this campaign, abusing human beings as human cargo and human trafficking by the governor of texas and the governor of florida is again just so jesus would be very ashamed of these 2 governors. if he saw how they were treating refugees, says jesus and his family refugees, once that is just to your point though,

that the migrants are the, the most vulnerable and that is happening in every part of the world. but so if you want to come back to you and ask about our women particularly vulnerable, and if so, how i think again we go back to the show. wonder ability to why are we men vulnerable? we are a sharp gender quality is not something that is new to us. i think sometimes when you talk about more than slavery and we talk about it being independent of that issue, we would then ask that question. why are people on board the reality that for long as we have in any sort of unique data, gender equality in this case makes women more vulnerable as a result of the issues better? because we've been doing that, i wonder what i've spoken about the facts that you encounter, like where i come from, the fact that women don't come, not be able to own land means they come to be able to access my be it means that

they can for example, be able to work for access investment to be able to start, to be able to get, to be able to stand by them. so women proportionally affected result of gender equality. and before want to bend reverse, we don't have to think about barry burns. why gender quality exists? and we have to think about why we need to stamp out. maybe you could just make, we met, i got a small one that i bought. so yes, i think that part was quite clear. the fact that can be run issue in defense that you'll see that women are also tracked in very, very specific, you know, in a very, very specific stream. so you can walk right now on that women are supposed to do 2nd walk means that when that traffic, that traffic specifically in the walk that, that pre disposed to do either result of that gender them to men. because we see

from the reports, of course that construction comes to construction, you have more me, and then you have women. so of course, when we're discussing this issue, we cannot address the issue. we have to address all of the issues that in perfect we did, we have some more comments from our framed community. i want to 1st go to youtube, where angela perry has said it's important to continue highlighting and increasing awareness surrounding gender class and racial inequalities. doing so help shed ally on human rights, stripped on vulnerable populations, and we were talking about sex trafficking. there we have a journalist, elizabeth cells are who sent us a video comment from lima, peru for the most shocking things i had seen reporting on why there is slavery, if this don't psychologically back on her way. i remember at pier can years on the kia who was 16 exploited the have mother huffman in the, for the safety. so federal and when i talked to her she thing, their uncle volta loading a share. she said she wanted to hit al fair,

go back to her seat the and create her own brother disk it believe that 6 of these potential what the only possible official for hair so gross. i think she really talked about the cycle of this and how damaging this can be on the people who feel trapped in and they can't get out of it. i, i, i also, i'm hoping you'll touch on here. why is forced marriage included under slavery? yeah, i just want to quickly finish off on sophie's point, which i agree with so vehemently that modern slavery should not be treated f r is an issue that happens in isolation. it's an inter sectional issue with other global crises, both the driver of global crises and also a symptom of global crises. and i think that just covering off on the rights of the girl often in terms of christ. that's it. the 1st person to lose that, right, is the woman of the girl. the 1st person to go hungry is the woman of the girl. the 1st person to be considered as an economic burden is a woman or

a girl. and this leads us to force marriage and weiss included in the number. so we define welton slavery as the systematic removal of a person's freedom where one person is exported by another. the personal financial gain. and often false marriage is do come with an economic tag. all girls being an economic that and we are not counting a very narrow definition of force marriage in this estimate. why counting people who did not consent for god ah, began to programming now to go straight to new york, where the un security council meeting is holding a meeting of foreign ministers that says that u. s. secretary of state and ne, blinking speaking. now let's lessen him. on the kind of mr sector, general, thank you for your determination and the moral clarity that you brought to ending is fertile war and defending the one's core principles. and also for your personal engagement in securing the vital black sea route for grain to flow. once again from ukraine, a mr. con,

we are grateful for the efforts of the office of the prosecutor to investigate objectively and professionally the atrocities being committed in ukraine by russian forces, and afford support for and coordination with ukrainian investigators and prosecutors . we hear a lot about the divisions among countries of the united nations. but recently, what is striking is the remarkable unity among members states when it comes to rushes, one ukraine, leaders from countries developing and developed big and small north and south have spoken the general assembly about the consequences of this war and the need to end it. and they pulled on all of us to reaffirm our commitment to the un charter and its core principles including sovereignty, territorial integrity, human rights. even

a number of nations that maintain close ties with moscow have said publicly that they have serious questions and concerns about president putin's ongoing invasion rather than change course. however, president putin has doubled down, choosing not to end the war, but to expand it, not to pull troops back, but to call 300000 additional troops up. not to ease tensions, but to escalate them through the threat of nuclear weapons. not to work toward a diplomatic solution, but to render such a solution impossible. by seeking to antics more ukrainian territory through sham referendum. the president putin picked this week as most of the world gathers at the united nations to add fuel to the fire that he started, shows his utter contempt for the un charter for the general assembly. and for this council, the very international order that we have gathered here to uphold,

is being shredded before our eyes. we cannot, we will not allow president putin to get away with it. defending ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity is about much more than standing up for one nation's right to choose his own path. fundamental is that right is it's also about protecting an international order where no nation can redraw the borders of another by force. if we fail to defend this principle, when the kremlin is so flagrantly violating it, we send a message to aggressors everywhere that they can ignore a to we put every country at risk. we open the door to a less secure, a less peaceful world. we see what that world looks like in the parts of ukraine, controlled by russian forces wherever the russian tide recedes. we discover the har

that's left in its wake. i had a window into that hard myself when i traveled to have been just a few weeks ago to meet with ukrainian investigators who are compiling evidence of war crimes committed there. i saw a close, the gaping holes left in residential buildings by russian shelling indiscriminate at best intentional. at worse as we assemble here, cranium and international investigators continued to exit bodies outside of his him . a city russian forces controlled for 6 months before they were driven out by ukrainian counter offensive. one site contained some 440 unmarked graves. a number of the bodies under there so far, reportedly showed signs of torture, including one victim with broken arms and a rope around his neck. survivors accounts are also emerging, including a man who described being tortured by russian forces for a dozen days,

during which is interrogated, repeatedly electrocuted him. and in his words, and i quote, beat me to the point where i didn't feel anything and quote, these are not the acts of rog units. they put a clear pattern across the territory controlled by russian forces. this is one of the many reasons that we support a range of national and international efforts to collect and examine the mounting evidence of war crimes and ukraine. we must hold the perpetrators accountable for these crimes. it's also one of the reasons why more than 40 nations have come together to help the ukranian. people defend themselves, a right that is enshrined an article $51.00 of the united nations charter. the more setbacks russian forces endure on the battlefield. the greater the pain they are inflicting on ukrainian civilians. russia attacks on dance on bridges on power stations, on hospitals, on other civilian infrastructure,

are increasing constituting abrasion, violation of international humanitarian law. this week, president putin said that russia would not hesitate to use, and i quote, all weapon systems available and quote, in response to a threat to its charge all integrity. the threat that is all the more medicine given russians intention to antics large slots of ukraine in the days ahead. when that's complete, we can expect president boot will claim any ukranian effort to liberate this land as an attack on so called russian territory. this from a country that in january of this year in this place, joined other permanent members of the security council in signing a statement affirming that and i quote, nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought yet. another example of how russia violates the commitments has made before this body. and yet another

reason why nobody should take russia at its word today. every council member should send a clear message that these reckless nuclear threats must stop immediately. russia's effort to alex more ukrainian territory is another dangerous escalation, as well as a repudiation of diplomacy. it is even more alarming when coupled with the filtration operation that russian forces have been carrying out across parts of ukraine that they control. now this is a diabolical strategy, violently uploading thousands of ukrainians bus in russian st. place the call a vote, manipulate the results to show near humanity, sport for joining the russian federation. this is right out of the crimea playbook . as with crimea, it's imperative that every member of this council and for that matter, every member of the.