should they use chemical weapons again. it follows military action by america, britain and france, targeting three weapons sites with more than 100 missiles. president trump said the air—strikes were perfectly executed and tweeted "mission accomplished". prime minister theresa may says britain has no intention of toppling assad or intervening more widely in the war. the un security council has rejected a russian call to condemn the missile strikes against syria by western powers. the un secretary general has urged restraint — asking all sides to avoid acts that could escalate matters the russian ambassador to the un has called the strikes a blatant disregard of international law, with attacks carried out even before international inspectors began investigating the alleged gas attack in douma. now on bbc news. a bbc wales investigation goes on the trail of human traffickers who treat their victims like slaves

and force them into a life of misery working as cleaners in the welsh capital. a people trafficker is caught on camera by undercover police. another is on his way to make money from modern—day slavery in wales. this victim was beaten and forced to work for a pittance in the shadows of the senedd. here, two men were forced work as cleaners. inside, their boss, human trafficker roman feko, is all smiles. the company that hired him had no idea he was hiding a shocking secret. roman feko is significant. he's someone who has been previously convicted of a double murder

of trafficked victims in the czech republic and the sentence was 2a years and he served 16 in a czech prison prior to coming here. feko‘s accomplice in cardiff was his brother—in—law, ladislav fedak. this is an organised crime group, part of the group based here in cardiff, the other part in the czech republic, and the recruiters in the czech republic were looking for for males who were down on their luck. fedak and feko owned cleaning companies in cardiff. four of their workers told police how they were forced to work. this man was beaten and paid just £100 a month. they were running a slavery operation, they were running an operation to make money on the backs of others. next to drug trafficking, modern day slavery is thought to be the world's most lucrative crime.

and it's a trade that is very much alive here on the streets of wales. last year around 200 men, women and children were identified by police as potential victims. but there could be hundreds more hidden in communities across wales. as well as human trafficking and modern day slavery there's also other forms of labour exploitation happening in wales. we have come to pill, one of the most deprived and diverse parts of newport, where there's someone offering to supply cheap labour, "cheap" as in rip—off rates. we're sending an undercover journalist to meet him. i'm posing as a businessman. i buy and renovate old or dilapidated properties. i need grafters, labourers. i want them to go in and clear out these properties. it's hard, tough work. the contact is asked to meet at his minimarket.

his name is bakthyar. he's told me that as well as running a shop, he has a car wash, as well. 0ur undercover businessman has told him he needs at least ten men for thejob. they should each be getting around £80 a day. what is the price for one man for one day that i must pay? normally eight o'clock to six o'clock, monday to saturday. £70. for one man, 70? because i get you the boys and bring them to you, everything. you bring them to me? yes, i give them a lift and everything, 20 for me means i spend £5 each on them, so 15 is going to be left for me. that's true for you. so the workers only get £50 a day, that's below the legal minimum wage. and he would make almost £1000 a week from the deal.

how old they are? from 30, to 40. but don't tell them how much you paying me. of course not. see you next week. what he's offering us is against employment law. it's greed that is funding this activity. people can do the sums, they all know the minimum wage is, they know how much the living wage is, they know what a reasonable wage is for thatjob, all they are doing is fuelling this sort of exploitation. stephen chapman is leading the fight against slavery and labour exploitation in wales. in the last six years there's been a 300% rise in reported trafficking and slavery cases across the uk. this has been low risk, high reward for the criminals. what we have now got to do is make it high risk for them and, and no reward. but traffickers fedak

and feko took the risk. one of their victims was bought and sold into slavery in cardiff. i'm heading to the czech republic to find him. over an hour's drive from prague is the region of hradek kralove. this is where it all started. victims were found often on the streets of czech towns, in some were even homeless. they were the kind of people who no one go looking for when they disappeared to the uk. but they were all down on their luck and they fell for the same old lies, the promise of a better life in cardiff. i'm meeting the first of their victims to break his silence, he's a father in his forties. he's asked us not to identify him. translation: i was living in a boarding house but when my welfare benefits were cut i couldn't stay there anymore, so i was in a really bad situation and then i had this offer to go to the uk.

he had the right to work in the uk. but no idea that he'd been bought and sold by criminals. i was cleaning trains and industrial kitchens. i was supposed to get £1,100 a month but in the end i was only getting £300. in cardiff, identification papers were taken from the victims. translation: at first i could go out a little bit. but after my room mates started cleaning these offices in cardiff bay they started locking the house so i couldn't leave the house until they got back. he says months of mental cruelty broke him. translation: i learned feko had actually bought me, i realised he'd bought me like a piece of furniture. when feko himself told me that he bought me for 700 euros so i should behave in accordance with that...

what i did was i got drunk, and i tried to commit suicide. ijumped off a bridge and i woke up in hospital where i talked to the police. that led to the arrest of fedak and feko and a trial at this court in this court in hradec kralove. we were allowed to film inside. why did you force men to work as slaves in the uk? how many men do you buy and sell as slaves? brought to the court in chains, charged with human trafficking after a joint investigation between south wales and czech police. both deny any wrongdoing. translation: i cried when the judge read my testimony. it is not a very good feeling. he had fallen victim to slavery. but we've discovered labour exploitation is also happening under our noses. in newport, our undercover

businessman is going back to meet bakhtyar, who's hiked his prices. he now wants £85 a day for each worker. but after his cut, the labourers still wouldn't get the legal rate. so what if they complain? i put somebody there everybody listen to them. them boys are desperate for money. they hungry, they hungry. very, too much, every night i go to someone's, i can't... i haven't seen him yet, if i told him, bring five, ten people from romania, he bring, you know what i mean. fresh. yeah, fresh, don't know nothing, work hard but no speak english so we take someone with them, you know. i bring before, i bring four people. from romania?

yeah. all right, man. bakhtyar is a busy man, running a shop, offering to sell us cheap labour, and then there's this place, his car wash in the gwent valleys. so how much is he paying the workers here? we are sending in a romanian journalist undercover. i'm telling the people running the car washes that i've just arrived in wales. i look for work, is boss here? how much pay, how many hours? it's even less than bathkyar said he would be paying our construction workers. car washes are legitimate businesses but as we were about to discover, some are ripping off their workers. this one is just off one of the busiest routes into cardiff. this is the manager.

excuse me, i look for work. this is the manager. starting £30, if you good worker i give you more money. that's just over £3 an hour. next he travelled to the cynon valley, where he spoke to a worker. in the beginning, he give you 30. if you're quicker, 35, and then if you want he gives you a raise, maybe 40, 45, 50. in two other places he visited it was the same story. then he hears about a vacancy at the welsh hand car wash near pontypridd run by kaywan and mohammed. they have a team of romanian and kurdish workers. where you from ? romania, i look for work, i look for house, i been here a month. you work in a car wash before? no, i do cleaning before. yeah, i will give you job. and i give you a room,

from here not far away, and in a month, we charge you £130. and for moment for now i give you £30 a day. £30 a day, 0k. how you good, i give you more money, you understand? 0k, sure, sure. later that night, kaywan shows him where he'll be staying in pontypridd. you cook here. there is no bed of furniture for him. there's another romanian worker living in a makeshift room in the attic. they will be sharing the kitchen and bathroom. i sort it out for you tonight, don't worry. that is what he'll come back to after working all day for £3 an hour. the law protects workers against exploitation but victims

are often too scared to speak out. the national crime agency and local police forces investigate. most exploiters will not be caught. 0ur meeting with the least chief leading the fight in wales. i'm still failing in some regard to their property up of the situation? are we still learning how to deal with it? definitely, we are learning. we are getting much answer. —— much better. in wales everyone is keyed into what we're trying to do. but i think challenge is that there is 13,000 possible victims across the uk. and we will for some time be able to attempt to gain the trust

of those individuals. and that will take some time. in the czech republic, more people have been testifying. 0ne victim told the court how he was regularly beaten by feko. he also sexually assaulted people as well. he has asked us not to identify him. feko was loud, violent and lied to us. translation: once he told me he would marry me and i would become his husband or his man. he was laughing about all this but for us, this is your suffering. this victim

was recruited from the homeless. i was recruited from the homeless. i was working for one month everyday and get anything further.m was working for one month everyday and get anything further. it was obvious from the start that all of these promises were fake and that you these promises were fake and that you were these promises were fake and that you were being traffic as a slave. it took me a long time to realise this. the reason why i kept staying there was that i needed the money. i was really frightened, i was scared. i was was really frightened, i was scared. iwas ina was really frightened, i was scared. i was in a desperate situation. in cardiff, the victims worked under false names. wages were channelled into other people's bank accounts. this victim escaped while at work. i heard a conversation with my co—workers who said what was going to happen to me. when i got home i heard this and worked away from the workplace. that was in 2014.

he told south wales police feko had exploited him, but he didn't mention the sexual abuse. he didn't want to pursue a complaint. for the others, the misery continued. feko is described as having a personality disorder. in the early 1990s he was in a gang in the czech republic where he was convicted of ordering the murder of two men they were exploiting. the remains of one was found in a reservoir. the body of the other was hidden in a children's summer camp. and it was while on probation in the czech republic that feko made the move to wales. in cardiff, police found the victims went unnoticed. it's ironic, within walking distance of the welsh assembly you have got men being brought work being exploited and abused. these people are hidden in plain sight. the company where they cleaned offices didn't suspect a thing. it's no blame on this company. these men were sometimes eating out of bins, sometimes showing injuries,

black eyes, marks on them and unfortunately nobody joined the dots and realised that there could be warning signs or symptoms that they could be somebody who is the subject of abuse. we spoke to first source and they said they have now taken steps to ensure that all staff are aware of the warning signs of modern slavery. the police say they alone can't tackle slavery and labour exploitation. the public have got a massive responsibility. we all know and use certain services if they are very, very cheap. let's question ourselves, where do these individuals come from and i think round the country people will be doing that. but do they still use the service? i think probably say yes, because they can't see a crime being committed and it's myjob to ensure people in wales, officers and staff, that they are confident that when somebody reports something to them they are able to dig into that modern slavery offence and they feel confident they can prosecute.

it's 8:00 in the morning. 0ur romanian worker is starting his newjob in pontypridd. he's put straight to work, helping to set out the cleaning chemicals including dilute hydrochloric acid. they started using these chemicals on the wheels, it produced this really strange fizzing noise. and the fumes from that got into my nostrils, it really hurt, it really stung. i wasn't given any instructions about how to protect myself. no gloves no gear, nothing, just a very vaguely phrased "stay away from that." according to the health and safety executive, employers should provide workers with a safety briefing and training before they handle potentially hazardous chemicals. drivers pay between £5 and £25 to have their vehicles cleaned. dozens came through.

what i felt like at the end of the day was i was being used pretty much as a workhorse, just an asset, you keep on working. some of the workers told him they were paid £50 a day but for a ten—hour shift. it's still below the legal minimum wage. there's so many people going through those car washes every day, nobody asks any questions. no—one was forcing the workers to be there against their will, but they all needed the money, however little. after his shift he returns to the attic, only to find there's still no bed. even though they said they would fix something for me, what they did was to bring in my mattress, a blanket and a pillow. washing cars forjust £3 an hour, our worker knows he's being ripped off, but how much is the business making? in the flat, he tries to find out more. after a few days, his boss says he should go the rhondda valley

to work with a man who runs a different car wash. after a few days, his boss says he should go the rhondda valley to work with a man who runs a different car wash. he's warned there's no time to talk. he spends all day washing cars, with no meal break.

that night he returns to the attic, packs his bags and leaves. a few days later he returns to ask for his pay. they're now trying to charge him £100 for leaving thejob without notice and for staying in the attic. he mentioned how much would you pay for a hotel room. well that's by no means comparable to a room inside a hotel or anything. and if i were an actual worker, right now i'd be in a very bad situation. he's demonstrated how easily workers can be exploited. they are out to make a quick profit and i would like to see these people outlawed,

i would like to see them being brought to justice. if offences have taken place, and ijust would like to see this activity stopped. we've seen how brazenly workers are being ripped off. today i'm back in pill to try to see shopkeeper bakthyar. he offered to supply us with cheap labour. hello, hey is bakthyar around? no. so i give him a call. hello? hello, bakhtyar? we know in the last couple of months you've been offering cheap labour for less than £50 a day. i'm not, i'm not whatever they are saying to it's nonsense. ok, i'm in work please, can you call me back another time? can you answer allegations, because you've been avoiding us. what about these... hello? and what about the car wash where workers were offered £40 a day?

bakthyar says he doesn't own it now. but the workers told us he's still their boss. in cardiff, where our worker was offered £30 a day, the owner says all staff are paid the legal rate and the man who offered less had no authority to do so. but in the cynon valley, the owner of this place admits paying below the minimum wage, and says his workers are happy with it. and the rhondda car wash said the same. so what would they have to say in pontypridd, where they refused to pay our worker? hi, we're from the bbc, bbc wales investigates. we sent you guys a letter about exploitation of labour and paying people £3 an hour, have you got any answer to that? i don't speak english. yeah, you speak english because we know we put people undercover here. you helped recruit guys to work here for £3 an hour. no.

no, you deny that, yeah? you don't agree that that you are paying workers illegally, that you are paying less than the minimum wage? i don't know, i work here, you know. kaywan also denied offering our workerjust £30 a day or that he refused to pay him at all. he also said he sold the car wash around the same time that we contacted him about our evidence. if you have details we would like you to pass them to us. it is illegal to pay those wages, we should not be paying individuals those level of wages and we want to identify who the perpetrators are so as key partner organisations we can prosecute them and deal with them and deal with that level of exploitation. so the police will look at our evidence knowing there are likely to be thousands of other cases in our communities. cases like the one which started in cardiff and has ended in a trial in the czech republic. fedak and feko have just been found guilty.

have you got anything to say to the victims? it's wrong, wrong! absolutely wrong. feko was jailed for eight and a half years. fedak was sent down for six and a half. their victims, who came to wales in search of a better life, are still trying to rebuild theirs. i want to find some work now to be able to forget it. i don't trust people now, it's hard for me. i am alone now because of this. to make labour exploitation and modern slavery a thing of the past, it's clear it will take the police, regulators and all of us to play a part. hello there.

if scenes like these have left you wanting more spring warmth and sunshine, well, i have to say, the second half of the weekend probably won't live up to the promise of the first. that is how saturday ended across north yorkshire. 0rkney shrouded in a bit of low cloud but some blue skies overhead as well. sunday does look a little bit different because of this area of low pressure, which is now pushing its way in from the west. it will strengthen up the winds. this frontal system will also bring some outbreaks of rain northward and eastward across the uk. so, sunday, a cloudy day. quite a breezy day as well. there will be some rain at times but not all the time. it is by no means a complete washout. we will, though, see some rain into the south—west, parts of wales, northern ireland, through the first part of the morning. that rain pushing its way across the midlands and northern england and southern scotland through the day. it will be quite on and off, quite sporadic, it will not

be raining all day. as the main band of rain clears we'll be left with showers pushing into the south—west. very windy across northern ireland. the brightest of the weather across the north—east of scotland, i suspect, and perhaps the highest temperatures. inverness could get to 16 or 17 degrees. some showers drifting north and east through sunday night but by monday morning most places will be dry with some clear spells. temperatures not dropping too far, six or seven or eight degrees. that's about it, as we start the new working week. during monday, not a bad—looking day for many. we will see spells of sunshine. more cloud and a few showers across scotland. the cloud will thicken up in northern ireland later in the day. outbreaks of rain here as well. particularly in the late afternoon. the wind is still pretty brisk in those western areas. temperatures not as high as they were on saturday, no, but 13, 14, 15 degrees will not feel too bad if you get some sunshine. that relatively warm feeling will stick with this as we move out of monday and into tuesday.

low pressure to the west, high pressure to the east, squeezing between the two we have this south—westerly wind. across northern ireland and scotland there could be some pretty wet weather on tuesday, outbreaks of rain, which could spill down into north—western england and northern wales at times. further south and east we'll see the best of the sunshine and the highest of the temperatures — 19, maybe 20 degrees. that's a mere taste of what's to come. as we get into wednesday and thursday, we will start to import some very warm air indeed from the near continent. watch these deep orange colours spreading across the map. how high will the temperatures get? perhaps 25 in the south—east, plenty of other places not far behind, so there is more spring warmth on the way. this is bbc news. i'm nkem ifejika. our top stories: clashes at the united nations, as the us warns syria it will carry out more missile strikes — if necessary. if the syrian regime uses this

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