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from world leaders. for the department store. scams, casinos and high—rises — the bbc makes a rare visit to a strange city in myanmar. and running as one — meet india's paralympic runners and their guides. thank you for watching news. some breaking news from sweden, whether government has announced it limit announced it will limit access to semiautomatic weapons. swedish government is to limit access to semiautomatic weapons. this, of after weapons. this, of course, after the mass shooting earlier this
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can you to some week. we can you to some in sweden because pictures in sweden because a memorial has been set paymé. 7777 z? 7:7 77773; paying tribute to victims of up paying tribute to victims of the shooting. that memorial has been filled with hundreds of candles. this is at an adult candleslihis is at an adult centre orebro. education centre in orebro. swedish police are consulting jo continuing their on 7 7 on the f 77 on the school investigation on the school grounds where a gunman opened fire and killed 11 people on the swedish government tuesday. the swedish government is to limit to is to limit access to semiautomatic weapons after that mass shooting. the criminal scam compounds which have proliferated and visa regulations. of a well—known chinese actor, and several other people, centres.
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the scam business is believed to earn the mainly chinese crime bosses many billions of dollars every side of the border. dollar investment promising casinos, luxury hotels until recently it was off—limits to journalists, but our south—east asia correspondent jonathan head was allowed well, there are few places on earth stranger than this one. i mean, it looksjust like a provincial chinese city. yet this isn't in china.
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isolated parts of asia, where an insurgent group has been waging war against the state for more than 70 years. so why has a chinese company called yatai built all of this? luxury villas and cyber parks. human trafficking and money laundering. yatai's boss, a chinese man called she zhijiang, is currently languishing in a thai prison wanted technically, we are in the middle of a war zone what's much less clear, though, is what the business model is.
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trafficking, but looking around at all this, it's you just from to fund it. a different side. "it's a safe, green city," they kept telling us. everywhere they've put up these huge billboards promising in three languages that forced labour and human trafficking are no longer permitted. "it's private," they said when we asked to go in. some local people quietly told us that the scam business still thrives here. you could see bars on the insides of the windows. at night, shwe kokko lights up,
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with nine casinos, supposedly and all the time, from screens on the walls, the face extolling his vision of a shining new city. let's speak to south—east asia correspondentjonathan head. journalists are rarely allowed into these kinds of projects. our best guess is they are some it is clear some trouble. it is clear the somewhat enigmatic figure, she zhijiang, in a zhijiang, who was in a thai prison, is very important to
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sounds fantastic. but gino d'acampo has now been accused of inappropriate they've accused him of making unacceptable, distressing and horrendous comments. # lady in red...# gino d'acampo made his name on the itv programme you can't get any more venice than this. with a number of different shows. of production staff who worked with d'acampo. they accuse him of aggressive behaviour and using abusive sexualised language, which left some staff fearful and uncomfortable. d'acampo has firmly denied the allegations.
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aware of these matters previously. was deeply upsetting. itv, which commissions and broadcasts gino d'acampo's name a famous tv chef. itv news has reported that the latest series of family fortunes, filmed in 2023, is not currently scheduledcfor broadcast. in the city of goma, in the democratic republic the un says almost 3000
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people were killed meanwhile the congolese president and his rwandan let's speak to joe lusi there as a surgeon. thank you very much forjoining on bbc news. we us on bbc news. we are obviously hearing some terrible stories about the violence on the streets of goma over the few you are having with people caught up to de'atwith people caught up this conflict. tell us to de'atwith people caught up this conflict. te in s about hospital at the moment. is es: africa
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