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i'm melissa chan this is the news asia it's good to have you with us malnourished abused and unable to escape that's the fate of countless men who believed they had scored a promising job on a fishing boat but ended up as modern era slaves victims of human traffickers just how many slaves are out there is difficult to assess there's no oversight on international waters but monitoring groups say that forced labor and abuse are widespread in the fishing industry with profit margins low and competition high fisheries push their workers to work long hours and in dangerous conditions many of these men come from southeast asia here's the story of one indonesian crew who lived to tell the tale. a steady job with a good salary and

a lucrative bonus that's the promise that tempts many indonesian men to leave their homes and hope to see but what they get is this is about are more than 30 actually spy the indonesian seafarers movement shows crew members sleeping on the floor in the cargo hold looking malnourished and exhausted one of them is run by tula he says he was tricked by an indonesian recruiting agency traffic to somalia and forced to spend 9 brutal months aboard a chinese fishing boat manning nets and packing fish for 18 hours a day. some . bonding when we didn't catch enough fish or squid we were beaten by the captain. diversity we were beaten a lot i'm still traumatized by it but i was.

on board the creek claim they were given a choice between going hungry and eating spoiled fish and they didn't even have clean water. in the layout. on the rare occasion we were given fish we could tell by the smell that the fish was already bad after smelling it we couldn't eat it in a daily basis all we got was cabbage and rice with a little salt. and we drank pronunciation of water that we collected from the air conditioner done what i would. run a tool and his crew mates are now back home and they've taken photos and videos to document their experience experts say the fishing industry is riddled with forced labor and a predominantly targets pool workers from southeast asia. once on board there's no way out for the men and they often mercilessly exploited. a tool and as cremates

say they're owed thousands of dollars in unpaid wages. were don't know what i worked for a way for my family so they could be proud of me when i returned home but the reality was different harker me when i asked the recruitment company for our rights they said you're a stupid idiot we just want to ask for our rights after working for 7 months when about how many. numerous n.g.o.s both local and international have run the alarm about the slave like conditions that seem to be commonplace on fishing vessels across the globe but it hasn't stopped men like these from falling into the hands of traffickers. in an aegis ministry of manpower is among other things tasked with the protection of its workers that brought the department head acknowledges the problem but says it's difficult to monitor labor conditions at sea. it up a little like daddy but they will. need to study 1st whether the information about

the abused seafarers is true or not but that rely on data and facts so we can enforce actions lawfully in that country spending and body double down on them. but as around a tool and his former crew mates no doubt are in fact difficult to attain when you're at sea with no one watching because he got in the local time at the dummy. now the university of western australia and the see around us research initiative have investigated forced to labor on the high seas a little earlier i spoke to senior researcher david tickler about what they found we found a vicious cycle between overfishing and cost labor now basically slave labor subsidizes american amik fishing activity. and the resulting overfishing it then destroys property ability and other incentivized the use of force labor boats

have to fish harder to fill their nets and this is because the global catch has been declining steadily since the mid ninety's. the constant sweep squeeze long probability means that owners seek more and more desperate measures to cut their costs through often the largest and easiest cost to cut to cut. and so slave labor is the tactic of choice from troopers operators we found almost 40 percent of the global catch came from fleets that were a high risk of what slavery. now it's not as if the media hasn't reported on this the associated press even want to pulitzer prize for its reporting on slavery in a seafood industry a few years ago and their investigation resulted in the release of a couple 1000 workers from myanmar yet it doesn't look like much has changed why. because of the associated press reporting this issue is now getting more tense than

ever before. and there has been change on the ground in 2015 the e.u. issued a yellow card against thailand basically notifying it that if it didn't do something about illegal fishing and saber in its fisheries the e.u. would cut off access to the european market for seafood thailand's response was to completely redo its domestic issues legislation including putting in place sanctions horse labor and at the end of last year they were fully recognizing undocumented workers from places like me and mark and giving them full legal protections however it's still a major issue partly because imposing these regulations is incredibly difficult especially when the offense is often taking place out at sea. there's also on going to monitor cheap seafood. which we're all responsible for and of course this puts pressure on costs and there's evidence that there's complicity still between

officials and the people trafficking people into a british series which makes it very hard to undermine and sort which undermines rather it tends to address this problem that was david to clara senior researcher and lead author of a report on modern slavery at sea. we're moving on to thailand where parliament has finally selected the country's next prime minister incumbent leader and ex-military chief prior to. neither his who backed party nor the opposition had won a majority in the lower house in general elections held more than 2 months ago but you know chet was favored to stay in power backed by an upper house stacked with his supporters this outcome while not a surprise was not pre-determined faced a strong challenger from the opposition the future forward party here's more.

as soon as all the votes have been announced it was clear more than half of the thai parliament has voted for president john not shock as thailand's prime minister the former crew leader now becomes the head of a civilian government he was elected by the senate an institution handpicked by the military rulers his only challenger just a 14 year old billionaire store in june remembering kids who leads to and to military opposition young voters in particular have friday to support but the military junta has filed charges of sedition against thomas thorn in an attempt to intimidate him. i strongly believe that final victory will belong to the people. of the teachers cannot resist the wind of change forever. since the military junta seized power 5 years ago it has restricted the work of the

opposition and curtailed to free speech. trial and remains bitterly divided after 13 years of coups violent street protests and short lived civilian governments are used to not just new government will face off against a democratic front made up of 7 parties seeking to end military dominance in the country. so show will stay in power for a nother 4 years but not everybody is happy about it some people are tweeting under the hashtags not my t. n. and our ip thailand this user says you are not my prime minister money and power when everything here's someone who called to the election a foregone conclusion orchestrated by the military tweeting shame on the who into the most cheating election in thai history you got what you have planned for 5 years our south-east asia correspondent charlotte chisolm pill has been following

the whole election and sent us this dispatch from bangkok. today's anger on twitter is the culmination of months of frustration among opposition voters here in thailand many of pointing out the irony that the man who took power in a military coup in 2014 is the very same man now charged with returning thailand to civilian rule as one opposition m.p. put it it's like making the man who burnt down the temple the abbot that very same temple the opposition say that victory was stolen by a military determined to stay in power but the fact remains that private has managed to cobble together a majority in parliament his supporters say is a firm hand at the wheel a stabilizing force but questions already being asked about how long his government will last it's made up of an unprecedented 19 parties making for a potentially fractious coalition many wanted to help himself will deal with the transition from a military to a civilian leader in his 1st term as prime minister he enjoyed absolute power he'll

now have to deal with the bait and consensus building then as the opposition young and progressive voters have been galvanized by the anti military future forward party and its charismatic leader then now angry and disappointed with serious questions hanging over whether that promise to return to democracy has actually materialized. it's going to be a tough few years for thailand that's it for now be sure to check out our other stories on t.w. dot com for slash asia and on facebook or twitter we leave you with pictures from india where people have been sweltering in heat wave that seen temperatures top 50 degrees celsius in some parts of the country thanks for watching we'll see you next time good bye.

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