it is in factories, farms and fishing, as we saw with morecambe bay. an issue of lack of regulation in the loft of our labour sectors and also the criminalisation of undocumented people in the uk, meaning that exploitative bosses can purposefully use them so they don't have to pay as much as they would to somebody with the rights that we would all hope to have. so they are people who wa nt to hope to have. so they are people who want to come here for a better life. precisely. and they pay heavily to be able to do that. the vast majority of trafficking victims worldwide are people who wanted to move in the first place, they have not been kidnapped or abducted. some people have but that is a real minority. we are talking about people who are absolutely desperate to get to another country to help their families survive back home and their families survive back home and the only way they can do that is through this terrifying and risky route on arrival, had they survived, unfortunately, they are likely to have been exploited. shalini, what have been exploi

senior investigating officer in the 2004 morecambe bay tragedy, thank you for that.e story we will be revisiting the story with an immigration lawyer who represents chinese trafficking victims in the uk. for now, back to the us. republicans put on quite the show in the capitol yesterday as they grapple with how to respond to president trump's growing abuse of power scandal. two dozen gop lawmakers tried to storm a high security hearing room where laura cooper, the american defence official overseeing ukraine and russia, was due to testify in an impeachment inquiry into donald trump. they were protesting what they see as the secretive nature of the democrats' investigation. police were called to clear the room and restore order. president trump clearly approved of the tactic, tweeting earlier today. thank you to house republicans for being tough, smart, and understanding in detail the greatest witch hunt in american history. it comesjust days after mr trump had urged members of his party to ‘fight‘ and to ‘stick together‘. joining us now from los angeles is former adv

slightly similar in morecambe bay when 23 cockle pickers died.nese economy was very different then, this is a far richer country now so the pull factors, so to speak, might be different. there are some reports these people may have come from the south of where i am now, a place known for its entrepreneurialism and it's my gay both legal and illegal. —— its migrator re—history, both legal and illegal. or they may come from the muslim part of china but those people are simply trying to get out of the area let alone china. maybe these are workers, and there are 31 men, chinese workers outside of china looking to go further afield and ending up tragically in the uk. the reality is we don't know. maybe this is about what it is about four lots of people who seek to move countries, maybe they have family in the uk and that is the pull. at this stage, we just don't know. 0k, robin brant many thanks. robin brant in shanghai and anna holligan in zeebrugge. with the brexit deadline of october 3ist exactly a week away, both the conservatives and labour are f

i'll be talking to the chief police investigator in the morecambe bay tragedy where 23 chinese cockletober 31st, the prime minister now admits we won't be and that he wants an election on december 12th. will the opposition parties give him his wish? we have to accept we won't be able to leave on october the 31st because parliament has requested

we have found in morecambe bay that very quickly, these people came forward and said, "we believe that looking at how far it goes. you have got snake head gangs in china, and the various low hanging fruit throughout the organisation, who have been involved in the trafficking, and the potential accommodation. it is all very organised criminal gangs involved at different stages and in different countries. lisa, i imagine there's a huge event of fear among those who have been traffic —— make that element of it among those who have been trafficked in terms of safety for themselves and their loved ones. now this has happened, what is happening in the chinese community in this country and also in china, to try to identify these people and make sure something like this does not happen again or at least flag it to show that people are so least flag it to show that people are so desperate that they will get in lorries like this to get here? yes, we find this is very shocking, obviously, because these days, china is more opened and getting richer so we find it is quite difficult to believe why p

the back of a lorry coming from belgium and then in 2004 we had the cockle pickers tragedy in morecambe bay container that went through liverpool. that had been organised by chinese organised crime triad gangs. we do not know whether these people were trafficked, whether these victims have paid money to be smuggled into the uk, but, in china, how many people, i do not know statistics are very hard, official statistics, are hard to get or may only be the tip of the iceberg, but what sensor you have of people trying to get to other countries in the eu by any means necessary, even dangerous methods? look, china is a vast country and it goes without saying it is one which has a very very long history of migration away from its shores to pretty much every corner of the earth. the focus recently in terms of illegal migration or other associate to come to the european union as refugees, has often been on this well leaving from northern europe. look at the two cases i pointed to in 2000, 19 yea rs two cases i pointed to in 2000, 19 years ago and then 2004, the ended tragically for a large number of

we had the death of 23 chinese workers, cockle pickers in morecambe bay in 2004.al rivals. richard galpin reports. this is the moment a group of republican lawmakers moved in to disrupt the ongoing impeachment enquiry. let's see if we can get in. it followed encouragement from president trump for tougher action against the attempt to impeach him. the republicans here demanding the hearing the open, as they say happened in previous impeachment. the press was in the room for nixon, for clinton. the legal counsel for the president was allowed in the room. all of that is being denied by chairman schiff, running this one—sided, soviet—style scam. the republicans‘ extraordinary move, on what is a secure facility, prevented this witness, laura cooper, a us defence official, from giving evidence forfour hours. this is, as you can imagine, also an effort to intimidate witnesses who seek to come forward. the witness was in the hearing room at the time that the republicans started to come in. they will not stop us in pursuing the truth. earlier this week, the us ambassador t