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still low skilled jobs. i'm not sure with the locals. does um, to be honest, a lot of curious um doesn't refer to work. oh, nice pathology. and therapy for office for like 9 to 5. the labor shortages cool was by the code. the 19 pandemic old. but disappeared last year, when 173000 people migrated to new zealand to fill job vacancies. now with the economy and recession, the government has reduced low skilled wood visas from 5 to 3 years. meaning many my friends facing uncertain future. we invited many americans to come over here during carpet, di vegas as that and help our society here to be able to kind of be and then suddenly because we are no longer needing them. we are just simply kicking them out of the country. they were also high, an english language requirements, which the government believes was help prevent the work is being exposed to abuse by employee is the immigration minister didn't respond to l. just areas request for
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an interview. but new zealand isn't alone and seeing and need to reduce migrant numbers in australia. if full costs remain on tag, it's almost a 1000000 people will have arrived in the past 2 years. after changes to australia is visa rules, student, these is a now more difficult to get somewhere you want the long term implications might be if the new rules stay in place too long, you could the damage mates on to the regular approach or bring certain uncertain uh, but i graduated in australia or not, and we got about 50 percent of all of your, your 10 minute score migrants from students. so started here. let's try skilled all those skills. my grades have been vital to the economy. once the leading times a row, the students and work is that likely to be in demand again. but next time they may be more wary. wayne hey, al jazeera oakland,
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now it's holly and archaeologists and the roman city of pompei has uncovered ancient banquet hall, well preserved from your old paintings. also found a famous vegas such as helen of troy, paula and cassandra pompei was destroyed by interrupting volcano in the 7980 of the autonomy and fashion designer roberto valley has died. at the age of 83 kemati found the fashion brown the best as name back in the 1970s, and was best known for his exhaustive passions and animal friends. he said that all of his creations were inspired by nature. he died at his home in from hands and actually all that set for means to us here today, i'll be back with more of the 101 east. stay with the the
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challenges with in thailand, tens of thousands of criminal defamation cases has been filed in the last decade. critics, a powerful people are using the quotes to silence those speaking. i'm a came here in tell you this is top unacceptable. 100 percent of them often bank froze by the tax pass. these cool cases a taking that home on those standing up to fraud, abuse and environmental disruption guarantee by sac. but title, tell them how they can teach at home high till by noon upon much for the intention is not to be in the case, but is actually to wearing people dial 11 east investigate allegations that across
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thailand, low suits, are being used to intimidate whistleblowers and conceal corruption. the to tennessee destruction is one of thailand's most famous investigative journalists and human rights defenders. this morning she's heading to a police station in the northeast in presence of correct, defend himself and i feel upset. a few extra steps. too, too much space is a slew of criminal defamation charges related to social media posts she made about to look for mass linking him to a serious financial scandal in thailand, it's a crime to publish comments that damage a person, organizations,
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reputation. i face thing in jail. 18 years. that's because awesome. i said the one you speak up and then you get some people upset. you can go to the policeman and then report it immediately. you have to stay in jail. who is no matter who right? you're wrong, you do not have money to bear with us, so you have to stay in the jail. this is the 3rd time that you to must have to surrender to police over the same dispute. she's facing 9 separate charges or from complaints filed by the same man. the man of the sub district has been long to to me, it says the charges relate to sign in. under a clear example of strategic law suits against public participation or slapped
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cases. i don't know why i can say how many time that have to put the name on my finger. add the criminal record. i don't know that. so my mom's, my family is going to handle was this thing. more than 25000 criminal defamation cases have been filed since 2015 and they take a lot of time and money to defend. even if what has been said is true. i'm not a criminal. i have my own right to speak up. i have my own right to create the side of property interest project. to, to me, i was visiting a home incorrect in 2021. when she heard about a story, didn't add a huge sums of government loan money known as village funds, designs to lift the rural poor. i have to poverty had gone missing. so
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12000000 is accounted for with these names. yeah. and then the still so me see, 32000000 is missing. to, to analyze checks, bank slips and other evidence and began piecing the puzzle together, tracing some of the money to personal bank accounts. one of those accounts belongs to the man who says that check cashier check 1000000 and 1000000 and then not a religious 1000000 souls to 1000000 go to these account number. pay to on the, on the bank account. that must have a name. been not mentioned, it is new name and why is that entity? so how did you look at whose account it was that for based on the, on my bill, my banking, i tried to cancel for pen, not for this, but your call is solely come up. also may your name. wow. so that's his name.
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that's his name. yeah. sarah. demand she's talking about is may a tunnel tune coolie kit. dustin, uh, i was sho, i couldn't sleep fully. i was show you the guy who says up this community financial institution, the evidence appears to show that a financial institute, the may have funded, intended to manage and distribute loans for villages to transferred some of the money to him. instead, he's not facing criminal charges, but does not admit to any room doing to, to the shed what she's find with the community, posted online and gave the information to authorities. but to may of time and tone went to the police and accused of defamation. now she and her legal team are preparing to defend those charges. okay, to her on my outside happening,
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i can coordinate the been done part. well, i tried to unplug what by happened, done. thank god. why we have to fighting basic right about the freedom of speech. is a huge cost for, for, for type people it should be chance to to minute is speaking of the people like to know who took a pharma from correct. his life was turned upside down when the money from the institute went missing. in 2021, she received a letter from thailand, government savings, bank, saying she owed them an enormous debt. so my thank been her sideline. yeah, me one the yeah. what on to the left of my cool me, why i'm kids. good again top as well. maybe beneath my niece of mine at the low you cannot meet the doing pull. never forward any money
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from the bank. but her father was considered liable for some of the money that disappeared from the financial institute because he'd been a committee member of one of the village funds to cope when he died on the ty load, doing pun, inherited that liability. and along with all the committee members, she was some co allow me, one for the same love made him compete. light that out don't be consigned space. i had need allow me these high supplied doing homes. village committee is not the only one being sued. the bank is pursuing all 16 of the committees, but that the institute handle the funds. a total of $44000000.00 bought at $1200000.00. a village fund money was funneled through the institute. most of it then disappeared. the villages mostly firm is day laborers say they have no
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idea of what happened to the money, but they are now being held accountable low. maybe you will need to a t. so it's all based on lab. carlo from ports out though, cuz we need to be late that don't people who are telling me it also may be cool for me. yeah. let me quote my name. go ahead. go. what time allow me. hi. excuse me. that out here. it gets really hot. it's dry, it can be tough to make a living. these loans was supposed to be a lifeline for this community. but the villages say they became and a thing, but have you all being affected by this scandal? the top and then on the cabinet, the by the say to the clear mind, well i'm, you have to log on to when you believe, how many things you give them a call that the jimmy is who i mean probably, well,
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can you help me by any means right, so have of you here all have to attend colts because of this matter. claim it out. yeah. yes. eventually often multiple complaints. the government began investigating the missing money and the banking scandal gains much smaller attention. kind of kept close to what i got that on the board. so i told him the cops, me tell buying a coffee, but one bottle. i'm not putting on heights on what? no contract, se michael told for non. yeah, i had to have all, but i'm on call. good, my cock up. i get, i know the last time because none of them see this on a same is prosecute to from sancho was appointed to lead a special investigation commission have mean high by who me con, totally, me can come late and so in, hi, how are you constant been denied, confident in community, you don't get time. only men couldn't come pick up long of investigators have traced some of the missing money,
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but 10000000 bond is still on the counted phone. got took me a little more. them kind of thoughtful. wow, look, good job. a lie, let me tell you, i think generally we couldn't come up now and help me came out and they got called into the me. put me have you know, and like i told them to come for the little after months of waiting. the 1st of 2 to me is 5 trials. is a bite to begin very feeling novice. i mean there or worse, of course, because i feel like i, i not have power to control my fusion. now my few sure. in some auto people have raised my freedom. good morning, i'm alley fall from i'll do 0 tv. i was wondering if i can ask you a couple of questions. can you, can you explain why you bring so many charges against you to me that today despite repeated requests, may
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a ton and tune refuse to speak to us for this program. that in a series of settlements and a negotiation with the bank has now admitted liability for some of the debt to to me is trial is expected to last 3 days. but she faces 6 more charges off to this. and her deal may continue to use is amazing, is amazing. people who speed it up have to be in a chuckle in the jail in the cell is the fuel system. the residence of some of thailand's most venerable and in published communities have faced the charges of criminal defamation. today i am traveling to newly prevents and timelines northeast to meet so about to them in the home. oh, i see you saw yes. and
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so as a lawyer from bangkok to helps communities affected by development projects, you need to a much oh ok, thank you. so 1st came here in 2014 to work with villages opposing a gold mine. they say was polluting the environment and making me sick of today began protesting the mining company launched criminal proceedings against them. this is a factory, but this was actually whether extracting the goals they'll go, i'm on why that is the phone can be so bad for me. that been keeping less and i hope that phone kicked back to what the the and what's the last time. the smile on the factory site is a little overwhelming. it's come from saying i as in it and also off of can you call during that prostate and then that's why we get this mountain osmond
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concerning the chemicals used in price with some really strong poisonous chemicals . that's true. powerful chemicals used to extract gold from rock were mixed and stored here. right next to the village. and it wasn't long before the people living here. say they started to feel on well. if into thing the kind. yeah is read i nation. i am, is she the technical team and some help that the name of the him so by and see you've got them on this. i'm the minutes for me at the office from the com and the to the move in 6 months late to public health officials tested declined router and found it was contaminated. so you used to be able to drink water but no longer . yeah, no problem. don't hang up in one of my post app through and hook loading chemicals
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had seats into the water supply and polluted that crux. so you had blood tests, it was showing that you had a cynical chemicals in your blood and the name for you and i, manganese helped me and kept me m and also as in it, in the black. so this area is where they were mixing some 40 toxic chemicals which were then sleeping into the ground water. and this still a very powerful smell in there. so we probably shouldn't stick around too long ago the, the villages took that protest hosting on social media. right in complaint letters and putting up signs objects into the project. that sol says the company doubled time bounty by sec. good. title, sometimes they can teach at home high siobhan, good time, much cool. and that goes with it. and then uh, phone cutting in and
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a ha, my wife's been heavy at, i got net t's on my phone badge, i'm on my phone. the minor parade to tune come, company limited. didn't just see if the criminal defamation. it also filed civil defamation cases and made criminal complaints for trespassing against the community . and some charges was filed from weather then it just moves. mess up. got uh, fried a keeps in to get that either allison, off thailand. finally the miles away from here. yes. 01000 people meant already had to travel. it refers you columbus has to face to charge it high pass a look, let me know how. so what do i need and i'm not going to be mentally with that. how 9 look pool and the only time that i saw one soul food and they say the claims for damages with disproportionate and terrifying. in one instance, the company demanded 50000000 box. that's $1400000.00. so you got to chat with
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the, the families, i'm guess because i'm putting this side asking for 15000000 boss. 5xw50w. $50000000.00 because you put up a sinus thing. we don't want mine crazy. the companies to the villages, journalists and even a teenage go, was featured in a news report about the mines, environmental impact that employee related to clack e. it's a little mos on 6 days a timeout, so please don't call me literally let me, let me pull. my 2 i the villages say the number of cases was overwhelming. those when i made any on me, substituted to jacoby. it's also for the new terms, bon, die, proactive on break down and i can phone and see what line again, based on life and fat. a lot then cooling fan solved by me. those who been by the
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height cloning at noon, that's who sort of say a lie. so is this up yet on that? see sometimes big when i'm to death, how many people on the net that pump for sol successfully defended all settled overcharges vote against the community. she'll support a civil case against the company, claiming that filed charges in bad faith, costing the villages time and money, and damaging their reputation, matthew, so it's fine. let me come to pass on my thing i'll be pass on a go can re typed in the last band, phone can be home. what is that been done? tie, what's my, my somebody who sees the plan to mind pushing them their bodies that cause that phone to take passed the high hiccups. so bad people fall but the villages never received the compensation. the company declared bankruptcy before the verdict was and i'm finally off to move in
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a decade of complaints. the factory is being dismantled. they say full data could be, you know, low coming on to knock mat lawsuit for next month. no, no, but we will need one people to load all for ya. see, we've done $5.00 to $1.00 of them as the said less, less lucas coordinates. definitely. i think one of them for all those, most of the english and what's on the list for the same day. so says times criminal defamation, those must be changed as well. my apologies, apple phones quoting people couldn't match. so then also then pumped the pin, like all the path we've done with the owner. yeah, a little bit wrong. okay, so it's confident time. it's a mess. i'm home now. god, samsung, home beeping home. i'm going to make it couldn't but no wrong and says thailand's defamation lou is that to protect people walking by the door loud. think with me
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one month. wow. that was a clumsy hardening up, which i think then what a to totty one. a city is a human rights advocate who has been fighting such lawsuit nearly 6 years. she knows the pitfalls of time on leave from system. well. now the kids at the supreme court levels. and so i, although like we have actually one the 1st to call like the 1st court and appeal co op. i still hanging there at the bottom of my mind, she was charged of to sharing a video on social media about the alleged mistreatment of migrant workers. to major coach he exposed to it was very difficult at that time. i was frustrated with the criminal system. like how dare to allow to be perceived even though we already present uh,
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several uh evidence of the wide them labor, right. the violations will verify by different states authority fee, but why the case is still moving forward to the full trial suit. the reese has the information, she said was demonstrably true. the company had been ordered to pay the work is $50000.00 and compensation baton to tie defamation. the truth alone is not to defense. so in time and you can face jail time for re tweeting something that is true. yes, exactly. if the issue is not on your own later to make interest on a public interest, there's no defense. yes, the company involved to my cassette is being on a litigation spree, sitting more than 20 people, including the workers who alleged miss treatment. one human rights activist faced
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up to 42 years in prison, to post supporting migrant workers to say they were exploited by the company of cases. along with modems, 13 others were eventually dismissed. c 3 says thailand's criminal defamation laws are open to abuse. and she's nice studying low to help herself and others fight back. they 1st of all came in no lies people for the speech. all 4 simply of social media posts is wrong. and so many different level that is disproportionate. putting a person in jail is completely deprived them of down liberty and i think that's a very severe like punishment. it should be reserved for, for example, filing crimes, like uh for the crime that really had a serious effect on the suicide. the criminal defamation complaints can be made to
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the police or even taken directly to the quotes as a result type is affecting the bill for tens of thousands of charges. while those defending them have to put the bill themselves. the amount that i have to pay for the case is already martin, say 100000 type on the intention is not to win the case, but this actually to wearing people down by the proceeds of the criminal justice system. so i can correct the final session of the special commission of investigation is a bank to convince they are inviting villages like doing the phone to have their say funny cadillac cadillac in the last, who had high quality out by a lot of places. most of them before i'm somebody say
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the empties the patient as high as people arrive to me or, and his associates from the bottom line. financial institute is here to speak. wrong will be leading the proceedings, but they will be behind close dues. the media must waste that site later. no wrong tells us some of those folks have now taken responsibility, but he wouldn't reveal their identities. all the investigation is ongoing. they called us in the line which is so high quality, high level. why not funding? and i'm going to, i'm not going to move. i looked on, i found, you know, wrong, says that some of the problem stems from a mishandling of the money rather than corruption. and me take the money 100 flat. i wouldn't be like take the i knew something or not some prompting account online yet by time with i don't have to wait and behind by and let me look colorado's and
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i look on your list involving the ongoing however, the special commission is continuing to investigate the most serious potentially criminal actions the to celebrate the findings at the commission and the end of treatments. that's the trial. the villages are throwing a policy to the community. if i'm long things fine and they seem to be looking up in march, the judge in to, to most fastcase with the top posts, not just on the trees, but she still faces full more cases and potentially many more use of legal fees, time, and energy to defend them. i don't know what going to happen in the future, but a whole set of fuel show he's going to be bet townhome writer. i live at home. i live at home the,
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the in the polls, but it's not as a breaking stereotypes full while practicing the ancient mush allowed to come. it has made me physically very fit and mentally very strong. the mission is to serve the community, helping offers, cleaning up the streets and educate to young goals $1.00 oh, $1.00 east beach. the kung fu nuns got men do on al jazeera. these are some of the 1st images from the aerial assessment of co bleaching in the great barrier reef. bleaching occurs when moment ocean temperatures and pollution 1st call to expel the algae to get the color range of color at extreme or intake wise over an extended period of time. maybe some structures to being severely damaged. scientists have declared 2024
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