steering up for what's being described as the most important elections has independence from britain almost 50 years ago. folders in the country of 3 quarters of a 1000000 are choosing local officials and electing 50 and peace. who will then select the next prime minister. prime minister, minnesota, so go about it is seeking the 2nd term. he's brought his country closer to china. first by separating diplomatic ties with taiwan. then by signing a security agreement that has raised pierce by the us and its allies of a chinese military base. their opposition politicians want to review of the chinese pass that there's something that is very uh, containing like in place of the ccv in this country like people are not really making decisions that comes from they own the way the thing of the things they've been friends for their money, gods, and things. so that is something that we don't want to see in this country. so the

body argues deeper ties would paging, brings much needed. developing solomon's was proud to host the pacific games in menus built and funded by china capacity. i suppose other pacific nations will be looking to see what the consequences are of taking a very of the pro china stance. i mean, of course, they want the connections with china. they like the chinese aid projects, but they don't like the political pressures. but you politics is far from the minds of many voters. they say they want to cnn to both buying and the better quality of life. the change you want to see is a government, but the people says that is the one of the meetings, but they didn't want to see people 1st in everything that they do is a cation in education, in health, and the same clements in the country where progress and development have yet to

reach many of the remote islands. it's the core of issues that will likely determine the result. find it below, i'll just there. now the polls that open for parliamentary elections in croatia with a government despite the demonstrations in recent months led by the left wing opposition to choose those in power of corruption. kaleisha is the newest member of the european union. the ruling h. d 's at parties being challenged by coalition that opposes support for ukraine. unofficial 1st election results would be announced around midnight on wednesday. all right, that's it for me down jordan for now, but he's continuing say, and i'll just say are up to one. 0 one east. so i choose from so much and bye from outside of the examining the headline. is it or is hopefully today for the forms of life and god's

unflinching journalism. awesome. every interview, just like the war sharing personal stories with a globe or audience, only $38.00 it welts, women come and feel naturally released that trauma and creates explore and abundance of world class programming on eligibility era. in thailand, tens of thousands of criminal defamation cases have been filed in the last decade. critics, a powerful people are using the quotes to silence those speaking i a came here in tell you this is top and upset people. 100 percent of them often bank froze by the tax pass. these court 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. hey job. i'm a good time, much for the intention is not to in the case, but this actually to raring people dial 11 east investigate allegations that across thailand, low suits, are being used to intimidate whistle blowers 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 reputation. i face thing in jail. 18 years to us 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 bail yourself. 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 assist the charges relate to silence. here, under a clear example of strategic law suits against public participation or slapped 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 always 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 the home incorrect in 2021. when she heard about a story that 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 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 not a name change. why is that entity?

so how did you look at whose account that was left of this number 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. that's his name. yeah. yeah. the mom she's talking about is may a tunnel tune coolie kit. dustin, uh i was sho, i couldn't sleep for weeks. 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, 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 defending those charges. kate her on my outside happening. i can coordinate a been done port. well that's, that's one blow to up. i have 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 that said 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 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 concerned based. i had mean 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 that, that the institute handle the funds. a total of $44000000.00 bought. at

$1200000.00. a village funded money was funneled through the institute. most of it then disappeared. the villages mostly farm is day. laborers say they have no 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. cool. 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 adult?

no, i apply the say to the clear mind, well i'm, you have to log on to one you believe how many things you give them a call that the jimmy is who i mean probably well, 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 sanction scandal gains much smaller attention. kind of kept close to what i got that i need for it. so i told him the cops, me tell bon and how deep i'm one bottle on the putting on height. i'm like no contract. se michael told for non yeah, i had to have all, but i'm on call. good, my cock up. i think i know the last time you know, i don't see this in a famous prosecutor from sancho was appointed to lead a special investigation commission. have mean high by who me con, totally, me can come late and so and 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. but 10000000 bond is still on the counted phone. got took me a little more them kind of thoughts on. wow, look, good job, a lie. let me tell you. i think generally we couldn't come up now and i me came out and they got called into the me put me have you know, and like i told them to walk with the little gifts, how often months of waiting. the 1st of to, 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 fuel show it in some auto people have raised my freedom. good morning, i'm alley fall from alda 0 tv. i was wondering if i can ask you a couple of questions. can you,

can you explain why you're bringing so many charges against truth met today? despite repeated requests, may 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. cheatham 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'm traveling to newly prevents and timelines northeast to meet so about to nominate.

oh, i see. i saw yes. and so as a lawyer from bangkok to helps communities affected by development projects, you need to wear 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 off today began protesting the mining company launched criminal proceedings against them. this is a factory, but this was actually where the extracting the goals they'll go, i'm on. why that is the phone companies left so bad for me that been keeping less than that hope that phone kicked back to what the the and what's the last 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 off and they can sign on it. yeah. so the chemicals used in price with some really strong plays in his chemicals. that's true, powerful chemicals used to extract gold from rock 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 of. yeah, it's been read i nation. i am, is she the technical team and some had that the name of the in so by and see you've got them on this. i'm the minutes for me on please. from the com and the to the move in 6 months late to public health officials tested declined router and find 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 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 kept 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 step up that protests 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, telecom make on teach at home high siobhan, good time, much cool. and that goes with it and then uh, phone cutting in and a ha, my wife's up in the ally, you got net cheese 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 up. got uh, fried a kiosk in to get the, the, the allison up thailand finally the miles away from here. yes. 01000 people meant already had to travel. it refers you columbus has to face to charge that high pass . look, let me know how. so what do i need and i'm not going to be mentally with the time i look for them over the only time that i saw one soul food and they say the claims

for damages with disproportionate. i'm terrifying. in one instance, the company demanded 50000000 bonds. that's $1400000.00. so you got shot with the the families i'm guess because i'm putting this side asking for the 1000000 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 one guy made me me substituted to jacoby. it's also for the new tens, bon,

die. proactive on break down and i can phone and see what line again, based on life and fat. a lot then cool. young panful, big fat. me those who been by the height cloning at noon. that's who sort of say a lie. so is this up yet on that he sometimes big when i'm to death, how may cloning at 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 book you in may typed in the last time phone could be home, but it's not been done. tie, what's my, my somebody who sees the plan to mine pushing them their bodies that cause that phone to tie kasey. hi, hiccups of mine people but the villages never received the compensation. the

company declared bankruptcy before the verdict was and i'm finally off to move in a decade of complaints. the factory is being dismantled. they say full gas, how long do you know low coming on to knock mat lawsuit for next month? no, no, but we will need one people philadelphia 2 weeks and $5.00 to $1.00 of or the said less less. lucas couldn't get the nose for all those miles, the english. right. and what's on the list for the same thing. so says times criminal defamation knows must be changed as well. my. com, taped apple phones, quoting people couldn't match. so then also then pumped the pin like all the path, we've done the boundary and a little bit wrong. okay, so it's pumping time, it's a mess. i'm home. yeah. gun signed and sent home given time. i'm going to make it

couldn't but no wrong and says thailand's defamation law is that to protect people walking by the door loud. think with me one month. wow. that was a clumsy a high. which i think then what a to totty one. a city is a human rights advocate who has been fighting such little suits to nearly 6 years. she knows the pitfalls of time on the lease of the 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 caught and appeal cool is 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 proceed even though we already present uh, several uh, evidence of the why 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. terry says 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 north of 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 consent

has been on a litigation spree, sitting more than 20 people, including the workers who alleged miss treatment. one human rights activist faced up to 42 years in prison, to post supporting migrant workers to say they were exploited by the company. cases along with mold and 30 others, were eventually dismissed. suit the recess, thailand's criminal defamation laws are open to abuse. and she's nice studying low to help herself and others fight back. first of all can be no lies. people for the speech all for simply social media posts is wrong. and so many different level that is disproportionate. putting a person in jail is completely deprived them of galilee, but he and i think that's a very severe like punishment. it should be research 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 the police or even taken directly to the court as a result, ty text 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 $100000.00 type on the intention is not to win the case. but this actually to wiring people down by the proceeds off 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 the say funny cadillac cadillac in the last, who had high quality out quite

a lot of places. most of them before i'm somebody say 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 to the media. must we touch 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 what i saw high policy. i learned why. and i got 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. tammy, take the money $100.00 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 bring them to hide by and let me look colorado's and i look on your list involving the inc. 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 hey nicole. what is known 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. 101 east beach. the kung fu nuns got men do on al jazeera. the us is always of interest to people around the world. this has been going on for a number 50 price, but the report 34, that's an active perspective to try to explain to global audience why it's

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