:00:17. > :00:22.visit Crimea as reports come in that troops are withdrawing from
:00:23. > :00:25.Ukraine's borders. The Australian prime minister says
:00:26. > :00:28.there will be no time limit on the search for the missing Malaysians
:00:29. > :00:31.airlines plane. And an Israeli court convicted
:00:32. > :00:38.former prime minister echoed all night of bribery.
:00:39. > :00:41.A danger to our food supplies? A UN panel on climate change says rising
:00:42. > :00:58.temperatures pose an ever greater threat.
:00:59. > :01:06.Hello and welcome. Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is in
:01:07. > :01:10.Crimea at the head of an economic delegation of Russian vice
:01:11. > :01:13.ministers. His visit comes as the defence ministry says the build-up
:01:14. > :01:18.of Russian troops on the Ukraine borders has begun to ease. Mr
:01:19. > :01:22.Medvedev is the most senior Russian politician to travel to the Black
:01:23. > :01:29.Sea region since Moscow seized it from Ukraine. The visit follows
:01:30. > :01:33.talks yesterday between John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov. Daniel Sandford
:01:34. > :01:38.is in Moscow. I asked what Mr Medvedev has been saying. He
:01:39. > :01:41.announced that Crimea will become a special economic zone within Russia
:01:42. > :01:46.to attract investment and also that a ministry for Crimea will be setup
:01:47. > :01:53.to develop the region, clearly sign that Russia believes this is an
:01:54. > :01:56.unchangeable position, that Crimea is now part of the Russian
:01:57. > :01:59.Federation and they are prepared to invest time and money into the
:02:00. > :02:03.peninsular as part of trying to bring it into the Russian Federation
:02:04. > :02:07.as a whole. That, of course, directly against what the Ukrainian
:02:08. > :02:13.government in Kiev says, which is that they still believe Crimea is
:02:14. > :02:17.part of Ukraine. What about news on troop movements on the Ukraine
:02:18. > :02:20.border? This was a very hot topic last night in the meeting between
:02:21. > :02:23.John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, and the Russian Foreign
:02:24. > :02:28.Minister Sergei Lavrov. According to the American version of that
:02:29. > :02:30.meeting, a lot of time was spent with the Americans are saying to the
:02:31. > :02:33.Russians that they needed to reduce those troop numbers on the border
:02:34. > :02:38.with Ukraine because they were causing fear and intimidation in
:02:39. > :02:41.Ukraine. Well, a Ukrainian spokesman for the defence ministry is
:02:42. > :02:45.suggesting that they've seen what looks like the Russians trying to
:02:46. > :02:50.reduce the numbers on the border in the last few days. They can't be
:02:51. > :02:54.sure - it could still be a changeover of troops with one group
:02:55. > :02:57.leaving and another group arriving - but what they seem to feel they're
:02:58. > :03:01.seeing is a reduction in those numbers and that will be welcomed
:03:02. > :03:05.not just in Ukraine but all across the world as people wanting to see
:03:06. > :03:12.this situation de-escalates. So is the fact that Mr Medvedev has gone
:03:13. > :03:15.there today a very strong signal, coming on the back of those talks,
:03:16. > :03:19.and saying that they will make Crimea is special economic zone with
:03:20. > :03:24.tax breaks? How will that be received in the region itself? I
:03:25. > :03:30.think it is clearly going to go on causing a great deal of alarm in
:03:31. > :03:33.those countries that border Russia, like Ukraine, obviously, but also
:03:34. > :03:37.Poland and the Baltic republics who feel that they are seeing what could
:03:38. > :03:42.be the beginning of a new era of Russian expansionism and it is
:03:43. > :03:45.making them very nervous. I think in western Europe and the United
:03:46. > :03:49.States, it might be accepted with a degree of realism. I think it was
:03:50. > :03:52.very obvious over the last fortnight that this was a step which Russia
:03:53. > :03:57.believed was the final step, not a negotiating position, and I think
:03:58. > :04:01.people understand that from Russia's point of view, Crimea is
:04:02. > :04:04.going to be part of the Russian Federation. That doesn't mean the
:04:05. > :04:07.rest of the world is going to accept that but in terms of dealing with
:04:08. > :04:11.real politics, people understand that, at least in the medium term,
:04:12. > :04:16.Russia is going to be a blistering Crimea.
:04:17. > :04:20.In the UK, fresh inquests are due to begin in two victims of the
:04:21. > :04:24.Hillsborough football stadium disaster. 96 Liverpool fans died
:04:25. > :04:30.when the terraces became overcrowded during an FA Cup semifinal match in
:04:31. > :04:36.1989. Angus Crawford is in Warrington in northern England.
:04:37. > :04:38.Angus, it's coming up to the 25th anniversary of this disaster. For
:04:39. > :04:44.people who don't know what happened, why is this happening this week?
:04:45. > :04:50.Well, this was quite simply the worst sporting disaster in British
:04:51. > :04:54.history. At the very time of the disaster itself, the families of the
:04:55. > :04:57.dead felt very strongly that they didn't get all the answers. In
:04:58. > :05:01.fact, they felt quite strongly that some of the key information about
:05:02. > :05:07.what happened to their loved ones was simply not brought out into the
:05:08. > :05:10.public domain. There have been a series of enquiries, public
:05:11. > :05:15.enquiries, inquests, enquiries into the specific circumstances around
:05:16. > :05:21.the deaths, court cases around this. And then finally in 2012, the
:05:22. > :05:25.original inquest, which returned a verdict of accidental death on all
:05:26. > :05:29.of the dead, was overturned because new information had Breen brought to
:05:30. > :05:34.light. That is why now, at this stage, almost 25 years after the
:05:35. > :05:40.disaster, we now begin today in this purpose-built courtroom new inquests
:05:41. > :05:44.into all of the deaths that day. What is key is that this is not a
:05:45. > :05:49.criminal court case. This is not about apportioning blame. This is
:05:50. > :05:53.about finding out exactly how, when and where those people died and if
:05:54. > :05:59.there were omissions or negligent acts, those will be brought out. But
:06:00. > :06:03.nobody will be found to blame. Nobody is facing criminal charges in
:06:04. > :06:09.this particular court case. Thanks very much indeed.
:06:10. > :06:13.The Malaysia authorities have announced that a new joint
:06:14. > :06:17.coordination centre has been set up in Perth to oversee the search for
:06:18. > :06:20.the missing passenger plane. The announcement came hours after the
:06:21. > :06:23.Australian prime minister Tony Abbott said there was no time limit
:06:24. > :06:29.for the search. Here's what the transport minister had to say. The
:06:30. > :06:35.military is of Malaysia, Australia, the United States, New Zealand,
:06:36. > :06:40.China, Japan and Korea are all working hand in glove to find the
:06:41. > :06:50.missing plane. I should also like to point out that Indonesia has given
:06:51. > :06:53.clearance for 94 sorties for aircrafts from nine different
:06:54. > :06:59.countries to fly in their airspace as part of the search. As the Prime
:07:00. > :07:02.Minister Abbott said, it is heartening to see so many different
:07:03. > :07:07.countries working together for a humanitarian cause, to resolve this
:07:08. > :07:12.extraordinary mystery and to bring closure for the families on those
:07:13. > :07:18.involved. This morning, the Prime Minister spoke with Australian Prime
:07:19. > :07:24.Minister Tony Abbott. Prime Minister Abbott gave a full update on the
:07:25. > :07:31.search and operations headed out of Perth. Our prime minister has
:07:32. > :07:35.decided to travel to Perth on Wednesday for a working visit to the
:07:36. > :07:41.air force base to see the operations first-hand. With me is our news
:07:42. > :07:46.correspondent who has been following all these developments. Just to make
:07:47. > :07:49.it absolutely clear, have they actually found anything that is
:07:50. > :07:55.linked to the plane in the waters near Perth? No, they haven't. Simple
:07:56. > :07:58.as that. The search has been going on for three weeks but the Southern
:07:59. > :08:02.Indian Ocean is fast and very desolate. There was also a lot of
:08:03. > :08:07.nondescript junk floating around and many of the items that have been
:08:08. > :08:10.found our old bits of fishing gear. Objects have been cited in the water
:08:11. > :08:14.and been recovered and found to have nothing to do with MH370. But we
:08:15. > :08:20.shouldn't be all that surprised - it is a vast area. Let's have a look at
:08:21. > :08:24.the map that we've got on the search area that was released by the
:08:25. > :08:29.Australians. They've explained the exact size today, haven't they?
:08:30. > :08:34.Yes, we had a figure of 250,000 square kilometres for today's
:08:35. > :08:36.searches. You can see the various different parts of the southern
:08:37. > :08:40.Indian Ocean that have been searched over the past three weeks, which has
:08:41. > :08:44.been based on information that has been processed relating to the speed
:08:45. > :08:50.of the aircraft, where it appeared according to a satellite which was
:08:51. > :08:54.detecting pains of information -- Pings of information from the
:08:55. > :08:58.aircraft. So the search has a vault into different parts of the ocean.
:08:59. > :09:04.You can see the sheer scale of that and all of this is happening around
:09:05. > :09:09.1000 miles away from Perth. It's a phenomenal logistical exercise.
:09:10. > :09:15.There has been so much speculation on the pilots' personal backgrounds
:09:16. > :09:22.and how and why a communications system would be closed down. What do
:09:23. > :09:25.we actually know now? We had two good pilots. There is nothing to
:09:26. > :09:28.suggest there was anything wrong with them. One of them was
:09:29. > :09:33.relatively inexperienced flying that aircraft but the other was very
:09:34. > :09:37.qualified. We know that after about 40 minutes of flight, the co-pilot
:09:38. > :09:42.handed over to Malaysia on air traffic control as he was leaving
:09:43. > :09:49.Malaysia and airspace. He said "good night" , a fairly normal piece of
:09:50. > :09:53.banter. It was due to be taken up by Vietnamese air traffic control. That
:09:54. > :09:57.never happened. At around that time, the main radar transponder, which
:09:58. > :10:01.identifies the aircraft to air traffic control, was switched off.
:10:02. > :10:04.The transponder which sends outbursts of information about the
:10:05. > :10:08.mechanical health of the aircraft to ground stations via satellite was
:10:09. > :10:11.also turned off. The Malaysia authorities remain convinced they
:10:12. > :10:14.were turned off deliberately but they don't know why and there are
:10:15. > :10:18.any numbers of scenarios that could lead to that. It could be that there
:10:19. > :10:21.was a problem on board and the pilots were pulling circuit breakers
:10:22. > :10:26.to try to isolate the problem. But in that case, why didn't they put
:10:27. > :10:30.out a Mayday call? One of the pilots could have decided to take control
:10:31. > :10:34.of the aircraft for his own purposes. This is speculation. We
:10:35. > :10:37.don't know. If the pilot did decide to take the aircraft under his own
:10:38. > :10:40.control, why then is speculation. We don't know. If the pilot did decide
:10:41. > :10:42.to take the aircraft under his own control, why then fly for seven
:10:43. > :10:45.hours into the southern Indian Ocean? This is all unknown. We can
:10:46. > :10:47.read in all the newspapers about the different conspiracy theories but
:10:48. > :10:51.until the flight data recorder is actually found, it will remain
:10:52. > :10:56.speculation. And only seven days, potentially, in which to find it.
:10:57. > :10:58.Yes, it has a location detector beacon which will start to run at 30
:10:59. > :11:05.days after the accident. Thank you. Now, climate change is
:11:06. > :11:08.being felt across all continents and oceans, affecting food, security,
:11:09. > :11:12.deletions and the spread of disease. That's according to the
:11:13. > :11:16.intergovernmental panel on climate change which has leased its most
:11:17. > :11:20.brands of report today. 56 authors contributed to it and it has been
:11:21. > :11:23.signed off by representatives of more than 100 countries. Speaking at
:11:24. > :11:28.the presentation of the report in Japan, the chairman of the panel
:11:29. > :11:33.said the risks were high and the time for action is now. There is a
:11:34. > :11:37.reason for the world not really neglecting the findings of this
:11:38. > :11:42.report because they are profound and let me repeat once again, we have
:11:43. > :11:49.said very categorically in this report, the implications for human
:11:50. > :11:54.security. We have reason to believe that if the world doesn't do
:11:55. > :11:56.anything about mitigating the omissions of greenhouse gases and
:11:57. > :12:02.the extent of climate change continues to increase, then the very
:12:03. > :12:09.social stability of human systems would be extinct. Matt McGrath is at
:12:10. > :12:15.the conference that is under way. I asked him what governments have now
:12:16. > :12:17.agreed to do about these findings. Getting governmental agreement on
:12:18. > :12:21.something like climate is very difficult and it has proved almost
:12:22. > :12:24.intractable over the last 15 years. But the scientists meeting here over
:12:25. > :12:29.the last couple of days hope that this report will be the springboard
:12:30. > :12:32.to a new global agreement that is hoped to be signed by the end of
:12:33. > :12:36.next year, that would limit carbon emissions. To put in place the kind
:12:37. > :12:42.of adaptation methods they talk about. They spent seven years
:12:43. > :12:46.looking at this particular impact on climate change around the world.
:12:47. > :12:50.They have doubled the amount of scientific literature and they say
:12:51. > :12:55.impact that are happening right now, impact that will be happening
:12:56. > :12:59.in the next 20-30 years, on our food supplies, on human health, on a
:13:00. > :13:04.whole range of things, not just natural existence. This is, I
:13:05. > :13:07.suppose, the starkest call yet for action, showing that there is real
:13:08. > :13:14.science behind the multitude of affects. But getting action and
:13:15. > :13:21.commitment is an absolutely mammoth task. What has been the political
:13:22. > :13:26.response? Politicians generally seem to be very much in favour of
:13:27. > :13:29.everything the IPC says because they've sent government
:13:30. > :13:33.representatives here and they've been meeting with the scientists and
:13:34. > :13:37.negotiating every single word of this very dense 30 page document, so
:13:38. > :13:42.governments are already signed up to its provisions. The problem is
:13:43. > :13:45.paying the bill. You could look at this document and say it is one of
:13:46. > :13:48.the biggest bills in history because it scopes out into the future the
:13:49. > :13:52.impact on small and developing countries who are having a tough
:13:53. > :13:56.time with climate change, and they're going to have to spend a lot
:13:57. > :13:59.of money to adapt to that. And the natural solution is that that money
:14:00. > :14:04.should come from richer countries and that has been a real difficulty
:14:05. > :14:08.in the whole negotiation process. So the hope is, from the scientists,
:14:09. > :14:12.that this new report will help clarify that situation and the hope
:14:13. > :14:16.is that the politicians who have signed up to this document here will
:14:17. > :14:22.now go on and build a framework for the future that will cut emissions
:14:23. > :14:27.on the one hand but also provide the adaptation to help smaller countries
:14:28. > :14:30.and poorer countries on the other. The former Israel prime minister
:14:31. > :14:35.echoed Olmert has been convicted of bribery over his ties to a real
:14:36. > :14:43.estate deal. -- echoed Olmert. The scandal over and apartment deal
:14:44. > :14:48.forced him to stand down as premier in 2008. He was convicted in 2012.
:14:49. > :14:51.That was on one count of breach of trust. He was cleared of fraud.
:14:52. > :14:57.Quentin Sommerville gave me more details. The former pro-minister has
:14:58. > :15:00.been found guilty of bribery. That's a first. It's never happened in
:15:01. > :15:07.Israel before. This trial has captivated the entire country. The
:15:08. > :15:12.verdict run to 700 pages and it has taken many years to get us here. It
:15:13. > :15:17.took over one hour and 45 minutes to be read out and has been broadcast
:15:18. > :15:21.live on TV. Mr Allnutt has been found guilty of taking bribes to
:15:22. > :15:27.allow the construction of this massive property developer that you
:15:28. > :15:30.can see over my shoulder. It started off as a fairly modest development
:15:31. > :15:36.but because of the huge bribes that were paid, something in the region
:15:37. > :15:38.of a quarter of $1 million, it expanded and expanded, and is
:15:39. > :15:44.regarded as one of the worst eyesores in Djourou slump. It has
:15:45. > :15:47.brought down Mr Olmert's career as prime minister and looks like it is
:15:48. > :15:56.killed off any chances of a political resurrection. Politically,
:15:57. > :16:01.how does this affect the landscape there? It's enormous, it's harder to
:16:02. > :16:05.think of the bigger trial. The Israeli media are describing it as
:16:06. > :16:09.what may be the trial of the century. This was a man who was
:16:10. > :16:14.pivotal in peace negotiations with the Palestinians when he was Prime
:16:15. > :16:18.Minister. He failed to realise those ambitions, but he did harbour
:16:19. > :16:22.ambitions of a return to politics. It's very difficult to see how that
:16:23. > :16:26.can be achieved now with this conviction hanging over him. We are
:16:27. > :16:32.still waiting for sentencing, that will come in the next few months,
:16:33. > :16:35.when we will hear just exactly what kind of punishment Ehud Olmert will
:16:36. > :16:45.face, and the other 12 people standing trial alongside him. We
:16:46. > :16:48.have a look at the UK immigrants whose these conditions force them to
:16:49. > :17:02.work in conditions that some say amount to modern-day slavery.
:17:03. > :17:08.Security forces in Rio have staged a massive operation to occupy one of
:17:09. > :17:11.its largest shanty towns. It's part of a campaign to clean up the city
:17:12. > :17:15.ahead of the football World Cup. Over 1000 officers entered the
:17:16. > :17:18.favela in the early hours of Sunday and thousands more are expected to
:17:19. > :17:21.arrive within the coming days. Sunaina Gulati reports. Armoured
:17:22. > :17:27.vehicles entered the area at dawn and real's elite policed marched
:17:28. > :17:30.behind. The favelas at home to over 120,000 people. The authorities say
:17:31. > :17:35.the whole area was occupied within 15 minutes. The operation is
:17:36. > :17:40.considered a strategic move ahead of the football World Cup. These
:17:41. > :17:47.favelas are right next to the highway. The lead from real's
:17:48. > :17:51.International airport into the city. The complex has long been dominated
:17:52. > :17:54.by three different com -- in all organisations. It became a hub for
:17:55. > :17:58.gangs after a government initiative pushed them out from other
:17:59. > :18:02.communities. Over 1000 troops are to arrive in the coming days to secure
:18:03. > :18:26.the favelas until after the World Cup. In other news... 21 people are
:18:27. > :18:28.now confirmed to have died in the deadly mudslide that buried the
:18:29. > :18:31.mountainside community of Oso, Washington State. About 30 people
:18:32. > :18:35.remain missing. Crews have completed a makeshift road that will link one
:18:36. > :18:37.side of the debris field to the other which they say will
:18:38. > :18:39.significantly help the recovery operation. The World Health
:18:40. > :18:43.Organisation has confirmed two cases of the Ebola virus in the west
:18:44. > :18:46.African state of Liberia, close to the border with Guinea and Sierra
:18:47. > :18:50.Leone. The outbreak of the deadly fever was first identified in the
:18:51. > :18:53.south of Guinea where more than 70 people have died. Senegal has closed
:18:54. > :18:56.its border crossings to try and prevent the disease spreading. North
:18:57. > :18:58.and South Korea have exchanged fire over their maritime border. The
:18:59. > :19:02.Southern authorities have been quoted as saying the incident
:19:03. > :19:05.started when shells fired by the North during an exercise fell in
:19:06. > :19:09.Seoul's territorial waters. The headlines. The Russian Prime
:19:10. > :19:13.Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, is in Crimea on the highest level visit to
:19:14. > :19:17.the peninsula since its annexation by Russia. Meanwhile, there are
:19:18. > :19:22.reports that Russian troops are withdrawing from Ukraine's borders.
:19:23. > :19:25.The Australian Prime Minister says there will be no time limit on the
:19:26. > :19:37.search for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane. Turkey's Prime
:19:38. > :19:42.Minister has claimed victory. The most votes counted, his party had
:19:43. > :19:52.won more than 45% of the vote, well ahead of its nearest opposition. The
:19:53. > :19:57.polls closed and the country's Prime Minister, leaving for the capital,
:19:58. > :20:07.Ankara, decided to take the early signs as a personal victory.
:20:08. > :20:14.TRANSLATION: This is the wedding day of the new Togo. This is the victory
:20:15. > :20:19.Day of the new Turkey. 77 million united together as brothers.
:20:20. > :20:24.Earlier, at a polling station in Istanbul, rated Tayyip Erdogan's
:20:25. > :20:30.supporters are desperate to get a look at him. We are saying we are
:20:31. > :20:36.with him, we think he's doing his job very well. But there are so many
:20:37. > :20:41.problems, they're been protests? It's not a problem. It's not easy to
:20:42. > :20:47.make everybody happy in politics. Erdogan isn't on the ballot. But, as
:20:48. > :20:50.you can see, this election is all about him anyway. The results of
:20:51. > :20:54.this boat may determine his own political future. The opposition
:20:55. > :20:59.Republican People's party campaigning here in Istanbul has
:21:00. > :21:11.tried to stop the Prime Minister. Its candidate fought back to win the
:21:12. > :21:16.city from Mr Erdogan's party. He is not in love with Istanbul, he is in
:21:17. > :21:20.love with North Korea, he told the BBC. At the opposition
:21:21. > :21:23.headquarters, supporters watched the early results come in. They did not
:21:24. > :21:35.look like they were preparing to celebrate. The governing Socialists
:21:36. > :21:42.in France have suffered a heavy defeat in the second round of local
:21:43. > :21:46.elections. They retained control of Paris but many other cities fell to
:21:47. > :21:49.the centre-right UMP Party. The BBC's Paris correspondent Hugh
:21:50. > :21:53.Schofield reports. The French voted and the message they send to the
:21:54. > :21:59.Socialist government was a cruel one. Town after town tumbled to the
:22:00. > :22:06.opposition in what fell little short of a round. One consolation to the
:22:07. > :22:11.Socialists, they held on to Paris. Ann hidalgo be the capital's first
:22:12. > :22:15.woman mayor. But even hear the news was mixed, with the city suburbs
:22:16. > :22:20.swinging, like the country, to the centre-right UMP. And it was the
:22:21. > :22:26.UMP's night. They easily outscored the left, taking control of 150 150
:22:27. > :22:30.towns and cities. TRANSLATION: Today what met --
:22:31. > :22:34.matters is how President Hollande will take this message and how we
:22:35. > :22:38.will finally be able to change those politics, which are completely
:22:39. > :22:41.disastrous for the country. By the back row and for the far right
:22:42. > :22:46.National front it was also a good night. They took 12 towns, including
:22:47. > :22:51.one in the Paris region, the biggest ever haul in their history. For the
:22:52. > :22:54.government, the Prime Minister conceded that voters had delivered a
:22:55. > :23:01.painful blow. TRANSLATION: This vote, as much at a
:23:02. > :23:05.local level as at a national one, is a defeat for the government. The
:23:06. > :23:08.record levels of abstentions is marked by the disaffection of a
:23:09. > :23:16.significant number of those who had once trusted us. But his political
:23:17. > :23:20.future is itself now very much on the line. There is every expectation
:23:21. > :23:24.that President Hollande will react to the defeat by announcing a change
:23:25. > :23:29.of government, and the Prime Minister may be forced to go. It has
:23:30. > :23:38.been the first electoral test to the Socialists since they came to power,
:23:39. > :23:47.and they failed it. According Pakistan has charged the former
:23:48. > :23:50.president with high treason. Mr Musharraf has been charged with
:23:51. > :23:53.unlawfully imposing emergency rule and violating the constitution in
:23:54. > :23:56.2007. He has pleaded not guilty and claims the charges against him are
:23:57. > :24:00.politically motivated. He could face the death penalty if convicted.
:24:01. > :24:03.Campaigners in the UK say the Government is "licensing modern
:24:04. > :24:06.slavery" with its visa rules for domestic workers. Since April 2012
:24:07. > :24:11.they have been tied to one employer after arriving in the UK, meaning
:24:12. > :24:19.they cannot move jobs. Divya Talwar reports. The City of London, among
:24:20. > :24:22.the world's richest capitals. In each year, thousands of wealthy
:24:23. > :24:25.foreigners come to live here, bringing with them their domestic
:24:26. > :24:30.staff. But behind the closed doors of some of the rich and powerful
:24:31. > :24:35.there are hidden stories of abuse, control and exploitation faced by
:24:36. > :24:40.many foreign domestic workers who come to Britain in the homes of the
:24:41. > :24:44.wealthy. Stories like this one. A single mother from the Philippines
:24:45. > :24:49.who came to the UK with her Arab employers. She says she was treated
:24:50. > :24:53.like a slave. They treat me not well. They are always shouting and
:24:54. > :25:00.screaming at me and saying I'm stupid, do this, do that. I don't
:25:01. > :25:04.have any breaks, just to look after the children, they are going out,
:25:05. > :25:10.they never let me go out. My employer told me, if you are going
:25:11. > :25:14.to go out the police will catch you. She eventually run away, but she's
:25:15. > :25:19.now become an illegal migrant and has gone into hiding. Let's try that
:25:20. > :25:24.one. Her experience is shared by many women in this group. It is made
:25:25. > :25:29.up of an run by migrant domestic workers, and each Sunday they meet
:25:30. > :25:33.here to learn English. Many in the room have managed to escape abuse.
:25:34. > :25:36.You hear stories of very disturbing treatment, including people being
:25:37. > :25:40.physically locked in, allowed very little food and sometimes having
:25:41. > :25:44.endured even physical abuse, but definitely psyched -- will to
:25:45. > :25:48.abuse, being regularly shouted at and screamed out, sleep deprivation,
:25:49. > :25:52.working all hours and woken up all hours, maybe even sleeping in the
:25:53. > :25:58.kitchen or the lounge. Having no private time or time off at all.
:25:59. > :26:01.Charities fear the situation has become worse for domestic workers
:26:02. > :26:05.since immigration rules have changed two years ago, banning them from
:26:06. > :26:09.changing their employer want in the UK. It has been compared to the
:26:10. > :26:14.system operating in some Arab countries, like Saudi Arabia and
:26:15. > :26:17.Qatar, where migrant workers are tied to a sponsor. But the British
:26:18. > :26:22.government says it will help domestic workers who face abuse to
:26:23. > :26:27.return home. For some, going back just isn't an option. I don't want
:26:28. > :26:32.to leave because I need money, I need to support my children. I am a
:26:33. > :26:39.single mother. They are only depending on me. Justice for
:26:40. > :26:43.domestic workers! The UK Government is introducing a modern slavery law,
:26:44. > :26:47.but campaigners fear it will do little for domestic workers unless
:26:48. > :26:54.they are able to escape abuse and seek help. That is it from me for
:26:55. > :26:57.now. Have a good day wherever you are.