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racing to tracker cove at 19 outbreak that may have been spreading in the capital for a week. me a mazda opposed civilian later, and sun sued. she is expected to hear the verdict in the 1st of multiple corruption trials since she was arrested by the army. when it seized power more than a year ago. she is accused of influencing the 2020 vote to win a 2nd term in office. a guilty verdict could main a sentence of up to 15 years. and the israeli military says they have fired at dozens of shells into southern lebanon after a rocket was fired into northern israel. the projectile landed in an open area without causing damage or injury on sunday. the flare up follows a 2 week long tension between palestinians and his rally forces. at the l. x m mosque. those are the headlines i'm emily angland. the news continues here on out to 0 off to $1.00 0, $1.00 east to stay with us. or china, in the us sleep walking their way to war in the struggle over ukraine. here is the

test for president joe biden. we're from, is really trying to do is rewrite the security architecture in europe. it's your personal united states. you, sir, if you go to walk in through gum at the same time, your weekly take on us politics, and i think that's the bottom line. with he was thailand's most courageous cough. an investigator who took down a human trafficking syndicate, led by a top military commander, a guilty verdict, thailand's biggest human trafficking trial. but poet pung sir, and believed the powerful men he arrested, were protected by those even higher up thing. they stayed up guy, cool. thumb lee, my job to clog kids. hello for them to go guy and dig a u t guy jacob. they kind of lag now torn now for the 1st

time, he's accusing some of the most well connected men in thailand of obstructing the investigation. well, i'll get that. i got the bottle algae, we'd love the military wanted him dead. they sent him down to the south, re be killed. one i one east investigates why one of thailand's most decorated cops fled his country in fear for his life. ah, in a small town, not far from melbourne, australia poem pung sir, and is often lonely. in thailand, he was famous. a police major general. but here he's a virtual nobody. whom do maybe one gun will new law. we have them come 90 out of town homes and i love the time. yeah,

yeah. let me make you look on me. i 1st met wayne 6 years ago, soon after he fled to a trailer back then he said he was too scared to reveal who had threatened him. now he's finally overcome that fear. i poway you, i'm good. how are you? good, nice to see. you see, you make goblet plane and google to then get the a 9 form. do you know? don't guarantee by the time man, i don't close up until i don't die letting de la make. i could get down my man. i could go down during his glittering, 33 year career in the 4th. pauline was famous for staring down danger. i have the gordon upon this. is this the prime minister?

this for though i have received nearly was for my boss every year looking back at his career highlights. it's clear that the thai government used to praise pauline as a model. policemen the best investigator threes hands. i got it every year. no be vote can every time he was known as a dog investigator, unafraid to arrest people with money and power. and what's this? one? how a tough policeman banked by soldiers cleaned up kit. but in a country where police corruption is commonplace, pauline's integrity and enemies, as well as newspaper headlines because the politician call me peace hale, my fan,

no is illegal. if you'll call me, i will order you because you may, you recall you can control me. so you are arresting criminals, but some of these criminals were the friends of the politician. yeah, yes. in 2015 per wayne faced off against more criminals with friends and politics. and this time the stakes couldn't be higher. 6 more bodies have been found buried in a tie jungle there suspected to be ro hang your muslims, and were discovered in another mass, grave desperate people driven into the arms of ruthless criminals and passed along a trial of misery and torture. many hundreds lost along the way in may that year mass graves were uncovered at jungle camps. on the ty malaysian board up. it's a big camp. it's a big facility. thousands of her anger refugees from me and mara, who were trying to reach malaysia, had been imprisoned by human traffic as here. if their families couldn't pay

a ransom, they were sold into slavery. on fishing boat factories and rubber plantations. it's a trade that can only flourish with the active assistance and corruption of government officials or finality melvin no del, as in goody daddy, they were starved, tortured, raped, and sometimes beaten to death or someone earlier than that, you wanna do really well and having a lot of like even letting relating anecdote, somebody don't need a sound bar up. i got, i didn't, i had been young league. i my to a lot more lab, but they had tie been because he bought it. it was a vicious trade that had been quietly growing for at least 10 years, with international outrage threatened and critical, ty, exports, prime minister prior to china cha decided to crack down. what am i,

without the old owl, like little goblin, really that happy by my bob might be able to revive the one who in superiors tend to him to lead the investigation because they knew he got results. how did you feel about taking on this assignment? well, my yeah, my time. well, may i tell them, hey, home job, and i don't that you i know job been come, son. cromwell, college i. t, z and all night throwing counting but his in a day for wayne was a hardened cough, but he never been exposed to the kind of brutality inflicted on the re hangup in the secret jungle camps. i was given a video that was filmed by someone in your team. and i'd just like you to look at this for me and tell me what you think, what you remember of it. this man was so weak from

hunger, he could no longer walk. police found him crawling along the ground, eating leaves. how do you feel? i will get there. at the moment, i'm damn, i'm chi renee apple pie with i don't believe what happened in, in my county with a team of around a 100 investigators behind the wayne did what he does best. he followed the evidence. they began meticulously mapping a vast criminal syndicate, stretching across thailand, me and my bangladesh and malaysia. within days of starting work, he secured arrest warrants for a local man and several wealthy ty businessmen, pumping company, black corn hole net coma minova in san corn. concord condo, my dublin, my for not mean an young dial up while no mood dial tone last jump in. lot

5 kong lou on on gone talking labor day high, low, low. he's been ordered to get results from very early on. he encountered high level obstruction to wayne says, an investigating officer told his team he'd been ordered to withhold. crucial evidence by a deputy police commissioner general chuck to judge in di, adaptive sound. why, why don't i put the i get away from being michel if i could have any internal police correspondence obtained by 11 east shows the investigators had to appeal the chain of command to secure the evidence bank flip incriminating one of the ring leaders was it someone has bosses wanted to protect co, wayne was starting to make some powerful enemies, but he was also getting results too. i saw him sleep on your mind,

me guy on the com and look at my window when i called bend on mine super linebacker and then i will make our own and make you do not live up on the leg, but got the di twice. come. i live on monday, you may not come pen was the left tenant general in the army who controlled security in the south of thailand. for 7 years he'd been responsible for implementing thailand's policy towards the rank their phone guy, my high court, and courtney comma and a kid who legal but the anti nope. and not be on call. 5 uncle called tom listening need don't come monday and your daily wire calling has gotten cottonwood. young man on pauline believes deputy police commissioner chuck tip wanted to curry favor

with the generals who seized power in a qu. they here before that out yet? yeah. got been part the law doing duncan and yeah, i behind to h. i p thing i go out there to jump to the high and i call your time mega tongue kind of live a ton got put on pump. it could be common with nit never before had the tie police targeted such a high ranking military officer. wayne held his nerve as others feared for his safety. who i love a call all my tell when told my companions own tongue again clung langler and yet we saw near the di, poor man the was on mulligan tower, could make walla couldn't been me. and

a lot bye according to pull wayne is. the team zeroed in on military involvement, the interference escalated. he says police colonel, for a chat hot pon liaison to deputy prime minister general pro. it was the one cold with a highly unusual and troubling request. my wife, why now? i was out my time, call me back. i need to when told me and i called my mom to allow the banquet and told my neighbor montgomery by day appointed. but we want one soon, loppy job and gone, gone comedy central to tom haig piano, and he come up at the yard. good conduct a little bit on life at a time, tyler, i've got to buy the witnesses, had good reason to be alarmed when they saw the man accused of running the

syndicate flanked by senior army supported wendell might not have been a month from now diverting. gar, winter, contemplating shy phone, hung up long young. the might be that i need somebody to call me when i need them to type in time for me to look and not call my daughter. like, i mean, i will be off to her a check on now the police left tenant general did not respond to $11.00 aisd request

for comment on the allegation, the depression poem to grant, minot bail 11 east has learned that even in custody mana was allegedly able to intimidate witnesses according to a formal complaint by the chief witness against minot, which has never been made public police later into a room where he confronted her. then he treated me. your life has a long way to go. do you really think he can put that you forever? i will witness everything in court. i will get back at everyone off you. oh, plane says he received many other warnings and threats from high ranking police and army officers closely connected to the military government. he documented them all in this statutory declaration which formed the basis for his asylum application here in australia. he told me then the army is very upset that i or it general my

not cold and i watch various k plan. i heard the nails being tow again. that department there was anc. yes. meet made me really fear for my life pulling to let them on the cars along. did it um, synchronize none. i counted on the income, then goop on the bible, including shy, they live by die law. take um gal gum ticonda ya kai. the justice minister was furious poet and says and ordered him to stop arresting military officials. thing the form that afghan. com cool from mia to time. why did an important they got gandhi goal book on kava u. t. guy jacob ha ha like i like man, man. we get

a copy of poet statutory declaration to professor poll chambers, expert on ty, civil, military relations at thailand's. not a salon university. amazing. this is rich. what really stands out for you? well, it's how clear it is written that the leaders of the hunter at the time, ah, were involved and trying to silence her when there was an inspector inside the military who was intimidating. ah, but when that supposed to be the guy investigating, he's inside the military making threats. who gave that inspector the job pro width and he's the problem kid where i might ask long i yeoman big

a good point 8. but we'd want to one fella couldn't t, tom non guy take up a we to none. a timothy sandy, you made up an with 91 suspects behind bars. pony was forced to wrap up his investigation at the end of september 2015. he ran out of financial and political support. days later, a new police commissioner general was appointed. it was none other than chuck tipt chai, jin die. the man who'd allegedly tried to withhold crucial evidence from po, ain god d. thank you, paula. god, siblings, also no pull net. i debate i told ball point, be your con, call and up soon t. so why am i not cuttings on how you candidates are whom mike and annette

ben, capitol, column kennedy. this time, per wayne received no praise or commendation for his work. instead, less than 3 weeks after chalk tip became thailand's top cop, an order was issued transferring per wayne to the southern border provinces. this military controlled region was crawling with traffickers and corrupt officials, including several of po in suspects who was still at large bump up guy man. gandhi's own bomb by you. don't, nana mancha? don't bomb behave at all. lorn down friend dumler gum at there were carla fowl taught by a local domains. you got my thumbnail at formula, hold on guy and he algebra palm. the military wanted him dead, they sent him down to the south. reed be killed. he had to get out who made the

decision to transfer you been kanaka mcgowan, kaiser kind of look, timmy bowie, that been baton law gamino duct tape there big. i'm a guy longer do a soon dr. near. there's a boy that may be dying again. diane formula. bon, would a brookside corn gadget corn deep by long die of i'd, i'll get that a gun. the viper algae we'd la la la been guy and that's in de kung some candies and then she would cunning little but from sir danika, banana. young. young lawyer, t july, all no . pablo was near could on one t, tampa by the atanya st. people him. they loved one. cusack, ne,

pull wayne's most important and successful mission would also be his last no longer feeling safe and thailand. he flew to a trailer and applied for asylum. the top policeman, running the investigation, has fled for his life, and he seeking political asylum in australia. did you he even gave a couple of interviews without naming names. yeah. like, i mean, he, he, guy so, and it could be the new police commissioner general quickly hit back. hope hope hung. i got one and i will miss out. now i'm going to going to music, who did i did the man. so i left the one who don't put him on the floor. couldn't deal with somebody because i live, i live in with him. it all warm up high to come right. but head and i

have this one daughter that when i don't how my i had high. what did you think when you head police commissioner, chuck tapes, comments after you'd spoken to the media here in australia? maybe die by the bank when he beat down crediting tele thinking they'll colquitt been put on hand one day a good guy. and he, he comes on congo, convey to i couldn't sleep, comment on my not like if, why made all my, the pom? none could gotten cut ground. government got to the time, teach at daniella. one i one east, contacted deputy prime minister pro it wong swan form a justice minister. pye boone come china police lift, tenant general thorough check hot pon. and former national police commissioner jack

tip jenda to respond to wayne's allegations. they all either declined or did not answer our inquiries. me, it's been more than 6 years since pauline's seen his family. he left in such a hurry. he didn't even have time to say good bye. when he arrived in australia, he spoke barely a word of english. my see, my go. go home to me from the day. when a guy cup cool. cardio laughing. and who's a?

no deo. one wing that one can come back . i don't know about a day pauline knows that he'll never work as a policeman again. my name's helena. he worked for a while in a plant nursery. and now he's got a job in a factory on the outskirts of melbourne to own where from, by a long time the guy can do you, one of thailand, most senior police officers. and now you're doing manual labor in a factory. is it hard to adjust to that? why yeah, go. yeah. my name is lou. yeah, knew loud, don't you in?

you can do it. what do you think about when you're at work? they bung where i go, who and make it in and go gallop. you go to your part time time, miss newton will utilize law school and die alone. so 6 years later, day after day, you're still replying the events of 2015 jerry cappella lives in the meantime, may be, and she returned home. dad jack, now we belong and still feels like unfinished business. ty, cardinez, my no mitchell. the tom by him and girl young made

a moon up for them. a ya hidden cornet ma been pod. soon soon when been ruined. he got up to vomiting, a little man from car guy and made to bear the div on dagger mark who they numb vamping tape on the bus or potter ploughs all sun. com, but they had tie long dung, couldn't to a low nail, blew me to get his story out. pauline wants to start a debate in the highest holes of thailand government. so he sent a copy of the statutory declaration to an influential opposition politician. next week will be in bangkok and the tide parliament to witness the fall out went away and the story goes public. what impact will his explosive allegations have in

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