1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Time to go to Gevin Gray, UK and europe correspondent. 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: Given good evening to you. Hi. They right, hey, let's 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: talk about what's happening in Spain right now. Police have 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 1: arrested forty eight people listening connection with a suspected human 5 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 1: trafficking ring. 6 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, and a massive one at that. The allegations are 7 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 2: that they have lured more than a thousand women to 8 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:25,319 Speaker 2: the country for sex work. The Polincia Nacional the Armed 9 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 2: Officers section, carried out raids across Alacanti and Murthia, that's 10 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 2: the southeast of the country. It's said that they found 11 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 2: evidence that the women, who were mostly from Venezuela and Colombia, 12 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 2: were basically told they would be given jobs in beauty 13 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 2: salons or cleaning jobs. However, once they got to Spain, 14 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:50,200 Speaker 2: they were then forced into the sex trade and only 15 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 2: allowed out for a couple of hours a day and 16 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 2: kept under constant video surveillance. Two Colombian women and the 17 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 2: Spaniard have among the dozens that have been detained, and 18 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 2: then three strip clubs have also been shut down. Officers 19 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:12,119 Speaker 2: have seized about two million New Zealand dollars from bank 20 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 2: accounts and also in cash and now the suspects have 21 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 2: been remanded in custody and will appear in court shortly. 22 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: All right, this British couple in their seventies so arrested 23 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: by the Teleiban in Afghanistan. What were they doing? 24 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very very unusual. So the couple met at 25 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:33,839 Speaker 2: the University of Bath in the UK. However they got 26 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 2: married in Afghanistan and they run projects, including some for 27 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 2: training mothers and children. So they run educational projects and 28 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 2: particularly for girls older than well. Sorry, the Taliban, to 29 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 2: be clear right have banned women working and they've also 30 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 2: banned an education on girls older than the age of twelve. 31 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 2: So this pair really setting up education for young mothers 32 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 2: is treading a very fine line. And they kept adapting 33 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 2: the courses. The courses that they were running were accepted 34 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 2: by the local branch of the Taliban. However, as they 35 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 2: were going home, they were detained. The front man is 36 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 2: seventy nine years old, the woman is seventy five years old, 37 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 2: and they were returning to their home in Bamiyam when 38 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 2: they were detained. For the first couple of days of 39 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 2: their detention, they were still in touch with their daughter 40 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 2: via phone, but then all of a sudden that communication 41 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 2: has stopped, and that stopped fortnight ago, and the daughter's 42 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 2: very concerned, particularly as their father needs some drugs for 43 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 2: his poorly heart, so they're very very concerned about this. 44 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 2: The foreign officers it's aware to have been detained but 45 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 2: say that assistance is limited because the UK does not 46 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 2: recognize the Taliban, has no embassy in car Bull And 47 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 2: this couple, who everyone says are a lovely or trying 48 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 2: to do good in Afghanistan for a country that they loved, 49 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 2: and how to being detained by the Taliban. 50 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: It's a sad case, but also at the same time, 51 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:10,679 Speaker 1: they would have not known and understood exactly the risks 52 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: that they were taking. Surely, you know, you would have thought, yeah, hey, 53 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: what is up with these QR codes in Munich and Germany. 54 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:25,359 Speaker 2: Nobody knows. So one thousand stickers have been placed on 55 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 2: different graves, one per grave at three cemeteries in Munich, 56 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 2: that's the south of Germany. The stickers have got QR 57 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 2: codes and they've been put on both old and recent graves, 58 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 2: scattered around, not in particular blocks. And they've got a 59 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 2: a QR code that when you'll read it and when 60 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 2: you scan it shows the name of the person buried 61 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 2: and the location of their grave in the cemetery. Reading. 62 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 2: Of course, the words on a gravestone can be tricky 63 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 2: because of the moss and algae that builds up on 64 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 2: these things. But these small stickers three and a half 65 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 2: centimeters by five surfaced in recent days at these three cemeteries, 66 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 2: and nobody claims to have put them there, and nobody 67 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 2: knows what they're for. Police are investigating the incident. There 68 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 2: is a course of fear, particularly in Germany, that there 69 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 2: might be targeting of Jewish graves or graves from particular eras. 70 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 2: But yeah, nobody knows what these QR codes. And yet 71 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 2: they look very formal, very sort of officially printed and 72 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 2: actually do link to some solid information, but obviously loved 73 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 2: ones haven't given their permissions for them, so they're all 74 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 2: a bit at a loss. 75 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 1: Very weird, indeed, Gavin, thank you very much for that. 76 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 1: Devin Gray are UK and Europe correspondent. For more from 77 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: Hither Duplessy Alan Drive, listen live to news talks it'd 78 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.