Starlink cuts services to Myanmar scam camps

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  Today, the scam centers of Myanmar and the nightmare facing thousands of migrant workers there.

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  Some people don't have their teeth, their hands are broken, their legs are broken.

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  It was really traumatic.

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  We have an estimated maybe 200,000 victims.

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  All their human rights have been removed and they are essentially prisoners.

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  This is World Business Report from the BBC World Service.

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  Yes,

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  I'm Ed Butler and today we're going to be hearing the latest from Myanmar's border with Thailand where a multi-billion dollar criminal scam network is making billions of dollars but may now be under attack.

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  from both the Myanmar military and Elon Musk's Starlink communications firm.

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  Also, is Argentina's bailout and economic reform plan in tatters, we ask?

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  All of that coming in the next half hour.

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  But first, some breaking news for you.

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  In just the last few minutes,

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  the US Treasury Department has announced new sanctions targeting Russia's two largest oil companies.

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  Rosneft and Luke oil.

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  This is an effort to pressure Moscow to negotiate a peace deal in Ukraine.

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  President Trump has said the measures come

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  because the Kremlin is not seriously committed to a peace process for Ukraine.

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