It's today explained World Cup Edition, I'm Newell King.

In the host country cutter, leaders made a promise some years back.

Today's show is about whether it was kept.

A frenzy of construction accompanies any World Cup.

And after winning the right to host, cutter vowed to reform a very old and very exploitative

system that keeps foreign workers bonded to their employers.

Virtually, without rights, including the right to say no.

That's dangerous.

And people died on World Cup construction sites.

But no one including us can figure out how many because cutter is very secretive.

Today we're going to hear from two people who moved to cutter for work.

One a Kenyan man who tried to scrape together a living there.

And one an American researcher with a PhD who was looking into this very question.

Did cutter keep its promise?

Coming up.

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