Sunday Night

2013-05-12 (2013x10)

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Abandoned Miracle Survivors ABBA By Demand Abandoned Five hundred flights a month will deliver over one million Australians to the United Arab Emirates in the next year after Qantas changed airline partners and long haul routes. One of the most popular tourist spots, Dubai, is being promoted as a luxury high class paradise in the desert – but the reality is brutally different. Aussie Alicia Gali knows. The 31-year-old’s life was changed forever when she took a job in the UAE with one of the world’s biggest hotel chains. She was using her laptop in the staff bar one night when her drink was spiked. She passed out, and woke to a nightmare beyond belief. She had been savagely raped by three of her colleagues. Injured, scared and alone in a foreign country, she took herself to hospital. What Alicia didn’t know is that under strict Islamic law being raped in the UAE is a crime. She was charged with having illicit sexual intercourse outside of marriage, and thrown in jail for eight months. Australian diplomats could have saved Alicia, but did nothing. Back in Australia, more government bureaucrats pressured Alicia’s mother and family to stay quiet and not make a “fuss”. The UAE is one of Australia’s biggest trade partners in the region. Now, finally home and struggling to move on with her life, Alicia speaks out for the first time. Reporter Ross Coulthart also speaks to the English girl jailed for kissing a male friend on the cheek in a UAE restaurant. The exclusive shocking story every Australian traveller must watch. Miracle Survivors The secrets behind history’s greatest survival story revealed for the first time. When their plane crashed high in the Andes in deep snow, it’s a miracle that anyone lived through it. Forty footy mates, their friends and family, and five crew, lost in the wilderness when the plane came down. Seventy two days later, only 16 would be left. In freezing conditions of minus 30 degrees, surrounded by a blanket o