Police in the Philippines have arrested 58 people involved in an Internet extortion network. Theyare accused of posting fake profiles to socialnetwork sites, luring mostly elderly men intoexposing themselves in video chats which thenfilmed and used to blackmail them for money.

Basically what's been going on here is that criminals have now taken advantage of technologyand in particularly, social networking site where they are creating multiple fake profiles tobefriend as many people as possible. And the aim was of this is to encourage the person thatbefriended into having sex over the Internet in front of the webcam and unknown to theperson this is filmed and recorded it. And then she used a blackmail further on. Many of thesefirms are so well-organized like a traditional business with the staff that they have got. Sothey really are very well-organized. And it enables them to commit crime all over the worldrather than traditionally where they may have been confined to their own country.

And these are mostly men, it seems, to think they are striking up kind of interval relationshipover the Internet with a woman. It turns out that they are not. What kind of money isextorted from them?

It varies anything from a few hundred pounds through to few thousand dollars. And it'swhatever they think that they can afford. It's very similar and very specialized to some of theother form we've seen in particular countries, some countries where teams have got togetherand they are specialized in skimming cards. Others have specialized in other types of fraud.I guess it's possibly also the fact that Philippines does well in tourist from westernized countries to the Philippines.

The US Secretary of States John Kerry says the South Sudan President Salva Kiir has agreed topeace talks aimed at ending the conflict there. Mr. Kerry was speaking after the talks with thepresident in the capital Juba.

I've told President Kiir that the choices that both he and the opposition face are stark and clear and that the unspeakable human costs that we have seen over the course of last month and which could even grow if they fail to sit down are unacceptable to the global community.