Australia to use YouTube to curb people smuggling

SYDNEY—Australia’s government plans to post a video on YouTube of asylum seekers being sent to Malaysia as part of a pact between the countries to swap refugees.

The video will be used to help deter future asylum seekers from taking dangerous boat journeys to Australia.

The government says the asylum seekers will be filmed boarding a plane to Malaysia on Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean.

Malaysia and Australia recently agreed to swap asylum seekers in a new strategy aimed at stemming the flow of refugee hopefuls trying to reach Australia on cramped, rickety boats.

Australia will send 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia over the next four years in exchange for Australia resettling 4,000 registered refugees.