:00:04. > :00:08.. A 15-year-old who was adamant she
:00:08. > :00:11.did not want an MMR vaccine has been ordered by a high court judge to
:00:11. > :00:14.have the injection despite the objection of her mother, but in
:00:14. > :00:19.accordance with the wishes of her father. I'll be speaking to the
:00:19. > :00:27.mother's lawyer, about the judgement and the rights of a teenager to
:00:27. > :00:31.refuse treatment. More than 50 people are dead after a plying rant
:00:31. > :00:36.ship has sunk. This time 70 miles from the Italian coast.
:00:36. > :00:40.The flagship Muslim Free School has been given three weeks to get its
:00:40. > :00:43.act together or be shut down. We have an exclusive interview with the
:00:43. > :00:52.governors, defending their decision to make a non-muslim staff wear the
:00:52. > :00:56.Hijab. The female air hostesses wear a different dress to the male ones.
:00:56. > :01:00.That is a choice and a decision made by the business.
:01:00. > :01:02.And a BBC investigation in China, where prostitution is illegal,
:01:02. > :01:11.reveals the trade is operating within well known Western branded
:01:11. > :01:15.hotels. Good evening.
:01:15. > :01:18.The MMR vaccine has proved to be a dilemma for many parents. It
:01:18. > :01:21.provides protection against measles, mumps and rubella, all potentially
:01:21. > :01:24.fatal illnesses, but after the now discredited research which claimed
:01:24. > :01:31.to show a link to autism many parents did not use it. Now, over a
:01:31. > :01:35.decade later, what happens when one parent wants their children to be
:01:35. > :01:37.vaccinated and the other doesn't? The case we report on tonight
:01:37. > :01:43.involved two divorced parents and two children, one 15 and the other
:01:43. > :01:47.11. The judge upheld the wishes of the father and ordered the two
:01:47. > :01:56.children to be vaccinated. The deadline for that was today. Here's
:01:56. > :02:02.Sancha Berg. Can a 15 radio-year-old be forced to have a vaccination
:02:02. > :02:06.against their wishes in one of their parent's insists? Last month the
:02:06. > :02:10.High Court judge ordered that a 15-year-old girl and her 11-year-old
:02:10. > :02:15.sister, had to have the MMR jab by the end of today, even though they
:02:15. > :02:21.said they did not want it. The elder said she would be upset if that was
:02:21. > :02:25.in her body. The mother did not want them vaccinated either but the
:02:25. > :02:30.parents were divorced, the father brought the case. Andrew Wakefield's
:02:30. > :02:35.research, published in 1988 that triggered a panic about MMR and a
:02:35. > :02:39.possible link with autism. The mother did not want the girls
:02:39. > :02:43.vaccinated. The father agreed. Andrew Wakefield's work,
:02:43. > :02:48.discredited, had a significant national impact. As the yellow bars
:02:48. > :02:52.show, the vaccination rates dropped. They are rising but older children
:02:52. > :02:56.are vulnerable. Cases of measles, mumps, rubella have been growing.
:02:56. > :03:01.In Wales people have been queueing outside of clinics, desperate to get
:03:01. > :03:05.their children vaccinated after measles broke out there. This
:03:05. > :03:09.prompted the girl's father to change his mind. He was worried there could
:03:09. > :03:13.be serious consequences of the illnesses. He wanted the children
:03:13. > :03:18.vaccinated. The judge had to consider the
:03:18. > :03:21.childrens's concerns and their understanding of the issues. They
:03:21. > :03:26.were worried about the ingredients in the vaccine but less worried
:03:26. > :03:30.about the ingredients in medicine they may have to take if they
:03:30. > :03:36.contracted a disease. One said with the measles you just get a rash. The
:03:36. > :03:41.court-appointed Guardian was worried they were influenced by their
:03:41. > :03:44.mother, in turn, the mother gave evidence she was worried about the
:03:44. > :03:50.psychological impact on the children, especially the elder one,
:03:50. > :03:54.who had been counselled for anxiety. Parents have a choice to do what
:03:54. > :03:58.they believe. I feel that both children have grown up in a frame of
:03:58. > :04:02.mind that they were settled in and supported in the same outlook and
:04:02. > :04:07.forced now to take a different view without more positive reassurance
:04:07. > :04:12.and the recording of ingredients of the vaccine is unsatisfactory. They
:04:12. > :04:16.have a right to be informed. The older child, the more seriously
:04:16. > :04:21.her views are taken and more carefully she is listened to by the
:04:21. > :04:27.court. In the case, the judge decided that the views expressed by
:04:27. > :04:31.the 15-year-old were not suf shenly balanced or did not give weight to
:04:31. > :04:36.the positive side of the immunisation.
:04:36. > :04:40.I am aware that this is against the girl's shes but that is not the only
:04:40. > :04:46.factor. The court has to consider their level of understanding of the
:04:46. > :04:50.issues involved. And what factors influenced their views. I am not
:04:50. > :04:55.convinced there is a balance of understanding of them by the issues
:04:55. > :04:58.involved. The medical debate is settled, the
:04:58. > :05:02.lawyers say. This is the third time that the High Court has ruled that a
:05:02. > :05:04.child should have the MMR vaccine against parents' wishes it is
:05:04. > :05:08.child should have the MMR vaccine unusual for the children to have
:05:08. > :05:13.such strong objections too, the judge acknowledged it will have an
:05:13. > :05:18.impact on the family. Sancha Berg.
:05:18. > :05:20.Joining us now is the mother's solicitor, Philippa Dolan.
:05:20. > :05:23.Latest reports say at least 50 people
:05:23. > :05:31.What made the mother so sure she was acting well? The mother was sure
:05:31. > :05:36.that this was a view that the family had reached since the children were
:05:36. > :05:39.young. That it was the father who changed his mind recently. In the
:05:39. > :05:44.meantime the children have been brought up with a particular point
:05:44. > :05:50.of view, which is that if you are healthy, you eat properly, you have
:05:50. > :05:55.a good immune system, then it is not necessary to be vaccinated and that
:05:55. > :06:00.there are side effects that can be harmful.
:06:00. > :06:06.But presumably, maybe not, but one of the thing's in the father's mind
:06:06. > :06:10.is not just about the children but the grandchildren, rubella in
:06:10. > :06:15.pregnancy is devastating? Yes. They are only 15 and 11 at the moment. It
:06:15. > :06:19.would be the mother's position. She would say that the family has always
:06:19. > :06:24.discussed things with the children. They have been treated in a way that
:06:24. > :06:30.their views are respected. They have been informed. They have had family
:06:30. > :06:40.discussions. So in that sense that supports the fact that the children
:06:40. > :06:47.can make that decision when they are this age.
:06:47. > :06:50.Or when each reach a majority age. What do you think is the
:06:50. > :06:55.significance of the decision? We will have to see. I was very
:06:55. > :07:01.surprised at it. I was very surprised that a 15-year-old, who,
:07:01. > :07:07.15-year-olds are allowed to make all sorts of decisions, legally, and not
:07:07. > :07:12.having an MMR vaccination, is, I mean, this may be controversial but
:07:13. > :07:18.it is not life-threatening in the south-east of England in 2013.
:07:18. > :07:24.I know of course that you kept your distance from the daughter, you were
:07:24. > :07:29.acting for the mother, but firstly, I want to ask you the deadline for
:07:29. > :07:36.the vaccination was today, have the girls been vaccinated? No. There are
:07:36. > :07:41.practical difficulties in enforcing the order.
:07:41. > :07:44.That is at the moment an ongoing issue.
:07:44. > :07:50.If there are practical difficulties, they were not foreseen by the judge,
:07:50. > :07:55.then? I don't know. I would be surprised if they were
:07:55. > :08:01.not foreseen. So what happens now, then? I can't
:08:01. > :08:07.really say. The judge ordered the girls to be vaccinated by today, the
:08:07. > :08:12.girls have not been vaccinated. That has implications for the mother, who
:08:12. > :08:18.presumably has the responsibilities for the children as well as the
:08:18. > :08:26.father? There are no legal, at the moment, there is not a legal
:08:26. > :08:32.deadline that is a serious issue. This is John going and the parents
:08:32. > :08:36.are in discussion -- this is ongoing and the parents are in
:08:36. > :08:40.discussion. It is hoped without further litigation.
:08:40. > :08:45.It must have impact on the girls, especially the 15-year-old? It has
:08:45. > :08:50.had an impact on both of them. In the judgment it was said that they
:08:50. > :08:56.should not be treated separately. It was recognised that they both have
:08:56. > :08:59.a, they are in a situation where they are independent thinking
:08:59. > :09:05.people. The 11-year-old also feels strongly about it.
:09:05. > :09:10.Thank you very much indeed. The latest reports say at least 50
:09:10. > :09:15.people have been killed when their migrant boat capsized 70 miles off
:09:15. > :09:20.the coast of Italy, in a terrible echo of the 300 close to shore of
:09:20. > :09:26.Lampedusa a little more than a week ago. Matthew Pryce joins us now.
:09:26. > :09:33.Matthew, is the rescue effort continuing? It is, yes. Just about
:09:33. > :09:37.five minutes ago another helicopter flew across the incident itself. It
:09:37. > :09:41.is about 60 miles to the south of here. The helicopters have been
:09:41. > :09:46.bringing in the injured. Some of them who have been rescued from the
:09:46. > :09:49.sea and one woman from the airport working there told us that they are
:09:49. > :09:55.also bringing in some of those who have died.
:09:55. > :10:01.It is looking like this is not a tragedy on the scale of the disaster
:10:01. > :10:06.eight days ago off the coast of lamp deucea, today we were told that 339
:10:06. > :10:14.bodies had been found, but in terms of this one it is about 27, 28. It
:10:14. > :10:19.may go up to about 50, some Italian news outlet's are reporting, but the
:10:19. > :10:24.vast number, the larger number of people on board the vessel, 200, it
:10:24. > :10:28.looks like, they have been rescued. Part of the reason is that the
:10:28. > :10:34.Italian Navy was close to the area where the boat capsized and sank.
:10:34. > :10:39.They had also increased patrols as a direct result of last week's boat
:10:39. > :10:46.capsizing. Matthew, thank you very much.
:10:46. > :10:50.One of the the Government's flagship Free schools is on the verge of
:10:50. > :10:52.having its funding pulled, which means it faces closure. No small
:10:52. > :10:55.embarrassment for the Education Secretary Michael Gove. Al-Madinah
:10:55. > :10:59.in Derby, which has been open for little over a year, has what it's
:10:59. > :11:01.website calls a "strong Muslim ethos", but three separate
:11:01. > :11:04.investigations say the school has discriminated towards female staff,
:11:04. > :11:07.delivered a poor standard of education,and failed to ensure the
:11:07. > :11:11.safety of children. The governors who run the school have stayed
:11:11. > :11:13.resolutely silent - until now. Newsnight's Zoe Conway secured
:11:13. > :11:25.exclusive interviews with them today. Al-Madinah school is fighting
:11:25. > :11:30.to survive. The principle, the deputy principle and the head of
:11:30. > :11:34.administration have resigned. It is accused of being taken over by
:11:34. > :11:37.Islamic hard liners. Three Government agencies are
:11:37. > :11:41.investigating. The Government could shut it down. Three of the school's
:11:41. > :11:44.governors decided to give their first interview after weeks of
:11:44. > :11:50.allegations in the press. Much has been made of the school's dress
:11:50. > :11:55.code, the fact that the female teachers were asked to wear a
:11:55. > :12:00.headscarf and hijab. The very first question to ask, if
:12:00. > :12:07.you are Muslim or non-Muslim, would you be prepared to cover your hair
:12:07. > :12:12.as part of the uniform policy? As to this date, they have not refused.
:12:12. > :12:17.Even those who have succeeded for the job and those who have not.
:12:17. > :12:23.Why should they wear a headscarf if they are not a Muslim? Let's talk
:12:23. > :12:31.about the uniform. You don't expect a sorjion to not to wear his
:12:31. > :12:36.overalls, or a dentist to wear his overalls. We are saying we are proud
:12:36. > :12:39.of the uniform that we have both in the terms of what we want for our
:12:39. > :12:43.children. How do you know there are not women
:12:43. > :12:48.who, are brilliant teachers, who are not going to come to teach at your
:12:48. > :12:54.school because you require them to wear a headscarf and they don't want
:12:54. > :12:58.to? We have a right to stipulate our code of dress. We have chosen. This
:12:58. > :13:04.is the code of dress we have adopted. If we look at an air
:13:04. > :13:07.hostess. They are required to wear certain head gear, the females wear
:13:07. > :13:10.different clothes to the male. We certain head gear, the females wear
:13:10. > :13:13.are not saying that they are discriminated against it is a
:13:13. > :13:18.decision made by the decision. This is a corporate image we would like
:13:18. > :13:22.our female staff to present. That is the decision we make. We are not
:13:22. > :13:26.saying by wearing the headscarf you are changing your religious identity
:13:26. > :13:31.at all, what we are sincerely saying is that this is the code of dress we
:13:31. > :13:34.would like our female members of staff to adopt. This is the decision
:13:34. > :13:38.as an organisation we have made. Is it possible to review that? Yes, it
:13:38. > :13:42.is. The Government has told the school
:13:42. > :13:48.to write to its female staff to tell them they do not have to wear a
:13:48. > :13:52.hijab if it is in conflict with their religious beliefs, but on
:13:52. > :14:00.Tuesday, the governors got a letter from the Education Minister, Lord
:14:00. > :14:06.Nash. He said that Al-Madinah had failed to ensure pupil's safety, had
:14:06. > :14:12.a poor standard of education and had been discriminating in its practise
:14:12. > :14:15.towards female staff and was failing in financial management. Lord Nash
:14:16. > :14:20.has given them three weeks to require with 17 requirements,
:14:20. > :14:23.otherwise funding will be terminated. Allegations have been
:14:23. > :14:27.made that girls have been forced to sit at the back of the class.
:14:27. > :14:32.Nobody is forced to do anything in this school. The allegations are
:14:32. > :14:37.unfortunate. When it comes to the seating arrangements in the class,
:14:37. > :14:41.we do not have a boy/girl seating arrangement. The way that the class
:14:41. > :14:45.is designed all children are treated equally. We have girls and boys
:14:45. > :14:50.sitting in the front and the back. There is no discrimination going on.
:14:50. > :14:54.When Al-Madinah hoped -- There is no discrimination going on.
:14:55. > :14:59.year it said it would honour all faiths, but it has been reported
:14:59. > :15:03.that only one of the school's 400 pupils is non-Muslim. The governors
:15:03. > :15:08.unable or unwilling to say hourm of their children are non-Muslim.
:15:08. > :15:12.We are on a journey, there are things that we have to improve. We
:15:12. > :15:17.know that, but like everything else, it takes time. Time to nurture a
:15:17. > :15:21.flower. We are coming out of a seedling point. We have to ensure
:15:21. > :15:26.that the right practises and the teaching and the learning is
:15:26. > :15:30.effective for it to turn into an attractive flower for people to come
:15:30. > :15:35.to us to say that they are going to this school no, not because it is a
:15:35. > :15:38.Muslim faith school but it is a great school.
:15:38. > :15:43.The Government says there has been no financial mismanagement. They are
:15:43. > :15:45.expecting that Ofsted will find the teaching inadequate, but they
:15:46. > :15:51.believe that they can turn things around.
:15:51. > :15:54.??The politicians can go whistle Dixie.That was how one editor,
:15:54. > :15:56.Fraser Nelson, of the Spectator, who is here with Ben Bradshaw, the
:15:56. > :15:59.former Labour Culture Secretary, responded to today's news that the
:16:00. > :16:03.main political parties are now as one on a new system of press
:16:03. > :16:07.regulation. The Conservatives collycobbles have been banished and
:16:07. > :16:13.its all aboard the Royal Charter. Problem is, not a single newspaper
:16:13. > :16:16.is prepared to sign up. So do we now have a Mexican standoff? Before I
:16:16. > :16:24.consult our guests, the media commentator, Steve Hewlett is here.
:16:24. > :16:29.So, no agreement at all? On the big thing, no. On some things there
:16:29. > :16:39.maybe more of an agreement. So there are compromises that make a
:16:39. > :16:43.difference. Mostly, the chafrter allows local papers who were worried
:16:43. > :16:47.about the stipulation that they should be a part of a low-cost ash
:16:47. > :16:51.station scream, that they were on the financial rocks, that there
:16:51. > :16:56.could be problems that a phone call or a letter could prove... They did
:16:56. > :17:00.not show evidence that could happen but there is now a mechanism if it
:17:01. > :17:05.happens, that it could be dealt with, but on the big red line issue
:17:05. > :17:10.of the political involvement in the regulation of the press, there is no
:17:10. > :17:17.agreement. No because the charter can be changed by a two thirds vote
:17:17. > :17:22.in both houses of harment. That could bring a threat if they were
:17:22. > :17:25.choose to the political class, they could get directly involved in the
:17:25. > :17:30.regulation of the press, that is a red line.
:17:30. > :17:34.So what are the press saying about from Nelson Fraser saying go whistle
:17:34. > :17:40.Dixie. It says there is charter controlled
:17:40. > :17:43.by politician, it is not approved by the newspaper or the magazines it
:17:43. > :17:49.seeks to regulate. Are the press agreed on this? No.
:17:49. > :17:56.They are agreed not to sign up to the charter. However, here is had
:17:56. > :18:00.how it goes. The Mail, the Telegraph, the Mirror are in to set
:18:00. > :18:06.up their own regulator. The Guardian, the FT are half in. They
:18:06. > :18:09.don't want to sign up but there are contractual disagreements with the
:18:09. > :18:15.other. Guardian are half out. They don't want to sign up, and the IPCC
:18:15. > :18:21.are floating out alone. In the last two days there has been frantic
:18:21. > :18:26.phone calls. The minister Maria Miller and her shadow, phoning
:18:26. > :18:30.editors trying to get to the point where when this happens that the
:18:30. > :18:35.government does not face a united press, all of them saying "no". They
:18:35. > :18:39.are desperate to try to get someone out there on their own.
:18:39. > :18:45.Steve Hewlett, thank you very much. Nelson Fraser is the editor of the
:18:45. > :18:50.Spectator and Ben Bradshaw is the former Labour Culture Secretary.
:18:50. > :18:52.Mell Nell you could be faced with a lible suit and there could be
:18:52. > :18:56.bankruptcy issues with the Spectator lible suit and there could be
:18:56. > :19:00.as you are not in the charter, then the liabilities are limited? It is
:19:00. > :19:06.worrying that the Government is inhibited free press or penalising
:19:06. > :19:11.papers no the licensed by the proposed regulator. It has suffered
:19:11. > :19:16.a sinister turn of events. The danger is that you become too
:19:16. > :19:21.timid as you are worried about massive litigation? That is so. With
:19:21. > :19:25.papers with small budgets, they would hesitate to investigate things
:19:25. > :19:30.where you could be taken to court and pay the damages or pay expenses
:19:30. > :19:35.even if you win, but it is probably illegal under European law, but it
:19:35. > :19:39.is not very free. I don't believe that the Government will go down
:19:39. > :19:43.this road and tear up three centuries of free speech and harass
:19:43. > :19:49.the press in such a way. But it will take two of both houses
:19:49. > :19:54.to alter this. There is no chance of this, so nothing will change? Well,
:19:54. > :19:57.for nothing to change, we must not give the politicians the power to
:19:57. > :20:03.regulate the press. That is why I hope that the newspapers don't agree
:20:03. > :20:07.to this. If they do, there will be be a terrible message not just to
:20:07. > :20:12.people in Britain but around the world, this are begging newspapers
:20:12. > :20:17.not to sign up with this. Not to throw away our freedoms of speech.
:20:17. > :20:21.Others may go also. Ben Bradshaw, some papers are
:20:21. > :20:27.suggesting that they could go to the wall? That is not a correct
:20:27. > :20:31.representation. Lord Leveson said this was to save the press money. To
:20:31. > :20:36.save the press the expensive litigations of claims. I am
:20:36. > :20:40.confident that a publisher, a newspaper, a publication will come
:20:40. > :20:44.into the system, setting up a regulator, recognised by the
:20:44. > :20:48.recognition body and then the incentives you referred to, very
:20:48. > :20:52.powerful, are written into the system and kick in. Then the
:20:52. > :20:56.responsible newspapers will come into line.
:20:57. > :21:00.Name them? I don't know. Steve Hewlett is suggesting that
:21:00. > :21:04.there may be a difference of opinion, but there is nobody ready
:21:04. > :21:11.to step in right away and lead the charter? I am not surprised. A lot
:21:11. > :21:16.of the newspapers, the Guardian, the FT, the IPCC have been nervous from
:21:16. > :21:20.breaking from the Daily Mail or the Daily Telegraph, but the way it has
:21:20. > :21:23.been set up, it is independent self-regulation, guaranteeing the
:21:24. > :21:27.freedom of the press, giving the responsibility to the press to set
:21:27. > :21:32.this up with the important recognition, the public assurance.
:21:32. > :21:36.Every time it's been done before, the press have gone away, they have
:21:36. > :21:40.said they will do it. It has not happened. That is why this body is
:21:40. > :21:45.important. Once it rek nierzs a regulator, all it needs is one
:21:45. > :21:51.publisher, then the system kicks in. Somebody will break away, maybe the
:21:51. > :21:56.IPCC? I doubt it. I don't think that a paper could sign up to a
:21:56. > :22:01.regulation with politicians, like Ben here, talking about who he
:22:01. > :22:05.thinks is responsible, who is not. But financially, for the local
:22:05. > :22:09.papers it could be the only way to ensure survival? That would be
:22:09. > :22:13.terrible if it were the case. The Government bullying them to give up
:22:13. > :22:18.freedoms or face the fines. Then they should go to Strasbourg to
:22:18. > :22:21.appeal against this illiberal law. I don't think that the Government will
:22:21. > :22:27.really force the newspapers to play it their way. The newspapers will do
:22:27. > :22:30.95% of what the Government wants, they just don't want the politicians
:22:30. > :22:36.in charge. There could be an nalt form of
:22:36. > :22:41.regulation coming in? Somethinged from hacked off in the back pockets
:22:41. > :22:45.to help the impasse? I don't know. I think if you look at the definition
:22:45. > :22:50.of publisher it is broad. It does not take anybody big to set up the
:22:50. > :22:54.body. Then the system kicks in. We have had more than two years since
:22:55. > :22:58.Leveson started the inquiry. The victims are waiting, the politicians
:22:58. > :23:03.have acted, the responsibility is for the press now to set up this
:23:03. > :23:07.independent self-regulation system so that the public can regain Trust.
:23:07. > :23:11.That is what will happen. The newspapers to come up with the
:23:11. > :23:14.toughest regulation in the Western world but the politicians cannot
:23:14. > :23:17.give the press their marching orders. It is the same it has been
:23:17. > :23:25.every time. Thank you very much.
:23:25. > :23:28.In China prostitution is illegal, but the BBC has found evidence of
:23:28. > :23:30.organised prostitution inside a number of well-known,
:23:30. > :23:32.Western-branded hotels in the country, including The Ramada, The
:23:32. > :23:36.Intercontinental and Kempinski hotels. Our investigation shows that
:23:36. > :23:38.sex is being bought and sold from third party-run businesses,
:23:38. > :23:42.operating from within some hotel premises. The three I've named all
:23:42. > :23:52.deny any knowledge of what was happening.Our correspondent John
:23:52. > :23:56.Sudworth reports from Shanghai. Chairman Mao once claimed to have
:23:56. > :24:00.driven prostitution from the streets.
:24:00. > :24:07.Today, it is around almost every corner.
:24:07. > :24:12.Still Strictly illegal but thriving on the commerce and the corruption
:24:12. > :24:17.unleashed by China's modern communist leaders.
:24:17. > :24:22.But now our investigation in which we speak to prostitutes and pimps
:24:22. > :24:26.operating inside hotels that are household names in Europe and
:24:26. > :24:31.America, shows for the first time just how deeply the Chinese sex
:24:31. > :24:40.trade has infiltrated the international hotel industry.
:24:41. > :24:46.The Kempinski Hotel chain calls itself Europe's oldest luxury hotel
:24:46. > :24:53.group. Founded in Germany, now based in Switzerland, it operates more
:24:53. > :24:58.than 755-star hotels around the world, including this one in the
:24:58. > :25:06.Chinese city of Qingdao, but following the signs to the spar,
:25:06. > :25:10.there is little luxury. Just a small independently-run
:25:10. > :25:22.business from which more than ten women are bought and sold for sex.
:25:22. > :25:32.He asks do you need them once or do you want them to stay overnight, he
:25:32. > :25:37.asks? Our discussion with one of the women, cap towered on a hidden
:25:37. > :25:43.camera is a stark illustration of how easily foreign businesses in
:25:43. > :25:50.China can become tangled up in vice and criminality.
:25:50. > :25:56.TRANSLATION: I am 20-year-old. I have sex with up to three clients a
:25:56. > :26:03.day. And I'm allowed to keep 40% of the fee charged.
:26:03. > :26:08.The Kempinski Hotel is far from an isolated example.
:26:08. > :26:15.We called dozens of international hotels and asked to be put through
:26:15. > :26:21.to their spas. Right across China, in around 7% of
:26:21. > :26:35.those that we speak to, prostitution appears to be easy to arrange.
:26:36. > :26:42.We also find sex on sale inside this hotel in Qingdao managed by the
:26:42. > :26:49.British-based Intercontinental Hotels Group. The spa is under
:26:49. > :26:53.independent management, as the sign makes clear. Here, legitimate
:26:53. > :26:58.massage is the main stay of the business, but the spa also openly
:26:58. > :27:02.rents out this prostitute to those who ask.
:27:02. > :27:06.She tells us that the bill for her services can be settled at the
:27:06. > :27:11.check-out through the hotel main desk.
:27:11. > :27:16.In a statement, the Intercontinental Hotel's Group says that prostitution
:27:16. > :27:25.is Strictly prohibited inside the hotels, including businesses. Hotel
:27:25. > :27:30.staff are not knowly involved in processing bills for prostitution.
:27:30. > :27:34.It has now closed the spa. Kempinski Hotels denies knowledge of the
:27:34. > :27:40.prostitution we found. Saying that a spa was originally planned for the
:27:40. > :27:45.hotel, hence the signage but never approved nor opened.
:27:45. > :27:50.The Qingdao hotel, it says is connected to a third-party business,
:27:50. > :27:53.through a basement passage way that cannot be closed off for safety
:27:53. > :27:57.reasons. Shaun Rein spends his time advising
:27:58. > :28:02.foreign companies in China. Now more than ever, he says, they should be
:28:02. > :28:06.striving to stay clean. There is a definite reputational
:28:06. > :28:09.risk for the brands to have hookers in the hotels. Especially from the
:28:09. > :28:12.government side. They will crack in the hotels. Especially from the
:28:12. > :28:17.down and go after the foreign brands more than domestic Chinese brands in
:28:17. > :28:21.order to show the country that they are adhering to the laws. It is
:28:21. > :28:27.easier to crack down on a foreign brand than it is on the local ones.
:28:27. > :28:30.A few months ago, the British pharmaceutical giant,
:28:30. > :28:34.GlaxoSmithKline found itself on the receiving end of just such a
:28:34. > :28:39.crackdown. Accused of paying bribes to boost sales here in China. It was
:28:39. > :28:42.forced to admit that some of its employees did appear to have broken
:28:42. > :28:47.the law. Our evidence suggests that the
:28:47. > :28:51.international hotel trade is at least running the risk of handing
:28:51. > :28:56.the Chinese government another political opportunity to look tough
:28:56. > :29:02.on foreign business. This is the The Ramada Plaza in the
:29:02. > :29:07.city of Guangzhou. A reassuring mark of quality and comfort for
:29:07. > :29:13.travellers in central Khan, far from home.
:29:14. > :29:20.-- in Central China. Following the signs we find a third party-run spa.
:29:20. > :29:24.This time for the yous of male customers only. With little
:29:24. > :29:28.hesitation this man tells us that 20 women work here. He hands us a leaf
:29:28. > :29:37.the. Prostitutes, the handwriting says,
:29:37. > :29:42.800 RM B, about £85. A group of female travellers who stayed here
:29:42. > :29:46.earlier in the year, raised their suspiciouses in this review, posted
:29:46. > :29:50.on the TripAdvisor website. The Wyndham Hotel Group said that they
:29:50. > :29:59.take this very veerl. That all independently owned and operated
:29:59. > :30:04.hotels under its Ramada franchise are required to comply with the law
:30:04. > :30:10.and the company adds, it provides training to identify and stop human
:30:10. > :30:12.exploitation. Prostitution faces danger not just
:30:12. > :30:17.from the clients but with the police. With the threat of constant
:30:17. > :30:23.crackdowns, arrests and public shamings. There may be more that
:30:23. > :30:26.some hotels could be doing to keep this exploitative trade away from
:30:26. > :30:32.their doors. The companies should be negotiating
:30:32. > :30:37.with the landlords from day one. If it is going to have a spa it could
:30:37. > :30:43.be owned by a third party but managed by the employees. And they
:30:43. > :30:46.are in charge of the hours, closing earlier rather than later.
:30:46. > :30:51.The Kempinski had decided to pull from the hotel in Qingdao before the
:30:51. > :30:56.investigation. They will crease to manage it from November the 15th, a
:30:56. > :31:03.sign that a year after it opened, something has gone badly wrong.
:31:03. > :31:07.For foreign companies, China offers unlimited opportunity, but the dark
:31:07. > :31:13.underbelly of this economy is ever present. While there is big money to
:31:13. > :31:17.be made here, there are also often overlooked, big reputational risks,
:31:17. > :31:25.too. Before we go on to the rest of the
:31:25. > :31:35.papers we deal with the Mail. We have Steve Hewlett back Indeed, Paul
:31:35. > :31:38.Decker, he defends what the paper did, but the same article is in the
:31:38. > :31:45.Guardian. So both barrels for the BBC.
:31:45. > :31:49.Coverage orchestrated by Alistair Campbell. So both barrels for the
:31:49. > :31:53.BBC. A tickling for the Guardian. The
:31:53. > :31:55.article appears in the Guardian. I wonder if it may have something to
:31:55. > :31:59.do with the fact that they are wonder if it may have something to
:31:59. > :32:05.desperate to get the Guardian into the press self-regulator.
:32:05. > :32:11.And the front of the Mail: A wonder drug.
:32:11. > :32:18.The Telegraph: The scandal of an MOD cash pile. And the IPCC: The British
:32:18. > :32:24.taxpayer. The Times: Britain and Germany in a secret pact to defy EU
:32:24. > :32:27.laws. And the story in the Guardian: We should talk sensible about
:32:27. > :32:31.spying. It was once described by George
:32:31. > :32:34.Orwell as one of the most hideous buildings in the world. The Sagrada
:32:35. > :32:37.Familia in Barcelona is due to be completed now in 2026, several
:32:37. > :32:40.hundred years ahead of schedule thanks to modern stone carving
:32:40. > :32:44.techniques, and a hundred years after Antonio Gaudi himself was run
:32:44. > :32:45.over by a tram, taking the fine detail of his original design with
:32:45. > :32:52.him. Here's what it will look like.