:00:00. > :00:19.of the winged falloff. Now it is time for Reporters.
:00:20. > :00:28.Welcome to Reporters. We are in the world's newsroom where we send out
:00:29. > :00:34.correspondence to find you the best is around the globe. In this week 's
:00:35. > :00:40.programme, John Sudworth reveals prostitution in well`known western
:00:41. > :00:48.branded hotels in China. Prostitutes, it says they are about
:00:49. > :00:53.?85. Alan Johnston joins an Italian search and rescue team on the island
:00:54. > :01:02.of Lampedusa looking for those fleeing to Europe, Africa. You see
:01:03. > :01:08.how fast the Mediterranean years. You realise what an expanse of sea
:01:09. > :01:18.areas between here and North Africa. Brazil's oil boom. We report an
:01:19. > :01:24.offshore finds that could make it the biggest in South America. And
:01:25. > :01:31.inspiring a new national spirit. Afghanistan 's first ever football
:01:32. > :01:34.league season kicks off. In a country still suffering from the
:01:35. > :01:39.chaos and injustice of war they are celebrating a game at where you play
:01:40. > :01:47.by the rules, where the referee 's word is final. We start with a BBC
:01:48. > :01:50.investigation in China which has uncovered evidence of organised
:01:51. > :01:54.prostitution inside a number of the country 's well`known western
:01:55. > :01:59.branded hotels. Our investigation shows that sex is being bought and
:02:00. > :02:07.sold from third`party run businesses operating from within some hotels.
:02:08. > :02:17.The hotels all deny any knowledge of the practice. Prostitution is
:02:18. > :02:23.illegal in China. Chairman Mao once claimed to have driven prostitution
:02:24. > :02:33.from the streets. Today it's around every corner. Still strictly illegal
:02:34. > :02:40.but thriving on the commerce and corruption unleashed by China's
:02:41. > :02:45.modern Communist leaders. But now our investigation in which we speak
:02:46. > :02:48.to prostitutes and pimps operating inside hotels that are household
:02:49. > :02:54.names in Europe and America shows for the first time how deeply the
:02:55. > :03:05.Chinese sex trade has infiltrated the international hotel industry.
:03:06. > :03:10.This hotel chain calls itself the Europe's oldest luxury hotel group.
:03:11. > :03:19.Founded in Germany, now based in Switzerland, it operates more than
:03:20. > :03:30.75 `` 70 five star hotels. Including this one. Following the size to the
:03:31. > :03:33.spa we find a little luxury. `` following the signs. Just a small
:03:34. > :03:44.independently run business from which more than ten women are bought
:03:45. > :03:52.and sold for sex. You need them just once ordered you want them to stay
:03:53. > :03:58.overnight, this man asks. `` or do you want them to stay overnight. Our
:03:59. > :04:01.discussion with one of the women captured on a hidden camera is a
:04:02. > :04:05.stark illustration of just how easily foreign businesses in China
:04:06. > :04:14.can become tangled up in price and criminality. She tells me she is 20
:04:15. > :04:26.years old and has sex without 23 clients a day and is allowed to keep
:04:27. > :04:33.just 40% of the feature. `` sex with up to three clients. This is not an
:04:34. > :04:40.isolated example. We called dozens of international hotels and asked to
:04:41. > :04:45.be put through to their spas. Right across China, in around 7% of those
:04:46. > :05:02.we speak to, prostitution appears to be easy to arrange. We also find sex
:05:03. > :05:04.on sale inside this hotel, managed by the British`based
:05:05. > :05:11.Intercontinental hotels group. The spa on the second floor is under
:05:12. > :05:14.independent management, as the science make clear. Here, legitimate
:05:15. > :05:21.massage is the mainstay of the business. `` as the signings make
:05:22. > :05:27.clear. They also rent out this prostitute to those who asked. She
:05:28. > :05:32.tells us that the bill for her services can be settled at checkout
:05:33. > :05:39.through the hotel main desk. In a statement, the internode ``
:05:40. > :05:43.Intercontinental hotels group says prostitution is strictly prohibited
:05:44. > :05:48.within its hotels including third parties. Hotel staff, it says, have
:05:49. > :05:57.not knowingly been involved in processing bills for prostitution.
:05:58. > :06:02.It has now close the spa. Camping ski hotels also deny knowledge. They
:06:03. > :06:08.say that a spa was originally planned for the hotel bus never
:06:09. > :06:12.approved nor open. They say that this hotel is connected to a third
:06:13. > :06:18.party business through a basement passageway. Nothing is more
:06:19. > :06:25.important than your reputation... This man spends his time advising
:06:26. > :06:29.foreign companies in China. He says there should be striving to stay
:06:30. > :06:33.clean. There is a reputational risk for the brands to have cookers in
:06:34. > :06:38.the hotels, especially from the government 's side. They will crack
:06:39. > :06:40.down and go after foreign brands rather than domestic Chinese brands
:06:41. > :06:45.in order to show the country that they are adhering to the laws. It is
:06:46. > :06:51.easy to crack down on a foreign brand than on local ones. A few
:06:52. > :06:55.months ago the British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline
:06:56. > :07:00.found itself on the receiving end of just such a crackdown, accused of
:07:01. > :07:04.paying bribes to boost sales here in China. It was forced to admit that
:07:05. > :07:11.some of its employees did appear to have broken the law. Our evidence
:07:12. > :07:14.suggests that the international hotel trade is running the risk of
:07:15. > :07:21.handing the Chinese government another political opportunity to
:07:22. > :07:24.look tough on pop `` to look tough on foreign business. Prostitutes in
:07:25. > :07:29.China faced danger not just from clients, but the police, with the
:07:30. > :07:33.constant threat of crackdowns, arrests, and public shaming is.
:07:34. > :07:39.There may be more that some hotels could be doing to keep this
:07:40. > :07:43.exploitative trade away from their doors. The company should be
:07:44. > :07:49.negotiating with the landlords, with the owners, from day one that if
:07:50. > :07:52.they are going to run a spa that he can be owned by a third party but
:07:53. > :08:00.initially managed by their employees and they need to be in charge of the
:08:01. > :08:05.hours. They had a ready decided to pull out of the hotel before our
:08:06. > :08:10.investigation. They will cease to manage it from November the 15th, a
:08:11. > :08:18.sign that just one year after it opened something has gone badly
:08:19. > :08:22.wrong. For foreign companies, China offers unlimited opportunity, but
:08:23. > :08:27.the dark underbelly of this economy is ever present. While there is big
:08:28. > :08:35.money to be made here, there are often overlooked big reputation
:08:36. > :08:42.risks as well. The waters around the Italian island
:08:43. > :08:46.of Lampedusa have become a focal point for the plight of migrants
:08:47. > :08:55.fleeing Africa. Hundreds have died in recent weeks time to reach
:08:56. > :09:00.Italian territory. The government of Sicily has a state of emergency as
:09:01. > :09:04.they try to deal with this. Alan Johnston joins a search and rescue
:09:05. > :09:11.team. A dangerous stretch of sea. Hundreds
:09:12. > :09:18.have drowned down there. The pilots watch the horizon for mild boats
:09:19. > :09:22.from Libya `` Libya. Crowded and unseaworthy they are disasters
:09:23. > :09:27.waiting to happen. The raider helps, but which dot in the screen is a
:09:28. > :09:31.fishing trawler and which a boat packed with migrants? What really
:09:32. > :09:39.strikes you up here is just how fast the Mediterranean years. New Fearley
:09:40. > :09:48.`` you fully realise what an expanse it is. You appreciate how hard it is
:09:49. > :09:53.to cross this expanse of water safely. Some of those who risked
:09:54. > :09:59.their lives at sea and won a gamble, migrants from Africa and the Middle
:10:00. > :10:03.East who made it, moving on to mainland Italy, hoping their dream
:10:04. > :10:09.of a new life in Europe is about to come true. As they watch, the
:10:10. > :10:17.helicopter crews live with their memories of the last rescue. I saw
:10:18. > :10:25.many people in the water. They were trying to Save the Children or save
:10:26. > :10:29.themselves. Like their colleagues aboard the
:10:30. > :10:35.helicopters, the crew of this coastguard vessel has been in the
:10:36. > :10:40.thick of many rescues. Here on the bridge, it you get a sense of the
:10:41. > :10:47.sea area that we are talking about. There you have Sicily, at here the
:10:48. > :10:54.coast of Tunisia, and their Libya. And that is tiny Lampedusa island.
:10:55. > :11:00.And this coastguard is looking to intercept in this area boats loaded
:11:01. > :11:09.with migrants coming mostly the States from Libya. In general, when
:11:10. > :11:15.we intercept these ships that are little fishing vessels of Ward or
:11:16. > :11:33.rubber boats, the situation is dangerous. `` wood. We keep the
:11:34. > :11:40.migrants and we take them on board a ship.
:11:41. > :11:45.Reinforcements are coming. Ships like this are already patrolling.
:11:46. > :11:52.More are on the way. More helicopters as well. For the first
:11:53. > :11:57.time, unmanned drone aircraft will scan the sea. But so many people see
:11:58. > :12:02.these waters as the route to better lives, the promised land of Europe.
:12:03. > :12:07.As long as they keep coming in a dangerous boats, no matter how me
:12:08. > :12:18.patrols thereafter, another disaster is always possible at any moment.
:12:19. > :12:27.It is one of the biggest offshore call deposits are found. It is
:12:28. > :12:31.Brazil's made oil producer. Off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, it can be
:12:32. > :12:38.Brazil's output. That is more than Mexico or Venezuela. There are
:12:39. > :12:42.concerns Brazil is not making it easy for developers to join its oil
:12:43. > :12:47.boom. Our correspondent has more. Resort is about to join the big
:12:48. > :12:52.league. Anyone who is a player in the oil business is heading south.
:12:53. > :12:55.Deep beneath these waves is the Bradfield, one of the largest
:12:56. > :13:01.offshore deposits and are found. Brazil is selling them to develop
:13:02. > :13:08.the area. There are some pretty tight strings attached. This is
:13:09. > :13:13.Brazil's new frontier. The opportunities are almost endless.
:13:14. > :13:18.The new field is on stream. There will be an extra 2 million oil
:13:19. > :13:23.barrels for Brazil, earning trillions of dollars for the
:13:24. > :13:27.economy. To the north of Rio de Janeiro, in the Finnish `` fishing
:13:28. > :13:31.village, oil is taken over. The multinationals, contractors and
:13:32. > :13:36.their support vessels are queueing up for their share of the windfall.
:13:37. > :13:42.British companies are also investing heavily in Brazil's oil boom.
:13:43. > :13:46.Neither BP or Bee Gee joined in the heavily regulated bidding process
:13:47. > :13:52.for the Libra field. Smaller specialised contractors like the
:13:53. > :14:02.Schweiger of Sega have to be when the oil is now group `` now. Every
:14:03. > :14:08.day, there is less oil and gas. These companies do not look to
:14:09. > :14:15.Africa or South America as a future. Their business will shrink. Brazil
:14:16. > :14:19.is training hundreds of workers from poorer part of the country to work
:14:20. > :14:21.on the oil platforms. There are concerns it has neither the
:14:22. > :14:26.experience or the infrastructure to double its daily output to 4 million
:14:27. > :14:33.barrels of oil. The Libra field comes online. The head of Brazil's
:14:34. > :14:36.national agency dismisses suggestions that the country's state
:14:37. > :14:43.dominated spectre cannot cope with such a huge challenge. We are
:14:44. > :14:50.working on new platforms, new drilling rigs, new pipelines. We are
:14:51. > :14:55.exporting gas. Everything is happening in Brazil in the correct
:14:56. > :15:02.pace. We are confident that everything will be OK. Oil has
:15:03. > :15:08.always proved to be a blessing and a curse. On this improv ridged
:15:09. > :15:11.fringes, some improvements are finally being made to people 's
:15:12. > :15:20.lives. What brittle does with the windfall from the Libra auction will
:15:21. > :15:27.be watched very closely here. Another Taliban, spot `` sport
:15:28. > :15:33.stadiums in Afghanistan sported more executions that football matches.
:15:34. > :15:36.Times have changed. This week, after Scott a rare sporting treat. The
:15:37. > :15:40.football season `` season kicked off in Kabul. The power of sport can
:15:41. > :15:51.inspire a new national spirit. Our correspondent has more.
:15:52. > :16:00.Days like this are rare, for a generation that has only known war,
:16:01. > :16:05.division and destruction. Sport is now building a new spirit. It is
:16:06. > :16:20.making the people proud to be Afghan. The war has not gone away. A
:16:21. > :16:27.neat helicopter lands at a nearby base. Afghan forces protect these
:16:28. > :16:32.grounds. `` NATO helicopter. Kabul, in yellow, take on the Norton team
:16:33. > :16:35.is brand`new stadium. They are the best of eight clubs that cut across
:16:36. > :16:43.the ethnic lines that still divide this society. Number format, dreams
:16:44. > :16:50.of being a footballer from the first day he set foot in Kabul's old guard
:16:51. > :16:51.stadium. The infamous as the State where the Taliban carried out harsh
:16:52. > :17:04.Islamic punishments. TRANSLATION: . At home with his family, he
:17:05. > :17:09.remembers those years as the worst in his career. TRANSLATION: Before
:17:10. > :17:15.one much, the Taliban in a person and shot him times. Two and others
:17:16. > :17:18.were bought in. There heads were agitated. After that, nobody was
:17:19. > :17:26.interested in seeing football in the stadium. Now the nation is watching.
:17:27. > :17:33.From the President to 12 `year`old Sammy, who said he was to be a
:17:34. > :17:36.footballer just like his brother. Live coverage on TV brings football
:17:37. > :17:43.into Afghan homes, unthinkable years ago. The Premier League was even
:17:44. > :17:54.created through at reality TV show and `` in the popular network.
:17:55. > :18:05.Football is due to the new fame to urge kids to stay off drugs and stay
:18:06. > :18:07.in school. There are many Afghans around the country. If players go
:18:08. > :18:17.back to their districts and provinces, everybody knows them.
:18:18. > :18:22.They can be goodwill ambassadors for many issues. At the same time, they
:18:23. > :18:32.are role models for millions of kids. But they still have to play
:18:33. > :18:41.well and strictly by the rules. In this world, misbehaviour is punished
:18:42. > :18:54.immediately. The Kabul team gets instant justice.
:18:55. > :19:00.In a country still suffering from the chaos and injustice of war, they
:19:01. > :19:06.are celebrating again, where you play by the rules, where the
:19:07. > :19:14.referee's words are final. They hope that some day FairPlay will define
:19:15. > :19:19.Afghanistan as well. Activists usually spend their time worrying
:19:20. > :19:22.about human rights abuses. A day at the boys even breaking `` even
:19:23. > :19:41.brings him a bit of cheer. When he meets a fellow activist with
:19:42. > :19:45.their usual hangout, football is part of the little debate,
:19:46. > :19:49.especially the national side's recent trial `` came over India,
:19:50. > :19:55.making them champions. 11 men brought pride to the people. None of
:19:56. > :19:59.them held a gun. It is a new narrative of what it is to be a
:20:00. > :20:05.hero. I hope it is in this election realise that. They still some space
:20:06. > :20:10.between the dominant political activists and the new state. How
:20:11. > :20:17.that will play out in the elections remain to be seen. We hope to play
:20:18. > :20:24.by the rules. This board is powerful. It can change and more
:20:25. > :20:30.hard and violence political culture. If we play together with a common
:20:31. > :20:33.goal, and if we do not think about the short`term benefits and think
:20:34. > :20:38.about the big ambition, the bigger goal, I think we can repeat the
:20:39. > :20:43.success we had in sport and in the political field as well. In sport,
:20:44. > :20:52.there is only one winner. Kabul team triumphs, 3`1 in extra time. There
:20:53. > :20:58.is another victory. TRANSLATION: My happiness has doubled. I've always
:20:59. > :21:05.dreamt of being this player. We have won the game and I am the man of the
:21:06. > :21:09.match. Well done. That is how it feels when you are a winner in
:21:10. > :21:15.Afghanistan. It is a great day for the Kabul team. The crisis and
:21:16. > :21:18.acting like this today. This is a game that is win`win for a country
:21:19. > :21:26.that has had all too little of this kind of celebration. A feelgood
:21:27. > :21:31.moment is precious. Chitin decades of violence division, much harder.
:21:32. > :21:36.But this rare presence of hope create a powerful sense of what
:21:37. > :21:42.could be possible. `` change in decades.
:21:43. > :21:57.That is all from Reporters for this week. Goodbye for now.
:21:58. > :22:11.More showers out there. It will stay mild on Sunday. Pleasant enough when
:22:12. > :22:17.the sun is out. Showers are not too far away. Lots of them are around,
:22:18. > :22:20.with hail and thunder and gusty winds. The belt of cloud will sit
:22:21. > :22:25.across northern parts of the UK. These shower clouds follow behind.
:22:26. > :22:26.These showers are working its way across