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of the winged falloff. Now it is time for Reporters.

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Welcome to Reporters. We are in the world's newsroom where we send out

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correspondence to find you the best is around the globe. In this week 's

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programme, John Sudworth reveals prostitution in well`known western

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branded hotels in China. Prostitutes, it says they are about

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?85. Alan Johnston joins an Italian search and rescue team on the island

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of Lampedusa looking for those fleeing to Europe, Africa. You see

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how fast the Mediterranean years. You realise what an expanse of sea

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areas between here and North Africa. Brazil's oil boom. We report an

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offshore finds that could make it the biggest in South America. And

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inspiring a new national spirit. Afghanistan 's first ever football

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league season kicks off. In a country still suffering from the

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chaos and injustice of war they are celebrating a game at where you play

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by the rules, where the referee 's word is final. We start with a BBC

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investigation in China which has uncovered evidence of organised

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prostitution inside a number of the country 's well`known western

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branded hotels. Our investigation shows that sex is being bought and

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sold from third`party run businesses operating from within some hotels.

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The hotels all deny any knowledge of the practice. Prostitution is

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illegal in China. Chairman Mao once claimed to have driven prostitution

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from the streets. Today it's around every corner. Still strictly illegal

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but thriving on the commerce and corruption unleashed by China's

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modern Communist leaders. But now our investigation in which we speak

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to prostitutes and pimps operating inside hotels that are household

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names in Europe and America shows for the first time how deeply the

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Chinese sex trade has infiltrated the international hotel industry.

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This hotel chain calls itself the Europe's oldest luxury hotel group.

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Founded in Germany, now based in Switzerland, it operates more than

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75 `` 70 five star hotels. Including this one. Following the size to the

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spa we find a little luxury. `` following the signs. Just a small

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independently run business from which more than ten women are bought

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and sold for sex. You need them just once ordered you want them to stay

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overnight, this man asks. `` or do you want them to stay overnight. Our

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discussion with one of the women captured on a hidden camera is a

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stark illustration of just how easily foreign businesses in China

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can become tangled up in price and criminality. She tells me she is 20

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years old and has sex without 23 clients a day and is allowed to keep

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just 40% of the feature. `` sex with up to three clients. This is not an

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isolated example. We called dozens of international hotels and asked to

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be put through to their spas. Right across China, in around 7% of those

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we speak to, prostitution appears to be easy to arrange. We also find sex

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on sale inside this hotel, managed by the British`based

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Intercontinental hotels group. The spa on the second floor is under

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independent management, as the science make clear. Here, legitimate

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massage is the mainstay of the business. `` as the signings make

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clear. They also rent out this prostitute to those who asked. She

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tells us that the bill for her services can be settled at checkout

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through the hotel main desk. In a statement, the internode ``

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Intercontinental hotels group says prostitution is strictly prohibited

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within its hotels including third parties. Hotel staff, it says, have

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not knowingly been involved in processing bills for prostitution.

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It has now close the spa. Camping ski hotels also deny knowledge. They

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say that a spa was originally planned for the hotel bus never

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approved nor open. They say that this hotel is connected to a third

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party business through a basement passageway. Nothing is more

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important than your reputation... This man spends his time advising

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foreign companies in China. He says there should be striving to stay

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clean. There is a reputational risk for the brands to have cookers in

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the hotels, especially from the government 's side. They will crack

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down and go after foreign brands rather than domestic Chinese brands

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in order to show the country that they are adhering to the laws. It is

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easy to crack down on a foreign brand than on local ones. A few

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months ago the British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline

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found itself on the receiving end of just such a crackdown, accused of

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paying bribes to boost sales here in China. It was forced to admit that

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some of its employees did appear to have broken the law. Our evidence

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suggests that the international hotel trade is running the risk of

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handing the Chinese government another political opportunity to

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look tough on pop `` to look tough on foreign business. Prostitutes in

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China faced danger not just from clients, but the police, with the

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constant threat of crackdowns, arrests, and public shaming is.

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There may be more that some hotels could be doing to keep this

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exploitative trade away from their doors. The company should be

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negotiating with the landlords, with the owners, from day one that if

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they are going to run a spa that he can be owned by a third party but

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initially managed by their employees and they need to be in charge of the

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hours. They had a ready decided to pull out of the hotel before our

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investigation. They will cease to manage it from November the 15th, a

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sign that just one year after it opened something has gone badly

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wrong. For foreign companies, China offers unlimited opportunity, but

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the dark underbelly of this economy is ever present. While there is big

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money to be made here, there are often overlooked big reputation

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risks as well. The waters around the Italian island

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of Lampedusa have become a focal point for the plight of migrants

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fleeing Africa. Hundreds have died in recent weeks time to reach

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Italian territory. The government of Sicily has a state of emergency as

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they try to deal with this. Alan Johnston joins a search and rescue

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team. A dangerous stretch of sea. Hundreds

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have drowned down there. The pilots watch the horizon for mild boats

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from Libya `` Libya. Crowded and unseaworthy they are disasters

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waiting to happen. The raider helps, but which dot in the screen is a

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fishing trawler and which a boat packed with migrants? What really

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strikes you up here is just how fast the Mediterranean years. New Fearley

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`` you fully realise what an expanse it is. You appreciate how hard it is

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to cross this expanse of water safely. Some of those who risked

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their lives at sea and won a gamble, migrants from Africa and the Middle

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East who made it, moving on to mainland Italy, hoping their dream

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of a new life in Europe is about to come true. As they watch, the

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helicopter crews live with their memories of the last rescue. I saw

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many people in the water. They were trying to Save the Children or save

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themselves. Like their colleagues aboard the

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helicopters, the crew of this coastguard vessel has been in the

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thick of many rescues. Here on the bridge, it you get a sense of the

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sea area that we are talking about. There you have Sicily, at here the

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coast of Tunisia, and their Libya. And that is tiny Lampedusa island.

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And this coastguard is looking to intercept in this area boats loaded

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with migrants coming mostly the States from Libya. In general, when

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we intercept these ships that are little fishing vessels of Ward or

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rubber boats, the situation is dangerous. `` wood. We keep the

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migrants and we take them on board a ship.

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Reinforcements are coming. Ships like this are already patrolling.

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More are on the way. More helicopters as well. For the first

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time, unmanned drone aircraft will scan the sea. But so many people see

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these waters as the route to better lives, the promised land of Europe.

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As long as they keep coming in a dangerous boats, no matter how me

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patrols thereafter, another disaster is always possible at any moment.

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It is one of the biggest offshore call deposits are found. It is

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Brazil's made oil producer. Off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, it can be

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Brazil's output. That is more than Mexico or Venezuela. There are

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concerns Brazil is not making it easy for developers to join its oil

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boom. Our correspondent has more. Resort is about to join the big

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league. Anyone who is a player in the oil business is heading south.

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Deep beneath these waves is the Bradfield, one of the largest

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offshore deposits and are found. Brazil is selling them to develop

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the area. There are some pretty tight strings attached. This is

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Brazil's new frontier. The opportunities are almost endless.

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The new field is on stream. There will be an extra 2 million oil

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barrels for Brazil, earning trillions of dollars for the

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economy. To the north of Rio de Janeiro, in the Finnish `` fishing

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village, oil is taken over. The multinationals, contractors and

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their support vessels are queueing up for their share of the windfall.

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British companies are also investing heavily in Brazil's oil boom.

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Neither BP or Bee Gee joined in the heavily regulated bidding process

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for the Libra field. Smaller specialised contractors like the

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Schweiger of Sega have to be when the oil is now group `` now. Every

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day, there is less oil and gas. These companies do not look to

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Africa or South America as a future. Their business will shrink. Brazil

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is training hundreds of workers from poorer part of the country to work

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on the oil platforms. There are concerns it has neither the

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experience or the infrastructure to double its daily output to 4 million

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barrels of oil. The Libra field comes online. The head of Brazil's

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national agency dismisses suggestions that the country's state

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dominated spectre cannot cope with such a huge challenge. We are

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working on new platforms, new drilling rigs, new pipelines. We are

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exporting gas. Everything is happening in Brazil in the correct

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pace. We are confident that everything will be OK. Oil has

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always proved to be a blessing and a curse. On this improv ridged

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fringes, some improvements are finally being made to people 's

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lives. What brittle does with the windfall from the Libra auction will

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be watched very closely here. Another Taliban, spot `` sport

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stadiums in Afghanistan sported more executions that football matches.

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Times have changed. This week, after Scott a rare sporting treat. The

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football season `` season kicked off in Kabul. The power of sport can

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inspire a new national spirit. Our correspondent has more.

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Days like this are rare, for a generation that has only known war,

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division and destruction. Sport is now building a new spirit. It is

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making the people proud to be Afghan. The war has not gone away. A

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neat helicopter lands at a nearby base. Afghan forces protect these

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grounds. `` NATO helicopter. Kabul, in yellow, take on the Norton team

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is brand`new stadium. They are the best of eight clubs that cut across

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the ethnic lines that still divide this society. Number format, dreams

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of being a footballer from the first day he set foot in Kabul's old guard

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stadium. The infamous as the State where the Taliban carried out harsh

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Islamic punishments. TRANSLATION: . At home with his family, he

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remembers those years as the worst in his career. TRANSLATION: Before

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one much, the Taliban in a person and shot him times. Two and others

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were bought in. There heads were agitated. After that, nobody was

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interested in seeing football in the stadium. Now the nation is watching.

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From the President to 12 `year`old Sammy, who said he was to be a

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footballer just like his brother. Live coverage on TV brings football

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into Afghan homes, unthinkable years ago. The Premier League was even

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created through at reality TV show and `` in the popular network.

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Football is due to the new fame to urge kids to stay off drugs and stay

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in school. There are many Afghans around the country. If players go

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back to their districts and provinces, everybody knows them.

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They can be goodwill ambassadors for many issues. At the same time, they

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are role models for millions of kids. But they still have to play

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well and strictly by the rules. In this world, misbehaviour is punished

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immediately. The Kabul team gets instant justice.

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In a country still suffering from the chaos and injustice of war, they

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are celebrating again, where you play by the rules, where the

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referee's words are final. They hope that some day FairPlay will define

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Afghanistan as well. Activists usually spend their time worrying

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about human rights abuses. A day at the boys even breaking `` even

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brings him a bit of cheer. When he meets a fellow activist with

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their usual hangout, football is part of the little debate,

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especially the national side's recent trial `` came over India,

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making them champions. 11 men brought pride to the people. None of

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them held a gun. It is a new narrative of what it is to be a

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hero. I hope it is in this election realise that. They still some space

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between the dominant political activists and the new state. How

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that will play out in the elections remain to be seen. We hope to play

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by the rules. This board is powerful. It can change and more

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hard and violence political culture. If we play together with a common

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goal, and if we do not think about the short`term benefits and think

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about the big ambition, the bigger goal, I think we can repeat the

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success we had in sport and in the political field as well. In sport,

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there is only one winner. Kabul team triumphs, 3`1 in extra time. There

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is another victory. TRANSLATION: My happiness has doubled. I've always

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dreamt of being this player. We have won the game and I am the man of the

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match. Well done. That is how it feels when you are a winner in

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Afghanistan. It is a great day for the Kabul team. The crisis and

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acting like this today. This is a game that is win`win for a country

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that has had all too little of this kind of celebration. A feelgood

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moment is precious. Chitin decades of violence division, much harder.

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But this rare presence of hope create a powerful sense of what

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could be possible. `` change in decades.

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That is all from Reporters for this week. Goodbye for now.

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More showers out there. It will stay mild on Sunday. Pleasant enough when

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the sun is out. Showers are not too far away. Lots of them are around,

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with hail and thunder and gusty winds. The belt of cloud will sit

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across northern parts of the UK. These shower clouds follow behind.

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These showers are working its way across

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