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of the winged falloff. Now it is time for Reporters. | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
Welcome to Reporters. We are in the world's newsroom where we send out | :00:20. | :00:28. | |
correspondence to find you the best is around the globe. In this week 's | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
programme, John Sudworth reveals prostitution in well`known western | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
branded hotels in China. Prostitutes, it says they are about | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
?85. Alan Johnston joins an Italian search and rescue team on the island | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
of Lampedusa looking for those fleeing to Europe, Africa. You see | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
how fast the Mediterranean years. You realise what an expanse of sea | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
areas between here and North Africa. Brazil's oil boom. We report an | :01:09. | :01:18. | |
offshore finds that could make it the biggest in South America. And | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
inspiring a new national spirit. Afghanistan 's first ever football | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
league season kicks off. In a country still suffering from the | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
chaos and injustice of war they are celebrating a game at where you play | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
by the rules, where the referee 's word is final. We start with a BBC | :01:40. | :01:47. | |
investigation in China which has uncovered evidence of organised | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
prostitution inside a number of the country 's well`known western | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
branded hotels. Our investigation shows that sex is being bought and | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
sold from third`party run businesses operating from within some hotels. | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
The hotels all deny any knowledge of the practice. Prostitution is | :02:08. | :02:17. | |
illegal in China. Chairman Mao once claimed to have driven prostitution | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
from the streets. Today it's around every corner. Still strictly illegal | :02:24. | :02:33. | |
but thriving on the commerce and corruption unleashed by China's | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
modern Communist leaders. But now our investigation in which we speak | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
to prostitutes and pimps operating inside hotels that are household | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
names in Europe and America shows for the first time how deeply the | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
Chinese sex trade has infiltrated the international hotel industry. | :02:55. | :03:05. | |
This hotel chain calls itself the Europe's oldest luxury hotel group. | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
Founded in Germany, now based in Switzerland, it operates more than | :03:11. | :03:19. | |
75 `` 70 five star hotels. Including this one. Following the size to the | :03:20. | :03:30. | |
spa we find a little luxury. `` following the signs. Just a small | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
independently run business from which more than ten women are bought | :03:34. | :03:44. | |
and sold for sex. You need them just once ordered you want them to stay | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
overnight, this man asks. `` or do you want them to stay overnight. Our | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
discussion with one of the women captured on a hidden camera is a | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
stark illustration of just how easily foreign businesses in China | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
can become tangled up in price and criminality. She tells me she is 20 | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
years old and has sex without 23 clients a day and is allowed to keep | :04:15. | :04:26. | |
just 40% of the feature. `` sex with up to three clients. This is not an | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
isolated example. We called dozens of international hotels and asked to | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
be put through to their spas. Right across China, in around 7% of those | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
we speak to, prostitution appears to be easy to arrange. We also find sex | :04:46. | :05:02. | |
on sale inside this hotel, managed by the British`based | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
Intercontinental hotels group. The spa on the second floor is under | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
independent management, as the science make clear. Here, legitimate | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
massage is the mainstay of the business. `` as the signings make | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
clear. They also rent out this prostitute to those who asked. She | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
tells us that the bill for her services can be settled at checkout | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
through the hotel main desk. In a statement, the internode `` | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
Intercontinental hotels group says prostitution is strictly prohibited | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
within its hotels including third parties. Hotel staff, it says, have | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
not knowingly been involved in processing bills for prostitution. | :05:49. | :05:57. | |
It has now close the spa. Camping ski hotels also deny knowledge. They | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
say that a spa was originally planned for the hotel bus never | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
approved nor open. They say that this hotel is connected to a third | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
party business through a basement passageway. Nothing is more | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
important than your reputation... This man spends his time advising | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
foreign companies in China. He says there should be striving to stay | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
clean. There is a reputational risk for the brands to have cookers in | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
the hotels, especially from the government 's side. They will crack | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
down and go after foreign brands rather than domestic Chinese brands | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
in order to show the country that they are adhering to the laws. It is | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
easy to crack down on a foreign brand than on local ones. A few | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
months ago the British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
found itself on the receiving end of just such a crackdown, accused of | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
paying bribes to boost sales here in China. It was forced to admit that | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
some of its employees did appear to have broken the law. Our evidence | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
suggests that the international hotel trade is running the risk of | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
handing the Chinese government another political opportunity to | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
look tough on pop `` to look tough on foreign business. Prostitutes in | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
China faced danger not just from clients, but the police, with the | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
constant threat of crackdowns, arrests, and public shaming is. | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
There may be more that some hotels could be doing to keep this | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
exploitative trade away from their doors. The company should be | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
negotiating with the landlords, with the owners, from day one that if | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
they are going to run a spa that he can be owned by a third party but | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
initially managed by their employees and they need to be in charge of the | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
hours. They had a ready decided to pull out of the hotel before our | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
investigation. They will cease to manage it from November the 15th, a | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
sign that just one year after it opened something has gone badly | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
wrong. For foreign companies, China offers unlimited opportunity, but | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
the dark underbelly of this economy is ever present. While there is big | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
money to be made here, there are often overlooked big reputation | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
risks as well. The waters around the Italian island | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
of Lampedusa have become a focal point for the plight of migrants | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
fleeing Africa. Hundreds have died in recent weeks time to reach | :08:47. | :08:55. | |
Italian territory. The government of Sicily has a state of emergency as | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
they try to deal with this. Alan Johnston joins a search and rescue | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
team. A dangerous stretch of sea. Hundreds | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
have drowned down there. The pilots watch the horizon for mild boats | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
from Libya `` Libya. Crowded and unseaworthy they are disasters | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
waiting to happen. The raider helps, but which dot in the screen is a | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
fishing trawler and which a boat packed with migrants? What really | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
strikes you up here is just how fast the Mediterranean years. New Fearley | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
`` you fully realise what an expanse it is. You appreciate how hard it is | :09:40. | :09:48. | |
to cross this expanse of water safely. Some of those who risked | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
their lives at sea and won a gamble, migrants from Africa and the Middle | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
East who made it, moving on to mainland Italy, hoping their dream | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
of a new life in Europe is about to come true. As they watch, the | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
helicopter crews live with their memories of the last rescue. I saw | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
many people in the water. They were trying to Save the Children or save | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
themselves. Like their colleagues aboard the | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
helicopters, the crew of this coastguard vessel has been in the | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
thick of many rescues. Here on the bridge, it you get a sense of the | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
sea area that we are talking about. There you have Sicily, at here the | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
coast of Tunisia, and their Libya. And that is tiny Lampedusa island. | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
And this coastguard is looking to intercept in this area boats loaded | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
with migrants coming mostly the States from Libya. In general, when | :11:01. | :11:09. | |
we intercept these ships that are little fishing vessels of Ward or | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
rubber boats, the situation is dangerous. `` wood. We keep the | :11:16. | :11:33. | |
migrants and we take them on board a ship. | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
Reinforcements are coming. Ships like this are already patrolling. | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
More are on the way. More helicopters as well. For the first | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
time, unmanned drone aircraft will scan the sea. But so many people see | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
these waters as the route to better lives, the promised land of Europe. | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
As long as they keep coming in a dangerous boats, no matter how me | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
patrols thereafter, another disaster is always possible at any moment. | :12:08. | :12:18. | |
It is one of the biggest offshore call deposits are found. It is | :12:19. | :12:27. | |
Brazil's made oil producer. Off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, it can be | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
Brazil's output. That is more than Mexico or Venezuela. There are | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
concerns Brazil is not making it easy for developers to join its oil | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
boom. Our correspondent has more. Resort is about to join the big | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
league. Anyone who is a player in the oil business is heading south. | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
Deep beneath these waves is the Bradfield, one of the largest | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
offshore deposits and are found. Brazil is selling them to develop | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
the area. There are some pretty tight strings attached. This is | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
Brazil's new frontier. The opportunities are almost endless. | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
The new field is on stream. There will be an extra 2 million oil | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
barrels for Brazil, earning trillions of dollars for the | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
economy. To the north of Rio de Janeiro, in the Finnish `` fishing | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
village, oil is taken over. The multinationals, contractors and | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
their support vessels are queueing up for their share of the windfall. | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
British companies are also investing heavily in Brazil's oil boom. | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
Neither BP or Bee Gee joined in the heavily regulated bidding process | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
for the Libra field. Smaller specialised contractors like the | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
Schweiger of Sega have to be when the oil is now group `` now. Every | :13:53. | :14:02. | |
day, there is less oil and gas. These companies do not look to | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
Africa or South America as a future. Their business will shrink. Brazil | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
is training hundreds of workers from poorer part of the country to work | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
on the oil platforms. There are concerns it has neither the | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
experience or the infrastructure to double its daily output to 4 million | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
barrels of oil. The Libra field comes online. The head of Brazil's | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
national agency dismisses suggestions that the country's state | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
dominated spectre cannot cope with such a huge challenge. We are | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
working on new platforms, new drilling rigs, new pipelines. We are | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
exporting gas. Everything is happening in Brazil in the correct | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
pace. We are confident that everything will be OK. Oil has | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
always proved to be a blessing and a curse. On this improv ridged | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
fringes, some improvements are finally being made to people 's | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
lives. What brittle does with the windfall from the Libra auction will | :15:12. | :15:20. | |
be watched very closely here. Another Taliban, spot `` sport | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
stadiums in Afghanistan sported more executions that football matches. | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
Times have changed. This week, after Scott a rare sporting treat. The | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
football season `` season kicked off in Kabul. The power of sport can | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
inspire a new national spirit. Our correspondent has more. | :15:41. | :15:51. | |
Days like this are rare, for a generation that has only known war, | :15:52. | :16:00. | |
division and destruction. Sport is now building a new spirit. It is | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
making the people proud to be Afghan. The war has not gone away. A | :16:06. | :16:20. | |
neat helicopter lands at a nearby base. Afghan forces protect these | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
grounds. `` NATO helicopter. Kabul, in yellow, take on the Norton team | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
is brand`new stadium. They are the best of eight clubs that cut across | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
the ethnic lines that still divide this society. Number format, dreams | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
of being a footballer from the first day he set foot in Kabul's old guard | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
stadium. The infamous as the State where the Taliban carried out harsh | :16:51. | :16:51. | |
Islamic punishments. TRANSLATION: . At home with his family, he | :16:52. | :17:04. | |
remembers those years as the worst in his career. TRANSLATION: Before | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
one much, the Taliban in a person and shot him times. Two and others | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
were bought in. There heads were agitated. After that, nobody was | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
interested in seeing football in the stadium. Now the nation is watching. | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
From the President to 12 `year`old Sammy, who said he was to be a | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
footballer just like his brother. Live coverage on TV brings football | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
into Afghan homes, unthinkable years ago. The Premier League was even | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
created through at reality TV show and `` in the popular network. | :17:44. | :17:54. | |
Football is due to the new fame to urge kids to stay off drugs and stay | :17:55. | :18:05. | |
in school. There are many Afghans around the country. If players go | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
back to their districts and provinces, everybody knows them. | :18:08. | :18:17. | |
They can be goodwill ambassadors for many issues. At the same time, they | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
are role models for millions of kids. But they still have to play | :18:23. | :18:32. | |
well and strictly by the rules. In this world, misbehaviour is punished | :18:33. | :18:41. | |
immediately. The Kabul team gets instant justice. | :18:42. | :18:54. | |
In a country still suffering from the chaos and injustice of war, they | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
are celebrating again, where you play by the rules, where the | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
referee's words are final. They hope that some day FairPlay will define | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
Afghanistan as well. Activists usually spend their time worrying | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
about human rights abuses. A day at the boys even breaking `` even | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
brings him a bit of cheer. When he meets a fellow activist with | :19:23. | :19:41. | |
their usual hangout, football is part of the little debate, | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
especially the national side's recent trial `` came over India, | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
making them champions. 11 men brought pride to the people. None of | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
them held a gun. It is a new narrative of what it is to be a | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
hero. I hope it is in this election realise that. They still some space | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
between the dominant political activists and the new state. How | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
that will play out in the elections remain to be seen. We hope to play | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
by the rules. This board is powerful. It can change and more | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
hard and violence political culture. If we play together with a common | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
goal, and if we do not think about the short`term benefits and think | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
about the big ambition, the bigger goal, I think we can repeat the | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
success we had in sport and in the political field as well. In sport, | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
there is only one winner. Kabul team triumphs, 3`1 in extra time. There | :20:44. | :20:52. | |
is another victory. TRANSLATION: My happiness has doubled. I've always | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
dreamt of being this player. We have won the game and I am the man of the | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
match. Well done. That is how it feels when you are a winner in | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
Afghanistan. It is a great day for the Kabul team. The crisis and | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
acting like this today. This is a game that is win`win for a country | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
that has had all too little of this kind of celebration. A feelgood | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
moment is precious. Chitin decades of violence division, much harder. | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
But this rare presence of hope create a powerful sense of what | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
could be possible. `` change in decades. | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
That is all from Reporters for this week. Goodbye for now. | :21:43. | :21:57. | |
More showers out there. It will stay mild on Sunday. Pleasant enough when | :21:58. | :22:11. | |
the sun is out. Showers are not too far away. Lots of them are around, | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
with hail and thunder and gusty winds. The belt of cloud will sit | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
across northern parts of the UK. These shower clouds follow behind. | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
These showers are working its way across | :22:26. | :22:26. |