01/12/2013 Reporters

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Welcome to Reporters. We send out correspondence to bring you the best

stories from across the globe. In this week's programme ` a report on

the race to get venues ready for the World Cup finals in Rozelle.

TRANSLATION: There won't be enough hotel rooms for the fans. Inside

story. China closes its forced labour cams. We talked away person

about her years of abuse. The guards beat me after it refused to do more

work. They covered my mouth and pulled my hair. They punched me.

Torn between East and West. Steve Rosenberg reports on protests in

Ukraine as Kiev was in EU trade deal on hold. On the hunt for the goose a

call. Tom joins those prepared to risk life and limb for the Spanish

seafood delicacy. These rather ugly looking things fetch a high price at

auction. Drums, dancers, and dunes. Musicians from around the world at

the festival in the desert. Everyone was dancing. It was wonderful music.

It has produced some of the world's greatest footballers but the big

question is, will bristle give us a great World Cup? Seven months to go

until the finals begin. Organises only have a few weeks left to get

all the stadiums ready. The governing body of world football,

FIFA has to want that there will be no compromise over the deadline for

the delivery of World Cup venues by the end of December. There was also

concerned at this week after a train collects the killing two people in

Sao Paulo at the stadium. Two construction sites. They are

struggling to meet deadlines. It is the rainy season and they are up

against the clock trying to finish this arena before FIFA's strict

deadline. The roof still isn't finished. Only half of the seats are

installed. When the skies open, almost everything comes to a

standstill. This is being built with ?200 million of public money. Even

though the local team really attracts more than 3000 fans,

officials say the expense is justified. TRANSLATION: This brings

us motivation to move past the challenges we have had. If they are

confident about making it, more than 1000 miles to the south, this is the

situation which is much more critical. And about seven months,

Stephen could be leading his English team up the steps of on side perhaps

Lionel Messi for Argentina in a vital match. There are doubts

whether this stadium will be ready. A huge building site, another arena

built with public money in a remote part of Brazil. No pitch, no seats,

no roof. This is a gamble to use the World Cup as a beacon for

development and it may have backfired. Local officials are

admitting that they won't make deadline. TRANSLATION: We should be

finished between the 15th and 20th of January. This is a local official

in charge of the stadium. You almost casually adds that there won't be

enough hotel rooms for the fans but the city will manage. Now, there

won't be a World Cup, is the cry from the streets and met increasing

angry at and so much public money being spent on new stadiums. The way

the money is being handled, there is corruption. It is not in our

interests. Tear gas and rubber bullets have been used by police.

Some protesters have resorted to violence. Organises said the

demonstrations will continue throughout the World Cup. Brazilians

love of football and many say the country needs the investment and the

new stadiums. FIFA has some tough decisions to make.

Re`education through labour camps is a clumsy title for a brutal system.

It has allowed Chinese police to send people to prison for up to form

a key is without a trial and with little chance of appeal. People have

and in this way since the 1950s across China. Beijing says it will

abolish the camps. We have spoken to a former inmate who wrote a diary of

her abuse. TRANSLATION: This is a secret diary smuggled out

of a labour camp. It was written by this woman, documenting the horror

of her detention. Snatched off the streets by police following a land

dispute, she was locked up for two years. Forced to make coats for the

military, she still pieces of cloth to write her diary. It is a rollcall

of her abuse. TRANSLATION: The guard started beating me after I refused

to do more work. They covered my mouth, pulled my hair, then they

punched me. They told me, this is what happens of a don't follow

orders. Established over half a century ago, China's network of

re`education camps was initially used to house political opponents.

Some people have been detained up to four years without a trial. This man

says the closure of the camps is good news. TRANSLATION: The reality

is that dissidents will still be dealt with harshly but by different

means. For those like this woman, it is impossible to forget what they

lived through. TRANSLATION: They treated us like animals but we are

human beings. We just want to be citizens and have our rights that

everyone else. By abolishing the camps, the Communist parties as it

is promoting the rule of law but at the same time it, China's leaders

are attracting dissent. Many like that woman believed the party will

still find a way of locking them up. Ukraine is a nation torn between

East and West. It is divided over whether to forge closer links with

Europe or the look eastwards and join Russia's economic bloc. A

decision to put on hold an historic trade deal with the EU last week led

to the biggest anti`government protest since the Orange Revolution

in 2004. Russia has been accused of putting political and economic

pressure on the Ukraine. It is a story of love and bitter rivalry.

Two suitors, want fair Lady. `` won ``one fair lady. The European union

and Russia have been competing for closer ties with Kiev but who will

she embrace? Ukraine has had a big decision to make. On one hand,

should it signed an historic trade agreement with the European Union

that would turn this country very much towards Europe, or should it

look East and join Russia's economic bloc was to mark the pressure on

Ukraine to decide one way or the other has been huge. That includes

economic pressure. Earlier this year, Russia banned imports from

Ukraine's largest confectionery company. The trade restrictions on

other Ukrainian companies were made and it is a strong hint that Kiev

should think twice before distancing itself from Moscow. The whole world

has a clear understanding of this. It is a form of pressure. It is a

pressure on Ukraine. It is necessary to teach... To make a decision about

our future development. That pressure has had an effect. Last

week, Ukraine's government announced it had put on hold the association

agreement with the EU. It would concentrate instead on repairing

economic ties with Moscow. TRANSLATION: Over last year trade

between Russia Ukraine fail by 25%. That is a huge blow. `` fell by. All

we got were declarations that Ukraine would profit in the medium

to long`term. The government 's decision has sparked anger on the

streets. In Kiev, pro` EU protesters have clashed with riot police. They

accuse the authorities are dragging Ukraine back to the Soviet Union.

They have demanded the release from jail the Opposition Leader and

former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. The ruling party are not

willing to embrace European standards and values in order to

play according to the rules of the European Union. These protesters say

they will stay on the streets until Ukraine's government chooses a

different path. One that leads to Europe.

Lebanon with its vibrant nightlife is often seen as one of the more

liberal countries of the Middle East. It has a reputation of a

predominantly conservative region that has relatively tolerant of gay

people. Campaigners say they are increasingly concerned that this is

changing. Human Rights Watch says it has evidence that homosexual men are

subjected to abuse by police. In the Lebanese capital, our correspondent

reports. Beirut comes alive under darkness. It is liberal and modern,

London vars and clubs. We masculinity matches stereotypes. The

city has an underground gay scene that is private yet very much alive.

Lebanon became the first country to declassify homosexuality as a

disease that still has legislation which could be used to criminalise

homosexuals. Beirut is often thought of as a safe haven for gay people

across the Arab world. In countries like Saudi Arabia, being homosexual

can lead to the death penalty. Recently, much has happened here it

has revealed cracks in the city's liberal facade. There have been

claims here that lease have in subject in gay people to intrusive

anal testing. This man who does not want to show the space says he was

arrested for being gay. He claims doctors conducted an intimate

inspection on him to find out if he had had homosexual sex. It was

really demeaning. It made me feel I do not have body rights. I was

depressed for a long time and very resentful. Human Rights Watch says

even though the government has condemned and banned this kind of

testing, it is still going on. We are very concerned about the problem

of abuse against gays and lesbians and transgender people in Lebanon.

The wave which they are treated by wider society and the torture and

ill treatment they are subjected to in police cells and in detention. We

have documented serious patterns of abuse. Some people insist that

homosexuality is wrong. Male and female. This is normal life. Not

male and mail or female and female. These kind of use are in line with

the religious teachings of Islam but there is an argument here that

people should move with the times. A BBC investigation into the online

retailer Amazon has uncovered working conditions that an expert

says could cause mental and physical illness. Amazon says that staff

safety as its number one priority and that official safety inspections

have not raised concerns. Through an agency, the undercover worker got a

job at the Amazon's vast Swansea warehouse. This business millions of

us will shop in their websites, the order comes to a place like this and

our reporter's job is to get what you buy from the shelves. The job is

controlled by this handset. It seems to each item and counts down how

long it thinks he should take. Sometimes, the motion sensor

lighting does not work but the handset keeps counting. Information

from the handset is sent to the reporter's managers, they can see if

he is not going fast enough. We are machines. We are robots. We plugged

the scanner and we hold that, but we may as well be plugging it into

ourselves. We do not inspire souls. The company says productivity

targets are set object of the based on previous performance levels

achieved by the workforce. Ad showed the footage of his work to some

leading experts on stress at work. It gives you the time to get your

next location. The characteristics of this type of job, the evidence

shows, increase risk of mental illness and physical illness. Amazon

says safety of staff as its number one priority. It says an independent

expert appointed by the company advised that the picking job as

summer to jobs and many other industries and is not increase the

risk of mental and physical illness. Adam has resigned but the company

says that in,000 new recruits are joining them over the Christmas

period. `` 15,000. They are cold wet and ugly and slimy but in Spain they

are a seafood delicacy. Boosting barnacles on the rocky coastline of

northern Spain. In the tough economic times today, many Spaniards

are prepared to risk life and limb to collect them. Some even prepared

to break the law to do so. As the waves crash in, they retreat. But

Suzanne and her three says it is always returned to the edge of the

rocks. `` three sisters. There they chip away, and pluck a valuable

prize from the rocks. Gooseneck barnacles, not even on the menu in

much of the world. Here in Spain they are a seafood delicacy. You can

see the force of the water currents are extremely strong. It is because

of the risk, we are in the far north`west tip of Spain, currents

are extremely strong. This is the Atlantic Ocean. Because of the

risk, these idly looking things fetch a high price at auction. In

tough economic times, more people are collecting them without a

licence. Although it is a risky job, it is quick money. So at midnight, a

patrol. This man scales the coastline that night vision

binoculars. By day, they show us what they had seized. 20 kilos with

hundreds of euros of legal catch. But for this man who has been

unemployed for two years, collecting barnacles without a licence as a

last resort. It means he and his daughter have food to eat. So many

people do it, there is no other way for us to learn so we can eat. There

are no FAQ is here, only two of work for tourism during the summer. The

more barnacles people collect, the less the legal catch pictures that

option. And less money for these Spanish sisters who run a risk,

gathering their catch and retreating, to avoid the powerful

force of the sea. Now for an exotic mixture of drums, dancing and jeans.

The fourth ever festival took place in cynical west Africa this week.

Musicians from as far away as Brazil joined local talent from places like

Mali, Guinea and Mauritania for a week and of farm in the sun. Drums,

dancers and jeans. Four of four years, a small annual music event

gathers hundred in the desert. In this festival, local troops like

this one from the late `` a neighbouring village can shear the

applause of international musicians. For this first edition of the

festival, bands from the region and beyond have travelled to perform in

a stage set up in the middle of sand dunes. One of them as a group of

Tuareg musicians whose history is emblematic of the recent trouble in

the region. The music as the cake of rock 'n' roll and then nostalgic

tune of Tuareg blues. `` has the tech. The musicians of this band met

and could dial in the troubled towns in the north of Mali. Growing up,

they witnessed the Tuareg rebellion of the 90s and were influenced as

much by traditional Tuareg music is they were by Western rock stars like

Eric Platt is or Mark Knopfler. It is not only about the Tuareg

situation. I'm sure thousands of people who suffer summer

conditions, indigenous people, all over the world who suffer from

injustice. I sing for all of them. Their themes and brand of music have

clearly gone down well with the fans this weekend. I have come from Saint

Louis. It is extraordinary what we have seen here. I love the singing

and the bands. Everybody is dancing. Wonderful music. It is not only

Kalashnikovs that have their work, it is also guitars, and drums. This

festival will be the place they come to sing for peace while

festival`goers finds new ways of enjoying the beauty of the desert.

That looks like fun. That is all from reporters for this week.

December is here. And winter, three months which for statistical

purposes make up meteorological winter. A quiet start, things will

be different by the end of this week. A quiet start to December and

winter because of high pressure around. Plenty of cloud filtering

south over the United Kingdom. If you enjoyed some sunshine on

Saturday, you will not have it but despite the cloud, it will be mainly

dry. For early risers, some drizzly outbreaks towards western coasts and

hills. A few brighter breaks when the sun is up in eastern Scotland

and north`east