:00:00. > :00:29.Welcome to Reporters. We send out correspondence to bring you the best
:00:30. > :00:35.stories from across the globe. In this week's programme: an epidemic
:00:36. > :00:38.of child abuse, online and to order. We uncover an international
:00:39. > :00:45.cyber sex network in the Philippines. One recent survey
:00:46. > :00:51.showed that 80 houses were involved here in the family selling their
:00:52. > :00:55.children for sex online. Syria's on her voices. We talk to the pianist
:00:56. > :01:00.at the Damascus Opera House about what it is like to live in the midst
:01:01. > :01:08.of civil war. People say this is not the time for concerts. My opinion is
:01:09. > :01:12.that the concerts matter. A new scientific superpower - a report on
:01:13. > :01:19.China's efforts to become the world leader in technology. We can make it
:01:20. > :01:28.like a clothing factory here. That cloning. We test out the ultimate
:01:29. > :01:37.hands-free experience, the driverless car.
:01:38. > :01:44.And the fast and freezing. A formal vice key gaining new fans in Africa.
:01:45. > :01:53.It is hard to imagine that just a few months ago, they were as YouTube
:01:54. > :01:58.is I am. Another shocking story, this time of the sexual abuse of
:01:59. > :02:01.children. It is carried out by British men on vulnerable young
:02:02. > :02:06.children, thousands of kilometres away in the Philippines. Tens of
:02:07. > :02:11.thousands of boys and girls are forced into the sex trade. Our
:02:12. > :02:17.investigation shows the story of one Briton who pay their family to abuse
:02:18. > :02:28.at five of their children. Our correspondent has more. This street
:02:29. > :02:34.holds a secret. A house where children are sexually abused and
:02:35. > :02:39.raped by their own family. The room where police say the abuse was
:02:40. > :02:47.broadcast by WebCam to foreign paedophiles. This man director that
:02:48. > :02:50.abuse from his home in the UK. A police raid in the Philippines last
:02:51. > :02:57.year sparked by what was found on his computer. He was sent to prison
:02:58. > :03:03.for 8.5 years, 12 children, the youngest just five, were taken into
:03:04. > :03:10.care. Some of the children are now back in the community. Her parents
:03:11. > :03:15.are still in jail. He is a British man who was sent to prison...
:03:16. > :03:24.He plans to buy a house and open Internet cafe here. We have
:03:25. > :03:33.discovered that he is just one of thousands. They call it cybersex. We
:03:34. > :03:38.travelled across the Philippines and found some neighbourhoods have been
:03:39. > :03:46.virtually taken over by it. The abuse of children online has become
:03:47. > :03:51.an industry driven by poverty. The families are engaged in cyber sex
:03:52. > :03:56.business. Some fathers and mothers bring their children here to show
:03:57. > :04:02.and get paid from the owner of the South. This is the south of the
:04:03. > :04:07.country, it has become notorious for this kind of crime. This is in
:04:08. > :04:14.effect, the epicentre of the cybersex industry. It takes place in
:04:15. > :04:21.rooms and houses under cover. No one talks about it. All they need is a
:04:22. > :04:27.laptop and a USP. 80 houses were involved here in the family selling
:04:28. > :04:31.their children for sex online. This kind of abuse has become rooted in
:04:32. > :04:38.the culture here. Local charities find it difficult to convince
:04:39. > :04:43.families of the harm it causes. The client from the other part of the
:04:44. > :04:49.globe gives the instruction to touch this and touch that, kiss this, kiss
:04:50. > :04:54.that. They even send sex toys to the children so that they can use them.
:04:55. > :05:01.It is a myth that there is no contact. Some of the parents and
:05:02. > :05:06.relatives are the ones touching their children. A couple of streets
:05:07. > :05:12.away, another home raided. A two-year-old was rescued here. It is
:05:13. > :05:16.something no one wants a kookaburra. How can I know when they houses
:05:17. > :05:26.close. I do not go inside their houses and see what they are doing.
:05:27. > :05:30.Some children to escape the abuse. Here at a shelter where they can
:05:31. > :05:36.start to recover. They feel small, they feel dirty about themselves.
:05:37. > :05:43.Many are deeply traumatised. Some talk of seeing the foreigner who
:05:44. > :05:47.paid to watch. This is a new crime fuelled by rising demand in the
:05:48. > :05:52.West. It is a growing problem in the Philippines. In some of the poorest
:05:53. > :05:58.areas, whole communities have been taken over by the trade. Families
:05:59. > :06:03.forced children to perform sex acts in front of web cams for foreigners
:06:04. > :06:08.who are prepared to pay. One recent case involved a three-month-old
:06:09. > :06:16.baby. This trade is driven by poverty. This girl was 15 when she
:06:17. > :06:32.was forced by her aunt to work in what she called a cybersex down.
:06:33. > :06:38.The authorities are starting to crack down the straight. Charities
:06:39. > :06:47.say police need to do even more to protect the tens of thousands of
:06:48. > :06:51.children who remain at risk. Nearly three years into the conflict
:06:52. > :06:58.in Syria, aid officials are calling it one of the worst humanitarian
:06:59. > :07:02.crises ever seen. The situation is so intense that the UN is launching
:07:03. > :07:07.its biggest ever appeal. Even in the capital of Damascus, there is barely
:07:08. > :07:12.a single family that has not been affected by the conflict. We have
:07:13. > :07:27.been hearing from different voices in Damascus on what it is like to
:07:28. > :07:36.live in a war zone. A sonata. Played by Syria's most renowned pianist. In
:07:37. > :07:52.the Damascus Opera House, it is an elegy for another time. TRANSLATION:
:07:53. > :07:58.Day after day, the situation is worse. We have more casualties, we
:07:59. > :08:06.are more stressed. You cannot imagine how hard I have to work to
:08:07. > :08:10.focus on art and this atmosphere. Some people do not come to the upper
:08:11. > :08:15.house because of explosions, mortars. The timing of the concerts
:08:16. > :08:19.has changed from the evening to the afternoon. Some people are saying
:08:20. > :08:27.that this is not the time for concerts. My opinion is that the
:08:28. > :08:42.concerts matter. The role of art is to help citizens. When the uprising
:08:43. > :08:47.began nearly three years ago, some Syrians felt they could change a lot
:08:48. > :08:52.by peaceful protest, including this woman. They call her the woman in
:08:53. > :08:59.the red dress. When we interviewed her then, she still had hoped the
:09:00. > :09:06.killing would stop. Now she is no longer taking to the streets. This
:09:07. > :09:14.was the one that became famous. Yes. They stood on the Parliament in
:09:15. > :09:21.Damascus. I carried a banner that said to stop the killing. That was
:09:22. > :09:31.more than one year ago. Yes, around 1.5 years. That was when there were
:09:32. > :09:42.10,000 dead, sadly, now it is 120,000. TRANSLATION: Our first
:09:43. > :09:50.mistake was that we thought it was going to be fast, a quick change. We
:09:51. > :09:55.are paying for this mistake now. To make a change, you need to be
:09:56. > :09:59.patient, you need to look deeply, take a long breath, and start
:10:00. > :10:02.working. There are no quick changes here. I do not think we will see any
:10:03. > :10:17.change before five years. No one expected Syria's conflict
:10:18. > :10:21.would last so long, cost so much, these are brutal. Few expected
:10:22. > :10:28.President Assad would still be in power, except, perhaps, those who
:10:29. > :10:32.support him. This man is a wealthy industrialist with ties to the
:10:33. > :10:36.President. He suggested we meet in the Shakespeare cafe. You are put in
:10:37. > :10:44.the Western sanctions list. What you say to those countries now?
:10:45. > :10:49.Personal, a tall as countries that I am not urging them to lift me from a
:10:50. > :10:52.sentient list, but I tell them, in order for their politicians to
:10:53. > :10:58.protect the interests of there own people, the Western people, really,
:10:59. > :11:02.you have to side with the Syrian government in fighting terrorism.
:11:03. > :11:12.This is the biggest fight against terrorism in history since Archaean
:11:13. > :11:19.was initiated and born 30 years ago. -- since Al-Qaeda. President Assad
:11:20. > :11:28.talked about terrorism before there was terrorism. From day one they use
:11:29. > :11:32.arms. There were peaceful protests. From day one, they use arms, they
:11:33. > :11:39.try to create chaos. We made some mistakes in dealing with this. Life
:11:40. > :11:48.does go on, but Syria has been drawn into the abyss. With every day that
:11:49. > :11:55.passes, it gets worse. After so much suffering and sacrifice, emotions
:11:56. > :12:03.are raw. Still too raw for reconciliation or resolution.
:12:04. > :12:07.It has put a robotic rover on the moon and built the world's fastest
:12:08. > :12:15.supercomputer. China is emerging as a new scientific superpower. It is
:12:16. > :12:21.spending a lot of money on research. It is on course to overtake America
:12:22. > :12:24.to become the global leader in science 30-40 years time. One area
:12:25. > :12:29.where China is leading the field is genetics. We were given rare access
:12:30. > :12:34.to the world's largest centre for the cloning of pigs in southern
:12:35. > :12:41.China. Feeding time in southern China. This
:12:42. > :12:46.is no ordinary farm. It is at the cutting edge of science. Tucked away
:12:47. > :12:54.in the hills, this is the largest centre anywhere in the world for the
:12:55. > :13:00.cloning of pigs. This is one shared holds 90 animals and they are all
:13:01. > :13:03.pregnant with cloned embryos. Some of them are genetically modified.
:13:04. > :13:11.The aim is to test new medicines. This company produces an astonishing
:13:12. > :13:17.500 homes per year. A sour lies under anaesthetic. We are shown how
:13:18. > :13:21.the work is done. A batch of cloned embryos is about to be implanted. A
:13:22. > :13:26.delicate process turned into mass production. The technology of
:13:27. > :13:30.cloning has been around for years and has been used on all kinds of
:13:31. > :13:35.different animals. What is new in China is that it is being deployed
:13:36. > :13:38.on an almost industrial scale. In the West, cloning remains
:13:39. > :13:45.controversial, here it is becoming almost normal. The lab where cloned
:13:46. > :13:49.embryos are prepared for implantation. There is no new
:13:50. > :13:54.science about this procedure. They have led the way in speeding it up.
:13:55. > :14:00.Deploying large teams of young technicians to keep repeating the
:14:01. > :14:05.same intricate tasks. We are doing cloning in very large scale. 50
:14:06. > :14:12.people working together so that we can make a cloning factory. Like a
:14:13. > :14:20.factoring? Exactly. That is an extraordinary idea. The simple thing
:14:21. > :14:24.is the most powerful thing. This company is not only a global leader
:14:25. > :14:31.in cloning. Eager young researchers crowd around a machine that
:14:32. > :14:37.sequences DNA. This place has the world's largest number of these. It
:14:38. > :14:41.even purchased an American company that makes them. It has global
:14:42. > :14:47.ambitions to use genetic science to improve everything from healthcare
:14:48. > :14:52.to food. Forget about all the scientific reasons. To have a direct
:14:53. > :15:01.reason that can impact people's lives. Teaching people what is in
:15:02. > :15:08.the genes. A promotional video markets in the company as a global
:15:09. > :15:13.brand. It is one staggering example of the rise of science in China.
:15:14. > :15:23.China may eventually overtake America as a scientific power. It is
:15:24. > :15:27.likely if this continues and if the Chinese can improve their science,
:15:28. > :15:34.because it is not universally great, I would see China as the
:15:35. > :15:41.leading country for science in the world three or four decades. A new
:15:42. > :15:51.generation of clones. DNA modified to help you. Trial new drugs. As
:15:52. > :15:59.this country emerges as a giant of science, there will be questions
:16:00. > :16:03.about where the research will lead. Now to technology, which could
:16:04. > :16:06.forever change the way we act behind the wheel. For most of us, driving
:16:07. > :16:12.involves turning the key and navigating our way to a destination.
:16:13. > :16:15.But soon the act of making those tones of parking in a tight spot may
:16:16. > :16:24.be the work of a car computer system. We have been to try out the
:16:25. > :16:27.driverless car. Driving across the Golden gate
:16:28. > :16:34.bridge is a pretty special experience, but most of the time it
:16:35. > :16:40.looks nothing like an advertisement. Being behind the wheel is often just
:16:41. > :16:52.a boring and frustration. There has to be a better way. Of course, a
:16:53. > :16:57.truly autonomous car will not be just one technology. It is a whole
:16:58. > :17:01.range of different jobs that the car is going to have to take over from
:17:02. > :17:06.the driver before we can leave them to run for themselves. This is one
:17:07. > :17:11.of the number of manufacturers that are trying to get cars to park
:17:12. > :17:22.themselves. I take out my smartphone and the car should start parking
:17:23. > :17:30.itself. There we go. The car is parked and everybody's paintwork is
:17:31. > :17:38.intact. All of the big manufacturers are in this race. The prize is
:17:39. > :17:42.potentially huge. Polling suggests drivers want the technology as well.
:17:43. > :17:52.It is going to be a lot safer. Computers do not doze off or lose
:17:53. > :17:59.concentration. We cannot accept that the equivalent of an aeroplane is
:18:00. > :18:07.crashing down and people are dying in traffic fatalities. Ford is
:18:08. > :18:12.developing a system where cars can communicate with each other using
:18:13. > :18:19.Wi-Fi to prevent collision. The ranges up to 250 metres. I could do
:18:20. > :18:28.Angela Merkel and just do this. That is what she always does. Look at
:18:29. > :18:36.this. But this is still always way off. This is a piloted trading
:18:37. > :18:43.system. In slow-moving traffic, the car will take control. But the
:18:44. > :18:48.driver still has to be ready. This man is the project leader. He says
:18:49. > :18:54.we need to be realistic about how safe the technologies can make
:18:55. > :18:59.driving. We have to ask ourselves, we OK with a piece of technology
:19:00. > :19:08.that is safer than the current status quo? That it is not 100%
:19:09. > :19:17.safe. How long until everybody can do this, five, ten, 20 years? For
:19:18. > :19:23.me, it cannot come soon enough. You would not think I spoke it was a
:19:24. > :19:29.popular sport among Africans. -- ice hockey. It is normally played in
:19:30. > :19:35.Sweden, Finland and Russia. But there is a new contender in the
:19:36. > :19:41.World Championships. We have been to Sweden to meet the national team of
:19:42. > :19:49.Somalia. This is like ice hockey, but it is
:19:50. > :19:54.played with the ball on a sheet of ice the size of a football pitch.
:19:55. > :20:04.And this is the Somali National team. Yes, they are from Somalia.
:20:05. > :20:10.They grew up in the 40 degrees heat of Mogadishu on violence and
:20:11. > :20:16.bullets. Ice was just something to call your drink. But now the
:20:17. > :20:25.temperature is less than zero. And ice is everywhere. They have
:20:26. > :20:30.courage. There have been a part of things that we do not want to dream
:20:31. > :20:43.about. Going on the ice was nothing for them. A few months ago, none of
:20:44. > :20:46.these men couldst -- could skate. Everybody here is a volunteer,
:20:47. > :20:52.including the figure skater who taught them. But there is still a
:20:53. > :20:56.lot of work to be done. In a few weeks are going to Siberia to
:20:57. > :21:03.represent Somalia in the World Championship. Temperatures can
:21:04. > :21:06.plummet to almost -50. And to prepare themselves for this, the
:21:07. > :21:18.players have even spent time in a giant freezer. I am representing my
:21:19. > :21:23.country in Siberia. It is crazy. It all started off as a way of trying
:21:24. > :21:28.to improve relations between Sweden and Somalia. It is hard to imagine
:21:29. > :21:35.that just a few months ago they were as new to the sport as I am. In a
:21:36. > :21:39.few weeks time they are going to Siberia to represent Somalia in the
:21:40. > :21:43.World Championship. They are not going to win, there might not even
:21:44. > :21:51.score a single goal, but just by being there victory will be those.
:21:52. > :21:56.-- theirs. That is all from reporters. But by
:21:57. > :22:12.-- goodbye. It is turning into a rather mixed
:22:13. > :22:17.weekend. Some rain around on Saturday. But for most of us, Sunday
:22:18. > :22:22.will be the dry one. Some sunny spells across the UK. There will be
:22:23. > :22:31.some exceptions. Actually start to the day. Close to freezing in the
:22:32. > :22:32.towns and cities. We have still got the remnants of the rain