:00:00. > :00:00.More on those stories at the top of the hour. Now on BBC News,
:00:00. > :00:25.Reporters. Welcome to Reporters. From here in
:00:26. > :00:28.the world's newsroom, we send correspondents to bring you the best
:00:29. > :00:32.or is from across the globe. This week, separated at birth, we meet
:00:33. > :00:41.the unmarried mothers in Ireland forced to give up their babies to
:00:42. > :00:47.the church. His life was stolen. He was never away from me. We
:00:48. > :00:56.investigate modern`day slavery in India's construction industry.
:00:57. > :01:01.Change for China, we report on the railway revolution. The new
:01:02. > :01:10.generation of bullet trains. 12,000 kilometres of high speed track and
:01:11. > :01:13.double that in a decade. We take a giant step towards space tourism in
:01:14. > :01:21.Wales. And, a hero 's welcome. We join
:01:22. > :01:25.German fans celebrating a united Germany's first World Cup victory.
:01:26. > :01:32.This nation was gripped by football fever. Now, it is gripped by the
:01:33. > :01:36.victory. A story of shocking allegations of
:01:37. > :01:40.decades of appalling cruelty at the heart of Ireland's Catholic Church.
:01:41. > :01:43.The government announces an investigation into the mother and
:01:44. > :01:50.baby homes for unmarried mothers and their children. At least 23,000
:01:51. > :01:55.babies were born at these homes run by nuns in the 1920s`1990s. Death
:01:56. > :02:01.rates were higher, nearly 800 children died at one institution.
:02:02. > :02:06.Nearly 2000 babies were sent abroad for adoption, often against the
:02:07. > :02:11.mother's will. Fergal Keane goes to one of the homes likely to be
:02:12. > :02:19.examined. He will speak with some of the people who live there.
:02:20. > :02:22.Stand above Cork, and you sent a religion that has dominated Irish
:02:23. > :02:28.life from cradle to grave. Education, criminal justice,
:02:29. > :02:31.health, a nation's welfare, subcontracted to the church. Like
:02:32. > :02:34.here at Bessborough House, where nuns of the Sacred Heart Order kept
:02:35. > :02:37.a home for unmarried pregnant women. Terri Harrison came here in 1973,
:02:38. > :02:44.aged 18, one of thousands sent to such homes by their families. You
:02:45. > :02:47.know, the one thing that got to me the most was the times when they'd
:02:48. > :02:49.say to you, "you're here because nobody wants you. You're here
:02:50. > :02:58.because nobody cares about you. You're here because you have
:02:59. > :03:01.sinned." Terri gave birth in another church`run home, and claims her baby
:03:02. > :03:16.was then adopted without her permission. It's like... It's like
:03:17. > :03:19.his life was stolen, and mine. He was never... He was never away from
:03:20. > :03:23.me. His birthday is every October, on the 15th. He was born at 6:30am
:03:24. > :03:35.in the morning. He weighed 6lbs 6oz. He was beautiful. He was beautiful.
:03:36. > :03:38.From the state's beginnings, there was public piety and puritanical
:03:39. > :03:41.morality. Those seen as sexual sinners were cast into moral, and
:03:42. > :03:44.often physical, exile. Thousands of babies were given up for adoption,
:03:45. > :03:47.hundreds sent to America from the church`run homes. Even women who
:03:48. > :03:53.signed legal papers often had little, if any, choice. Helen Murphy
:03:54. > :04:05.grew up in Cork, not knowing her birth mother was walking the city's
:04:06. > :04:09.streets searching for her. There was this yearning in her to find her
:04:10. > :04:12.child. So I suppose she always knew that she wasn't going to find me,
:04:13. > :04:15.somewhere deep inside. She was looking for somebody who looked like
:04:16. > :04:19.the baby that she had given up. I don't know, because I've never been
:04:20. > :04:22.able to ask her ` did you really believe that you'd see me? She died
:04:23. > :04:25.three weeks before... She died three weeks before I found her. Yeah.
:04:26. > :04:28.Campaigners also want the inquiry to examine the use of hundreds of
:04:29. > :04:31.children in drug trials in the homes. Christopher Kerwin, born in
:04:32. > :04:34.Bessborough, believes marks on his body were caused by injections, but
:04:35. > :04:39.he can't find any record of what they were. They have to find out
:04:40. > :04:43.what is going on. I'm very upset, to be honest with you, because I think
:04:44. > :04:46.I'm the same as everybody else. No other person I know has marks like
:04:47. > :04:49.these on their bodies, so why should I be treated any differently? These
:04:50. > :04:53.are stories from a very different Ireland. The inquiry has been
:04:54. > :04:59.promised full co`operation by the nuns, and by GlaxoSmithKline, whose
:05:00. > :05:02.predecessors ran the trials. But one senior figure from Bessborough
:05:03. > :05:08.insists no babies were adopted or vaccinated without the mother's
:05:09. > :05:19.permission. We had good staff. Some of them are still with us. I think
:05:20. > :05:22.it's sad that it has come to this. We gave our lives to looking after
:05:23. > :05:34.the girls, and we're certainly not appreciated for doing it. The
:05:35. > :05:37.inquiry has searching questions for church and state. The high mortality
:05:38. > :05:40.rates in the homes, the location of dead infants' graves, are two of the
:05:41. > :05:45.most poignant questions awaiting explanation. In Bessborough, as in
:05:46. > :05:51.other homes, only a small number of those who died have a marked grave.
:05:52. > :05:54.Both church and state will find themselves in the dock during the
:05:55. > :05:57.commission of inquiry. But for the Irish nation, there are also larger
:05:58. > :06:02.questions ` for those who worked in institutions or in state bodies and
:06:03. > :06:05.didn't speak out. For the Irish media, now so vigorous in its
:06:06. > :06:08.reporting of clerical abuse, but which, for decades, failed to hold
:06:09. > :06:11.power to account. There are questions for all who grew up in
:06:12. > :06:28.that Ireland, about the kind of society we tolerated for so long.
:06:29. > :06:35.India's economy is the 10th largest in the world. Millions of the
:06:36. > :06:39.country's workers are thought to be held in conditions little better
:06:40. > :06:43.than slavery. Men, women and children are made to work against
:06:44. > :06:49.their will every day under what the UN calls bonded labour for little or
:06:50. > :06:53.no pay. Our correspondent goes to India to hear the story of a
:06:54. > :06:57.teenager who tried to escape from his employer but was met with
:06:58. > :07:07.horrific violence. A warning, you might find his report disturbing.
:07:08. > :07:12.Deep in the Indian countryside, these people recently released from
:07:13. > :07:16.slavery, have stories of beatings, rape and murder. They are now safe
:07:17. > :07:25.in charities helping them to recover. One was forced to make a
:07:26. > :07:32.terrible choice. TRANSLATION: They laughed and said, did I want to lose
:07:33. > :07:41.my life, my leg or my hand. I said, my hand. They cut it off with an
:07:42. > :07:47.axe, just like a chicken's head. How did it happen? He tells the other is
:07:48. > :07:51.how he was offered work with upfront payment. Instead, like many, he was
:07:52. > :08:01.paid no money and was trafficked hundreds of miles away to make
:08:02. > :08:08.bricks. This is the type of work he was destined for, where we recently
:08:09. > :08:13.filmed. Trade union activists said India's brick industry relies on an
:08:14. > :08:20.illegal system of bonded labour. They call them blood bricks. On his
:08:21. > :08:27.way there, he tried to escape. As a punishment, he lost his hand. He was
:08:28. > :08:33.recruited directly from his home village. He never went to school and
:08:34. > :08:38.work from early childhood. The family business making rope, so
:08:39. > :08:46.difficult with just one hand now, does not bring in enough. That is
:08:47. > :08:53.why he needed the job. TRANSLATION: If they are jailed for ten years, it
:08:54. > :08:57.isn't enough. They should be hanged. White it turns out that the man who
:08:58. > :09:06.approached him for work comes from a nearby village. `` it turns out. We
:09:07. > :09:10.are going off to find him. The man we are looking for has already been
:09:11. > :09:15.charged, along with others, with human trafficking. He is on bail. He
:09:16. > :09:26.wasn't there when the hand was severed. Then, we find him.
:09:27. > :09:29.TRANSLATION: I want to say sorry, so we can live together as neighbours.
:09:30. > :09:38.The kidnapping, the torture, the beating of people, you were involved
:09:39. > :09:43.in all of that. No, sir, I wasn't involved in the violence. I know
:09:44. > :09:48.nothing about it. Most don't get caught, like those who trafficked
:09:49. > :09:54.these victims. They feel as if they have been bought, sold and traded
:09:55. > :09:55.like property. With an ownership mentality comes all kinds of abuse.
:09:56. > :10:09.If you are big you own someone, we see rape,
:10:10. > :10:16.torture, all kinds of sexual violence, even murder. The recovery
:10:17. > :10:22.programme, rescued brick workers carry official certificates. This
:10:23. > :10:26.boy is only seven. He watches as the children show the work they were
:10:27. > :10:32.once forced to do. They have been free for just a few weeks. Millions
:10:33. > :10:43.remain trapped in this life. It cast a dark shadow over modern India.
:10:44. > :10:48.Three months ago, hearts and minds across the world were captivated by
:10:49. > :10:53.the plight of more than 200 schoolgirls, abducted by Islamist
:10:54. > :10:57.militants in Nigeria. Today they are out of the headlines but most of the
:10:58. > :11:02.girls are still missing. One person who probably understand their plight
:11:03. > :11:04.more than most is Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl and
:11:05. > :11:09.campaigner who survived being shot by the Taliban two years ago. She
:11:10. > :11:15.has been to Nigeria to meet the president, to press authorities to
:11:16. > :11:19.do more to free the girls. John Simpson has been to talk to her.
:11:20. > :11:23.They were an unlikely match ` she a third of his age, and physically
:11:24. > :11:25.tiny, here in the hat which is his political trademark. President
:11:26. > :11:31.Jonathan clearly had not expected that she would be so tough and
:11:32. > :11:34.focused. He promised to do his best to get the missing girls back, and
:11:35. > :11:39.to meet their parents, something he has not yet done. This whole
:11:40. > :11:41.business has been a profound embarrassment for President
:11:42. > :11:44.Jonathan, which is why journalists like me were not allowed into the
:11:45. > :11:48.meeting, in case we might have called up questions to him about why
:11:49. > :11:51.there does not seem to have been any progress on getting the girls freed.
:11:52. > :11:54.Afterwards, I pointed out to Malala that the President had promised to
:11:55. > :12:07.meet the parents and free the girls before. Do you think this is going
:12:08. > :12:11.to be different now? He said that the promise I make is to make sure
:12:12. > :12:21.these girls are released as soon as possible. Before this, she met
:12:22. > :12:25.several of the parent herself. Her own suffering is a powerful link
:12:26. > :12:37.between them, as her father found when he spoke. She was attacked.
:12:38. > :12:45.His emotion ought to mind their own experiences. `` brought to mind. The
:12:46. > :12:51.parents believe the government simply doesn't care about them.
:12:52. > :12:56.TRANSLATION: Suppose our daughters were the children of someone
:12:57. > :12:59.important, this man asks. Would they still be prisoners in the forest
:13:00. > :13:03.after 90 days? The authorities insist they are working hard to free
:13:04. > :13:06.the girls. The fact is that with the level of deployment we are putting
:13:07. > :13:09.into this search, with the manpower, the level of patrol and surveillance
:13:10. > :13:12.we have been putting into it, and the level of collaboration we are
:13:13. > :13:15.enjoying with our partners worldwide, we believe we are doing
:13:16. > :13:22.the best we can in the circumstances. But Malala told me
:13:23. > :13:27.that a great deal more needed to be done. The President should take it
:13:28. > :13:36.serious, he should think about his own daughters. And this country has
:13:37. > :13:39.called the President their father, and a father has a responsibility to
:13:40. > :13:42.take care of his children. And these girls are the future generation.
:13:43. > :13:46.When you ignore these girls, you are not thinking about the future of the
:13:47. > :13:49.country. Malala met a small group of girls that had been kidnapped with
:13:50. > :13:52.the others, but had succeeded in escaping. The depressing fact is
:13:53. > :13:55.that after three long months, the only kidnapped girls who are free
:13:56. > :14:07.now are the ones that managed to get away themselves.
:14:08. > :14:12.China is in the middle of a railway revolution. It now has a larger
:14:13. > :14:17.railway network than the entire European Union or the United States
:14:18. > :14:23.and it is still growing fast, on track to double in size by 2020. The
:14:24. > :14:26.expansion is part of China's economic strategy to build direct
:14:27. > :14:35.trade links with central Asia and Europe. Our reporter travelled to
:14:36. > :14:40.investigate China's railway dream. Asia's biggest rail cargo base, in
:14:41. > :14:44.Chengdu, south`west China. Each of these containers is filled with
:14:45. > :14:46.computers, clothes and even cars. Until recently, everything went east
:14:47. > :14:52.to Shanghai, and then to Europe by sea. But now, this train heads west
:14:53. > :14:58.to Poland, cutting the journey time from six weeks down to two weeks.
:14:59. > :15:01.Chengdu's logistics boss tells me that west China has always suffered
:15:02. > :15:08.economically from having terrible transport links with the world.
:15:09. > :15:11.TRANSLATION: Strengthening the connection to Europe will speed up
:15:12. > :15:25.our industrial transformation, raise investment, and boost our global
:15:26. > :15:29.competitiveness. Until recently, China has always relied on
:15:30. > :15:33.foreigners for railway engineering. Even a decade ago it was European
:15:34. > :15:38.know`how which started the move into high speed rail. But now, China
:15:39. > :15:43.builds its own, and denies the technology is stolen from others.
:15:44. > :15:45.One of China's new generation of bullet trains, China has built
:15:46. > :15:50.12,000 kilometres of high`speed track, and wants to double it by the
:15:51. > :15:55.end of the decade. Critics are worried about corruption, safety and
:15:56. > :16:01.the pricetag. This has already cost $500 billion. But the government is
:16:02. > :16:04.not listening, and carrying on building at home, and now they want
:16:05. > :16:10.to exploit the technology abroad for foreign markets. Chinese media call
:16:11. > :16:18.him The Railway Salesman ` the Prime Minister pushing for contracts
:16:19. > :16:21.whenever he goes abroad. Here in the UK last month, but China has already
:16:22. > :16:26.won high`speed business elsewhere in Europe. Ambition does not stop
:16:27. > :16:29.there. West across China, through Central Asia, a bullet train
:16:30. > :16:37.straight to Europe ` the ultimate goal for Chinese railway builders.
:16:38. > :16:41.At home, the bullet trains are averaging 300 kilometres an hour,
:16:42. > :16:49.and if they match that on the road to Europe, London or Paris could
:16:50. > :16:53.only be two days away. In a decade, this railway newcomer has been
:16:54. > :16:59.raised from the back of the pack to undercutting the market leaders on
:17:00. > :17:07.their own doorsteps. Carrie Gracie, BBC News.
:17:08. > :17:10.Fancy a holiday with a difference? If you are looking for a destination
:17:11. > :17:14.that is out of this world, which could be your launchpad in the not
:17:15. > :17:18.too distant future. Eight places in the UK have been shortlisted as
:17:19. > :17:23.bases for the first space plane flights. They could be used by
:17:24. > :17:30.companies taking tourists into space as well is to launch satellites. Our
:17:31. > :17:35.correspondent visit `` visited one of the site in north Wales. The
:17:36. > :17:50.tranquil north Wales coastline. In a few years, tourists could flocking
:17:51. > :17:58.here to go into space. By 2018, this airfield could be the place people
:17:59. > :18:01.come to go into orbit it seems like the stuff of science fiction but the
:18:02. > :18:09.government really does want to have a launch site. Spain is somewhere in
:18:10. > :18:13.the UK. In a few years lots of people could turn up to airports
:18:14. > :18:18.wearing astronaut suits and being sent into orbit. The plan is to
:18:19. > :18:25.convert an existing airfield, like this one in north Wales. Spaceplane
:18:26. > :18:33.is could be taking off from this very runway, carrying people and the
:18:34. > :18:38.dish made satellites. Isn't working spaceplane yet. `` British made. But
:18:39. > :18:42.companies are designing them. This one takes of adviser spacecraft with
:18:43. > :18:49.tourists into space. Here is another idea. A2 seater for a joy ride. And
:18:50. > :18:54.the spaceplane can take satellite into orbit and then come back to
:18:55. > :18:59.earth. `` a two seater. The UK has played a major role in space, every
:19:00. > :19:03.`` ever since we first went to space 50 years ago. We built spacecraft
:19:04. > :19:07.and satellite that go onboard. But it's probably a bit hard for people
:19:08. > :19:13.to engage directly with it, so having a spaceport in the UK, where
:19:14. > :19:17.stuff is launched directly into space from here, will make it much
:19:18. > :19:24.more real for people. Some believe space tourism is probably a step too
:19:25. > :19:29.far. The launch site will be chosen next year, after which the UK will
:19:30. > :19:35.begin the long haul journey into space.
:19:36. > :19:43.They came, they saw and conquered. Journeys `` Germany celebrated their
:19:44. > :19:50.first ever World Cup jury this week. The team received their welcome on
:19:51. > :19:53.the return from Brazil to Berlin. Germany's first World Cup victory
:19:54. > :20:00.since the unification in 1990 has sparked nationwide euphoria. Stephen
:20:01. > :20:09.Evans joined fans at Brandenburg Gate as they raised the trophy.
:20:10. > :20:13.Anticipation was skyhigh. The plane carrying the side that won the World
:20:14. > :20:26.Cup to pass over Berlin and said the fans into orbit. Then, finally back
:20:27. > :20:32.on home soil, they got a tumultuous welcome as their cavalcade drove
:20:33. > :20:39.slowly through the city. This team gave Germany its fourth World Cup
:20:40. > :20:45.and the first for a united Germany. Jubilation across the country, but
:20:46. > :20:55.concentrated at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The site was presented to
:20:56. > :21:00.hundreds of thousands of fans at the same place where they watched the
:21:01. > :21:05.victory on Sunday. `` the side. Then, the atmosphere was tense but
:21:06. > :21:09.today it was dubious. The atmosphere, they are going crazy!
:21:10. > :21:16.They are happy! It's a party! A celebration! It seems like the whole
:21:17. > :21:20.of Berlin has come out to welcome this site. Sometimes like the whole
:21:21. > :21:29.of Germany. This nation was gripped by foot or fever, now it's gripped
:21:30. > :21:32.by the victory. `` football fever. Angela Merkel already celebrated in
:21:33. > :21:36.the changing room with the team, straight after the final Peter Reid.
:21:37. > :21:42.And up in the atmosphere, the German at the `` astronaut did his own
:21:43. > :21:45.celebrating. On planet Earth, in Germany, there has been loud
:21:46. > :21:55.jubilation among the people. That's all from Reporters this week.
:21:56. > :22:09.From me and the team, goodbye for now.
:22:10. > :22:13.A very lively start to the weekend. Pretty hot and humid. Some thundery
:22:14. > :22:15.downpours