| Précis | World football's latest corruption implosion begs the question: should Russia and Qatar be stripped of their World Cup tournaments? Russia won the 2018 tournament bid. For 2022, Qatar knocked off a field that included Australia - despite inevitable queries about staging a summer sport extravaganza in a scorched desert state with a tiny population. |
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| Reporter Eric Campbell has been in Qatar to witness how this Middle East emirate - the world's richest country per capita - is spending some of the $260 billion it's showering on new stadiums, hotels and infrastructure. |
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| He discovered that the people doing the hard work - migrant labourers mostly from South Asia - endure wretched living and working conditions. |
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| (They) live in squalor... They're owned by another individual, lock, stock and barrel - that's slavery. SHARAN BURROW, head of the International Trade Union Confederation. |
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| Australian Sharan Burrow, former ACTU chief, takes Campbell on a tour of a hostel of Nepalese workers, living 12 to a room, who endure filthy kitchens, washing and toilet facilities and work six days a week for up to 12 hours a day with no paid overtime. |
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| They just bring you back when they decide you've finished. NEPALESE WORKER |
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| Qatar has a system called Kafala which means foreign workers surrender their passports to the employer who decides where they work and even whether they can even leave Qatar. In response to international pressure, including from FIFA, Qatar is promising to reform the Kafala system. |
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| The workers here can be physically and verbally abused, they can lose their visa, which is the livelihood, they can be stuck in detention centres or they can be kicked back home. MUSTAFA QADRI, Amnesty International |
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| Eric Campbell's investigation also took him to France, to hear a bizarre story of former footballer Abdeslam Ouaddou, who was hired to play in Qatari League. At first all went well but then he was ordered to change clubs, his salary was cut and he was denied an exit visa. |
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| How can such a prestigious, popular competition take place in a country that doesn't respect human rights or the law? That was modern slavery. I am shocked. How can Qatar enjoy this conspiracy of silence? ABDESLAM OUADDOU |
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| Campbell on train/Camel racing/Camel |
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| Campbell at camel races | CAMPBELL: Welcome to Qatar – the controversial venue for football’s World Cup. Until now, the national passion here has been camel racing. | 00:23 |
| Camel training | Even on training days, hundreds go through their paces outside the capital, Doha. But this is being overtaken by a sport some say has no place in the desert. Camels don’t mind searing heat. | 00:35 |
| Ouaddou coaching | Footballers do. Just ask French star Abdeslam Ouaddou. | 00:52 |
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| ABDESLAM OUADDOU: “It’s more than 50 degrees. I played there and I can tell you, | 00:59 |
| Ouaddou | it’s impossible. You just can’t play there, it’s impossible”. | 01:05 |
| FIFA TV Blatter with Emir | Music | 01:10 |
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| CAMPBELL: Football’s governing body FIFA didn’t seem to worry about that when it gave Qatar the 2022 tournament. For decades, officials have run the federation as a personal fiefdom. Sepp Blatter’s decision to resign as FIFA president reflects the international heat now on FIFA. | 01:14 |
| Doha GVs | Music | 01:34 |
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| CAMPBELL: Tonight, we go inside its most notorious decision. Was Qatar a bold choice to bring the World Cup to the Middle East, or a sordid deal with a state that treats workers like slaves. | 01:40 |
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| Music | 01:53 |
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| ABDESLAM OUADDOU: “We cannot accept to play | 01:56 |
| Ouaddou | in stadiums where people lost their lives. | 01:59 |
| Construction sites | They built stadiums with blood”. | 02:03 |
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| Doha skyline. GVs | CAMPBELL: If money was all that mattered, Qatar would be a sporting paradise. Since the 1990s, this oil rich state has been developing the world’s biggest gas field. That’s given it the funds to turn Doha into a new Manhattan. | 02:15 |
| Construction sites | Qatar has imported more than a million foreign workers, mainly from South Asia, to build all the stadiums, hotels and transport systems for the World Cup. | 02:34 |
| Campbell at construction site | Going for a walk means dodging bulldozers. This is not a welcoming place for pedestrians. Qatar doesn’t like nosey reporters either. | 02:44 |
| Doha. Night | As night falls, we’re heading to a place we’re not supposed to go with a woman who’s not supposed to be here. | 02:56 |
| Burrow in car with Campbell | SHARAN BURROW: “When we discovered the conditions here when I took over this job in 2010, it was actually modern day slavery”. | 03:05 |
| Car pulls up at workers’ camp | CAMPBELL: Sharan Burrow was once president of Australia’s peak trade union body, the ACTU. | 03:12 |
| Burrow visits workers | Now she risks arrest to visit Doha’s restricted workers’ camps. | 03:20 |
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| SHARAN BURROW: “You can see that on the outside this looks almost human and then you walk in here | 03:27 |
| Burrow and Campbell walk. Burrow greets workers | and you see there are 300 odd men here in about 20 rooms”. CAMPBELL: She heads the International Trade Union Confederation in Brussels, representing workers from 155 countries. | 03:32 |
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| Qatar is per capita the world’s richest country. Its 290,000 citizens enjoy immense wealth, | 03:52 |
| Men wash cooking utensils | but these men from Nepal get just $50 a week. SHARAN BURROW: “They cook and they wash right next to the | 04:01 |
| Toilets | sanitation block, which you’ll see is terribly scungy. I don’t have to tell you what to make of this. | 04:08 |
| Makeshift kitchen | This is dinner time, this is cooking and when you can imagine, you know, 40 or 50 men in here trying to prepare meals | 04:16 |
| Burrow and Campbell | in what is totally unsafe conditions, you’ll see the gas bottles are just sitting outside in the open area and it’s filthy. I mean it’s just filthy”. [to worker] “So you can be | 04:24 |
| Workers | working 10, 11 sometimes…”. WORKER: “Yes”. SHARAN BURROW: “And do they pay you overtime? Do they pay you extra for overtime?” WORKER: “No extra”. SHARAN BURROW: No extra? They just bring you back when they decide you’re going to finish.” WORKER: “Yes”. SHARAN BURROW: “How appalling”. | 04:35 |
| Inside workers’ camp | CAMPBELL: Foreign workers give up even basic rights. There’s little they can do if the boss cuts their wages. They can’t even leave without the bosses’ permission. SHARAN BURROW: [International Trade Union Confederation] “There’s no effective compliance system, no businesses are prosecuted. They live in squalor | 04:51 |
| Burrow. Super: | and when it’s so desperate they just want to go home they find themselves trapped in Qatar. They are owned by another individual lock, stock and barrel – that’s slavery”. | 05:9 |
| Worker slums | CAMPBELL: These worker slums are Qatar’s dirty secret and it’s using secret police to stop anyone exposing it. Recently, television crews from the BBC and Germany were thrown in gaol when they tried to film scenes like this. | 05:20 |
| Qatar World Cup bid video | It’s not the image you get from Qatar’s glossy World Cup videos. Gas and oil money have funded a global feel-good campaign presenting Doha as friendly, modern and open. | 05:42 |
| Al Jazeera newsroom | Qatar even funds al Jazeera, the global television news network with a reputation for fearless reporting. When three of its journalists were gaoled in Egypt, the network campaigned for their release under the slogan “Journalism is not a crime”. | 06:01 |
| Campbell to camera | But here’s the thing. Here in the home of al Jazeera, journalism can be a crime. You see, we spent months applying for permission to come here and when we received our filming permit it pointedly excluded all these industrial estates and workers’ camps. So if police see us here, they will arrest us and stop us filming - which is why we’re moving very quickly with small cameras. This may be the chosen venue for the World Cup, but this is something the Qatari Government doesn’t want the world to see. | 06:20 |
| Qadri talking to workers | Mustafa Qadri has experienced that first hand. He grew up in Sydney but is now based in London for Amnesty International. | 06:50 |
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| MUSTAFA QADRI: “We come in with the permission of the Qatari Government but the reality is that any moment now, the manpower companies, | 07:00 |
| Qadri. Super: | the ones most responsible for abuse could come in and you know, call the police and tell us to be detained... arrested... for talking to their workers without their permission. It actually happened a few days ago where police came and we cooperated with them and we went to the police station. | 07:06 |
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| It took us about six or seven hours to explain things, but they let us go. At the end of the day we can complain, we’re Amnesty International and the Qatari Government does listen to us. We can also leave the country – | 07:23 |
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| but for the workers here, they can be physically and verbally abused, they can lose their visa, which is their livelihood, they can be stuck in detention centres or they can be kicked back home”. | 07:35 |
| Construction site | CAMPBELL: Foreign workers now outnumber Qataris by more than four to one. They’re kept on a tight leash by a system called Kafala. That gives the employer the right to decide where they work and when or even if they can leave. Labourers and domestic servants have to give their passports to the boss. | 07:44 |
| Burrow | SHARAN BURROW: “If you try to leave and your employer decides that they’re not going to issue you either with an exit visa or what they call an NOC, which allows you to transfer your employment to someone else, then that employer has absolute power over you, another human being. So the cries we get every night on the emails – ‘I’m trapped in Qatar’.” | 08:08 |
| Campbell and Nepalese teenagers walk into accommodation | CAMPBELL: And sometimes they’re trapped without money. We came across a group of Nepalese teenagers who’d been brought here by a manpower company in Kathmandu. After paying for flights and the company’s fee, they arrived to find there were no jobs and no wages. But the sponsor was still keeping their passports so they couldn’t complain. | 08:32 |
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| “Fifteen people in one room. Fifteen people! Wow! Do you have the name of the company that you paid the money to? Do you have a card? Yeah what’s it called?” WORKER: “It’s called Honesty Overseas Pty Ltd”. | 08:58 |
| Worker holds business card | CAMPBELL: “It’s called Honesty Overseas”. WORKER: “Yes”. CAMPBELL: “Okay | 09:11 |
| Campbell with workers | so the company you paid the money to, that stole your money and brought you over here is called Honesty?” WORKER: ‘Honesty”. CAMPBELL: “That’s great.” WORKER: “Yeah, Honesty”. When you get back to Nepal, when you go home, if a friend says I would like to go to Qatar, | 09:16 |
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| what will you say?” WORKER: “Don’t like Qatar. I liked Qatar but after company, no like”. CAMPBELL: “Well, good luck guys”. | 09:32 |
| Ouaddou coaching | Even star footballers can be trapped. Abdeslam Ouaddou lives in Nancy in northern France where he was a professional mid-fielder. Four years ago he was lured to play in Qatar for a team owned by the Crown Prince. ABDESLAM OUADDOU: “Since I’m Muslim, I wanted to go there and see what it was like to play for an Islamic country. I wanted to finish my career in an Islamic country”. | 09:45 |
| Ouaddou interview | CAMPBELL: “But it turned out to be the worst mistake of your life”. ABDESLAM OUADDOU: “Exactly. It was the worst career choice in my seventeen years of football”. | 10:22 |
| Ouaddou with football souvenirs | CAMPBELL: At first he was a hero, leading his team to victory. | 10:40 |
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| ABDESLAM OUADDOU: “I had bad moments but I had some good moments as well with the victories when we won the title in Qatar”. CAMPBELL: “But then he was ordered to change clubs from the Lekhwiya team”. | 10:48 |
| Super: | ABDESLAM OUADDOU: “I said why? I signed for Lekhwiya. I came from France, I bring my family because I signed for Lekhwiya. He said no. This words come from the Emir. So all that comes from the Emir is not subject to discussion”. | 11:01 |
| Ouaddou interview | CAMPBELL: When they cut his salary and he complained to FIFA, he was denied an exit visa. | 11:19 |
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| ABDESLAM OUADDOU: “That’s exactly how it was. You agree to the deal, you get your exist visa. If you don’t do what they say you go to prison. You have no choice because under the Kafala system you have no rights”. | 11:24 |
| Ouaddou coaching | CAMPBELL: Unlike poor labourers, he decided to fight. Months of complaints to the players’ union and the French Government succeeded in bringing him home. Still, it took two years in court to get the money he was owed. His football career over, he’s now training to be a coach. ABDESLAM OUADDOU: “I live for football, I wake up for football and definitely | 11:46 |
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| it’s one of the best sports in the world and it makes dreams for a lot of people”. | 12:13 |
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| CAMPBELL: He is incensed that Qatar is hosting the World Cup. ABDESLAM OUADDOU: “How can such a prestigious competition which brings together millions of people, be held in a country that doesn’t respect human rights? | 12:19 |
| Ouaddou interview | A country where slavery still exists.” | 12:36 |
| File footage. FIFA World Cup winner announcement. Super: | SEPP BLATTER: [2 December, 2010] “The winner to organise the 2022 FIFA World Cup is Qatar”. | 12:41 |
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| CAMPBELL: The choice of Qatar over Japan, South Korea, the US and Australia led to immediate suspicion of bribery. FIFA launched an investigation, but then refused to publish the full report. Now, FIFA officials are being charged with bribery, money laundering and racketeering. | 12:51 |
| Fuller interview | JAIME FULLER: “We’re dealing with an organisation that really has a culture of corruption – over generations and you don’t change culture by keeping the same leadership. You have to change the leadership”. | 13:15 |
| Fuller campaign video | [campaign video] “Hi, I’m Jaime Fuller. Chairman of Ultra Performance Sportswear brand, Skins”. | 13:28 |
| Super: Campaign video | CAMPBELL: Swiss-based entrepreneur Jaime Fuller is trying to organise a FIFA boycott. JAIME FULLER: “Skins are proud to announce that as of now we’ve become the first official non-sponsor of FIFA”. | 13:32 |
| Campaign video continues. | CAMPBELL: He combines good publicity for his brand with an ethical stance, even sneaking in to Doha’s workers’ camps to get evidence of ill treatment. JAIME FULLER: “I saw some of the worst instances of appalling bathroom facilities, | 13:43 |
| Fuller interview | sanitary facilities, cooking and eating facilities you could possibly imagine”. | 14:05 |
| Doha GVs | Music | 14:10 |
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| CAMPBELL: But his approach is a rarity in the commercial world. Sponsors like Coca-Cola, Visa and McDonalds have clung to FIFA despite the stench of corruption. Foreign companies have been clamouring for a slice of Qatar’s building boom. | 14:15 |
| Skyline/construction | The government has earmarked a staggering 260 billion dollars for infrastructure. With a population of less than 300,000, that works out to almost a million dollars per person. And they could all fit comfortably in the planned stadiums. | 14:33 |
| Football game | Not that many are likely to bother. | 14:49 |
| Campbell in near empty football stadium to camera | “Now you might think that with all the billions being spent on so many stadiums that Qatar is a football mad nation. Nup”. | 14:56 |
| Football game Yemen vs. Pakistan | This is a typical football crowd in Doha – almost non-existent. Barely 50 Qataris have turned up for an international game even though admission is free. | 15:10 |
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| The only other spectators are some Pakistani construction workers who managed to get here from their distant work camps. And some very excited Yemenis [banging on drums and cheering]. No prizes for guessing who’s winning. | 15:26 |
| Doha skyline. Night | But even if locals don’t follow football, most are glad to be hosting the cup. | 15:46 |
| Khalid. Super: | KHALID ALBAIH: “It’s not only a big deal for Qatar, it’s a big deal for all Arabs and Muslims really, you know? Because this is the first time that we get to show something positive”. | 15:53 |
| Khalid and Campbell looking at cartoons on computer | CAMPBELL: “And this one here, sort of... see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”. Khalid Albaih is no apologist for authoritarian regimes. KHALID ALBAIH: “So this went viral”. | 16:04 |
| CU on cartoons | CAMPBELL: He’s a political cartoonist whose drawings became symbols of the Arab Spring. | 16:15 |
| Khalid and Campbell | “And the message is?” KHALID ALBAIH: “That we’re not on anybody’s side. We’re just Muslims”. CAMPBELL: He believes Western media are painting a false picture of how Qatar treats workers. KHALID ALBAIH: “Of course we care. | 16:21 |
| Khalid interview | Of course our government cares about the labourers and, you know, trying to make things better, | 16:36 |
| Construction workers | but when the population is growing so fast in such little time, a lot of things get out of hand”. | 16:43 |
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| CAMPBELL: Qatar’s construction has happened so fast that even its residents are having trouble keeping up. | 16:51 |
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| Khalid is Sudanese but has lived in Doha since he was a boy. | 16:58 |
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| KHALID ALBAIH: “It’s a totally different city. I mean, you know, before I used to know the places, | 17:04 |
| Construction sites | but now I don’t even know where to take my car. It never stops. There’s projects going and every day there’s new cities are being built. It’s not like they’re building a stadium or two, they’re building cities”. | 17:09 |
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| CAMPBELL: “He believes the government is genuinely trying to improve conditions”. KHALID ALBAIH: “Hopefully if everything goes according to plan, the labour laws are going to change, the Kafala system is going to change, not only because of the labourers but because of people like | 17:21 |
| Khalid interview | myself who have been living here all our lives. So gradually things are going to change because – and that’s the difference with Qatar is that, you know, the leadership is young”. | 17:38 |
| Burrow at workers’ rooms | SHARAN BURROW: “You’ve got two people here, you’ve got two people there, four each in this tiny little apartment”. CAMPBELL: Sharan Burrow is not so sure. SHARAN BURROW: “Every time we’ve gone to them - Amnesty, Human Rights Watch - | 17:49 |
| Burrow interview. Super: | it’s been the same story. ‘We’ll fix it, we’re going to do a review, we’ll change the laws, we’ll build accommodation.’ That’s a joke. It’s a really bad joke. The Kafala system equals slavery”. | 18:04 |
| FIFA Video. Qatari bid | CAMPBELL: There’s one criticism Qatar has managed to deal with – the fact it’s too hot to play football here in summer. FIFA has agreed to move the 2022 World Cup to winter, upsetting the entire European football calendar in the process. Qatar claims every stadium will be fully air conditioned. | 18:18 |
| Workers on construction site | But Qatar will continue to build them in the hottest months when conditions for workers are deadly. Accidents are frequent. We watched as this man almost lost a leg. SHARAN BURROW: “Our estimates are very, very conservative. There’s only two countries | 18:41 |
| Burrow interview | who actually keep accurate records, they’re Nepal and India. More than 200 workers from each of those countries every year die on the job in Qatar. So at that rate, and two out of some 30 countries that have MOUs (Memorandums of Understanding) with Qatar, more than 4,000 workers could die before a ball is kicked in 2022. It doesn’t have to be like that”. | 19:00 |
| Burrow with workers in rooms | CAMPBELL: Sharan Burrow says it’s almost impossible to raise these issues with the government. Outside the ruling Al Thani family, nobody seems to be in charge. SHARAN BURROW: “It’s an incredible country. No one takes responsibility. It’s like a family business. | 19:26 |
| Burrow interview | Every sheikh and their family will run something, but there’s no connected system of government or governance as we would understand in any democratic country”. | 19:46 |
| Modern Doha GVs | Music | 19:57 |
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| CAMPBELL: As modern as it might look, Qatar is a feudal autocracy. | 20:00 |
| Photo of current Emir and father | The supreme leader is the Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who recently took over from his father. | 20:04 |
| Campbell walks in souk | Working out the chain of command beneath him is not easy. Every day we would ring Ministries and government departments. Often, nobody even answered the phone. | 20:12 |
| Campbell with laptop to camera | “Now we’ve been trying to find someone in the government we can talk to about these issues but this is a family run government and the family ain’t talkin’ – or at least not to us. However, the government’s Human Rights Commission has a website that sets out the many reforms it’s undertaken to help workers - all in a slickly produced video”. | 20:22 |
| Human Rights Commission video | It starts with a young Qatari boy passing a foreign worker and deciding to give him a bottle of water. That man is overcome with gratitude. It goes on to show how workers are now paid through bank accounts so they can be sure to get their wages. We were keen to meet these lucky workers – or at least somebody we could ask about them. | 20:45 |
| Sheik entering conference room | After days of rejection, we managed to track down a member of the ruling family. SHEIK SAOUD BIN ABDULRAHMAN AL THANI: [ISF Convention] “There’s nothing more overwhelming than watching young athletes | 21:11 |
| Sheik addresses convention | get their first taste of international competition, a moment that will live with them for the rest of their lives”. | 21:24 |
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| CAMPBELL: Sheik Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who heads Qatar’s Olympic Committee was signing a new agreement with the International School Sport Federation. I was keen to ask him about Qatar’s promise to abolish the Kafala system under which the boss takes the worker’s passport. SHEIK SAOUD BIN ABDULRAHMAN AL THANI: “I think there is a lot of systems that have already been done | 21:37 |
| Sheik. Super: | and there are things that are in the process, and we are sure that things will be done according to the level when you are hosting such a big event”. CAMPBELL: “Do you know when that will happen? Months or years...?” SHEIK SAOUD BIN ABDULRAHMAN AL THANI: “Well I’m not updated to this, but as I’ve said to you, things have already happened and things are already in the process and things will come, also in the future”. | 21:28 |
| Sheik’s entourage departs | CAMPBELL: No other official would talk to us, but just as we were about to leave Qatar, a breakthrough. | 22:17 |
| Travelling to stadium site. View from car in dust storm/Campbell in car to camera | Well, after months of negotiations and days of waiting, we’ve finally been given the go ahead to go and film one of the stadiums for the World Cup. So we’re heading out to the Al Wakrah stadium, if we can find it in this dust storm. | 22:28 |
| Safety briefing at site | Finally we made it to the site. | 22:42 |
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| Before we could go anywhere there was a compulsory safety briefing and compulsory safety gear. Then, unexpectedly, a half hour delay. | 22:51 |
| Policeman on bus | Police boarded the media bus, demanding to know who’d given permission for us to film. Finally we were permitted to see | 23:01 |
| Stadium construction site | the high security earthworks for Al Wakrah. It was no surprise to see every worker clad from tip to toe in safety gear. | 23:13 |
| Animation of completed stadium | Music | 23:21 |
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| CAMPBELL: Al Wakrah will be one of about a dozen showpiece stadiums for the World Cup. Part of Qatar’s winning pitch was that many stadiums would be dismantled once the tournament’s over, and donated to Africa. | 23:25 |
| Construction workers in safety gear | Our tour was organised by the grandly named “Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy of the World Cup”. They believe they have a good story to tell even if they’re strangely shy about telling it. “Now unfortunately nobody working for | 23:38 |
| Campbell at construction site to camera | the Supreme Committee was allowed to come on camera to talk to us. But off camera they reject the allegation that workers are dying to build these stadiums. In fact, they say since work began last year, out of some 3,000 workers there hasn’t been a single fatality and only eight minor injuries, | 23:55 |
| Construction site | the worst being someone off- site who tripped over and broke their ankle which does seem a remarkable safety record”. | 24:11 |
| Model workers’ village | Music | 24:21 |
| Campbell walks by pool | CAMPBELL: We were then taken to a model workers’ village with excellent food, medical care and recreation facilities – | 24:29 |
| Worker watching cricket on computer | even internet to contact their families or just watch cricket. | 24:40 |
| Dining room | Music | 24:44 |
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| CAMPBELL: Conscious of appalling publicity, Qatar really is improving conditions for the full time stadium workers. The problem is they’re just a tiny fraction of the workforce. | 24:49 |
| Doha street | More than a million others live in slums around Doha and they’re getting almost nothing. | 25:01 |
| Campbell walks with Qadri. Super: | MUSTAFA QADRI: “I mean if you compare it to Doha the city, which is this amazing big gleaming city, like a modern city and it feels like you’re in the Third World, not in, you know, one of the richest countries in the world. There’s no proper sewerage system, electricity often there are issues with that, it’s very basic accommodation and what really strikes me is that these are the workers building stadiums, building hospitals that in the years ahead will be the showcase for how developed this country is – yet this is how they’re living”. | 25:10 |
| Workers on street | CAMPBELL: Despite the promise of ending or easing it Kafala, it’s being applied with brutal effect. JAIMIE FULLER: “And we’ve seen only in the last few weeks with the Nepali earthquake, | 25:45 |
| Fuller interview. Super: | they’ve been a huge number of Nepalis have been prevented from returning home for family members’ funerals because the Qatari authorities and their employers have refused to give them permission”. | 25:58 |
| Doha. Night | Music | 26:09 |
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| CAMPBELL: Justice officials on two continents are now investigating how Qatar won the bid. US prosecutors are planning more arrests of FIFA officials. Swiss police are now probing allegations of bribery. | 26:14 |
| Qatar bid video | No matter what’s found, it’s highly unlikely Qatar will lose the cup. Too much money has been spent, too much has already been built for the tournament to be stripped away. And for all the controversy, all the accidents and deaths, some hope the World Cup might still be a force for good. | 26:28 |
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| MUSTAFA QADRI: “Really no one should be praising migrant labour conditions in Qatar, but the World Cup here is an incredible opportunity for Qatar | 26:54 |
| Qadri | to really demonstrate that it is genuinely trying to improve the conditions for labour. | 27:01 |
| Construction activity | If things are urgently not done to change the situation, we are really worried that that World Cup | 27:06 |
| Qadri | will not be remembered for the games but for a World Cup built on the back of, you know migrant labour abuse”. | 27:12 |
| Qatar bid video | Music | 27:18 |
| Credits: | Reporter: Eric Campbell Camera: David Martin Editors: Garth Thomas, Stuart Miller Research: Naima Lynch Producer: Greg Wilesmith Executive producer: Marianne Leitch | 27:29 |
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