all about going to where the opportunities are. and with china on the rise, it s more important than ever to understand where she comes from. hi. i can take you back here. i give the best blowjob you ve ever had. do you want to pay with cash or with card? on nearly every corner of america, soliciting sex is considered a crime, and through my work, i ve seen why. this girl looks very, very young. shes, like, 12. i ve witnessed countless women exploited and controlled by prostitution, but i m heading to a place that claims women here are in control. you may have seen it before on an hbo reality show. guys like shiny, big and bright. tonight, we go beyond the reality show veneer to explore the lives of the women who work in legal brothels. hey, bear-bear, what are you doing? i m more of a friend than i am a prostitute. hi, i m zoey. there are a lot of mothers here. did that surprise you? not at all because i know why they re here. hi, i m sarah greenm
there we go. this is zack. he s cute, friendly, athletic, and a member of his high school varsity cheerleading squad. but he s also facing life as a convicted felon for something teenagers across the country are probably doing right now. how much prison or jail time is he facing? up to 40 years in prison and lifetime registry on the sex offender list. it s scary. it s maddening. it s outrageous. they had him wearing shackles when they brought him in. how did it feel to see your son like that? i just could not believe that i was the mother of a registered sex offender. more than half a million people are listed on our nation s sex offender registries. estimates suggest a quarter of them landed there before the age of 18. what some of them were convicted of may surprise you. if i could go back in time, i would stop myself. i know there s other people in school having sex. i m the one that got caught. tonight we explore a question that should be on every parent s m
what is there in the election for young voters? national service, reform, covered in the cost of living crisis? what is in it for you? and rishi sunak says he is incredibly angry about the betting scandal. good evening live from the newsnight studio, where our guests, young, old, well, older and somewhere in between, entertain us with interviews and searing, late night insight. we shouted out for younger voters to get in touch about how they re feeling about the election. 26 year old harrison from bournemouth came straight back. hello, newsnight, definitely feeling ignored during this campaign. six months ago, i had to quit myjob in watford and move back home to live with my parents in bournemouth with the cost of renting being the leading factor in my decision. i simply couldn t afford to live where i worked. i haven t heard anything from any of the political parties during this campaign that i think will materially improve the lives for young people. we ve got a stuffed so
in sport.swansea s premier league future is in their own hands, as they win and the teams around them slip up. and louise has the weather. good morning. it s another quiet day of weather mostly dry and yet again, west is best in terms of the sunshine and the warmth. more details from me later on. good morning. first, our main story. with just over a month to go until the general election, the political parties are making key pledges today. labour says if it wins, it will not raise income tax for those earning less than £80,000 a year. the conservatives are planning to reform mental health services, while the liberal democrats are vowing to protect pensions. 0ur political correspondent ellie price, can tell us more. ellie, the parties are making big promises today? absolutely. labour will be pleased with what they see as their pitch to low and middle income earners, that it s on the front pages today. they ve essentially saying they will not raise the standard rate of vat,
it s a little stressful because i came here for two weeks hoping, you know, that i was going to bank or make enough money to buy christmas presents. do you think you ll come back here? it s a possibility. i have a few appointments in january, so if the appointments are serious and they put a deposit down, then i ll come back. how are you all tonight, good? prostitution it will always be controversial, but nevada s choice to legalize the world s oldest profession has given the women i ve met here a place to set their own prices and make their own rules. ready for a really good adventure? i am. i am. it isn t a perfect system, but as long as people want to buy sex, shouldn t there be an alternative to the hazardous life of street work for those willing to sell it?