:00:00. > :00:14.Hi, I am Ayshah. Coming up: The prickly pets which are all the rage
:00:15. > :00:15.in America. On your marks, get set, toe, we check out this unusual
:00:16. > :00:21.sporting event. You might think the issue
:00:22. > :00:25.of slavery was tackled a long time ago but in fact it's a crime that's
:00:26. > :00:28.growing throughout the world. In the UK alone there are estimated
:00:29. > :00:32.to be more than 4,000 people being forced to work against their will
:00:33. > :00:34.as modern slaves. Tomorrow the Queen will announce
:00:35. > :00:37.plans to introduce an anti-slavery The BBC spoke to one girl who came
:00:38. > :00:42.to England when she was 15 and was She's now safe
:00:43. > :00:57.but wants to remain anonymous. I was cleaning and a glass broke, I
:00:58. > :01:00.was wearing pyjamas and it was snowing outside. She pushed me
:01:01. > :01:04.outside while it was snowing and I wasn't wearing any shoes from 9.00
:01:05. > :01:09.am to the next day, I couldn't come inside the house. I wanted to run
:01:10. > :01:15.but I didn't know where to go. My English wasn't good.
:01:16. > :01:18.Joining me now is Ben Cooley from the anti-slavery charity Hope for
:01:19. > :01:23.Justice. How big a problem is this the UK? There's thousands of victims
:01:24. > :01:27.of human trafficking and slavery. Women, children, men, families have
:01:28. > :01:35.been brought in and exploited in our country. Why is this happening, why
:01:36. > :01:39.can't victims just leave? Why keep people - they're fed with fear so
:01:40. > :01:42.much, they're scared of leaving. These are victims, that's why
:01:43. > :01:49.organisations like ours and the police are trying to reach out to
:01:50. > :01:52.these people to help them out. Why what is being done? Os like the
:01:53. > :01:56.police and non-Government organisations are trying to find
:01:57. > :02:00.victims and help them and help them into a safe place. Once they get to
:02:01. > :02:05.a safe place what treatment and what sort of facilities are there for
:02:06. > :02:10.people? There's great aftercare facilities in our country that help
:02:11. > :02:13.them to give them counselling, to make sure that what they've gone
:02:14. > :02:18.through is over. Finally, how is this new bill going to help? Well,
:02:19. > :02:21.one of the most important things is life imprisonment for people who are
:02:22. > :02:24.doing this, the slave owners. That will be a great deterrent to
:02:25. > :02:31.traffickers in our country that this crime is wrong. Thank you very much.
:02:32. > :02:34.In the last hour, voting in the presidential elections
:02:35. > :02:38.The country is locked in a civil war, which has been going
:02:39. > :02:42.President Assad's forces are fighting opposition groups who don't
:02:43. > :02:45.want him in power anymore, but he is widely expected to be
:02:46. > :02:50.The BBC's Jeremy Bowen has been to the Syrian capital of Damascus and
:02:51. > :03:04.There is the view you get from the opposition, and from western
:03:05. > :03:10.countries and from critics of what the regime here does. That is that
:03:11. > :03:14.it's a sham, that it's a bad joke. The question asked is how can you
:03:15. > :03:19.hope to have a fair election in a country that's having a civil war?
:03:20. > :03:25.There is a defence against all those arguments which you hear in
:03:26. > :03:29.Damascus. It is that this election is a beginning, the first time since
:03:30. > :03:34.the 50s, there are three faces on the ballot paper and not just one.
:03:35. > :03:37.Winnie the Pooh has been named as the favourite children's book
:03:38. > :03:41.of the past 150 years, in a poll of more than 2,000 adults.
:03:42. > :03:44.We've been asking you what your favourite book is
:03:45. > :04:05.Now they might not be cuddly, but they are pretty cute.
:04:06. > :04:08.These prickly pets are the new fashion in America.
:04:09. > :04:12.Owners say they are easy to keep and not too spiky to handle.
:04:13. > :04:14.These american hedgehogs have been specially bred as pets.
:04:15. > :04:17.In the UK, hedgehogs are a wild animal so should not be
:04:18. > :04:25.And lastly, check out this very unusual sporting
:04:26. > :04:28.event, where wrestlers go toe-to-toe to battle it out.
:04:29. > :04:30.Here at the 38th World Toe Wrestling Championships
:04:31. > :04:32.contestants went through gruelling rounds to get their opponents ankle
:04:33. > :04:41.But there really was, "toe contest", for Alan Nash,
:04:42. > :04:59.That's all from me. We are back this evening. You can go to to the
:05:00. > :05:00.website