03/06/2014 Newsround

Hi, I am Ayshah. Coming up: The prickly pets which are all the rage

in America. On your marks, get set, toe, we check out this unusual

sporting event. You might think the issue

of slavery was tackled a long time ago but in fact it's a crime that's

growing throughout the world. In the UK alone there are estimated

to be more than 4,000 people being forced to work against their will

as modern slaves. Tomorrow the Queen will announce

plans to introduce an anti-slavery The BBC spoke to one girl who came

to England when she was 15 and was She's now safe

but wants to remain anonymous. I was cleaning and a glass broke, I

was wearing pyjamas and it was snowing outside. She pushed me

outside while it was snowing and I wasn't wearing any shoes from 9.00

am to the next day, I couldn't come inside the house. I wanted to run

but I didn't know where to go. My English wasn't good.

Joining me now is Ben Cooley from the anti-slavery charity Hope for

Justice. How big a problem is this the UK? There's thousands of victims

of human trafficking and slavery. Women, children, men, families have

been brought in and exploited in our country. Why is this happening, why

can't victims just leave? Why keep people - they're fed with fear so

much, they're scared of leaving. These are victims, that's why

organisations like ours and the police are trying to reach out to

these people to help them out. Why what is being done? Os like the

police and non-Government organisations are trying to find

victims and help them and help them into a safe place. Once they get to

a safe place what treatment and what sort of facilities are there for

people? There's great aftercare facilities in our country that help

them to give them counselling, to make sure that what they've gone

through is over. Finally, how is this new bill going to help? Well,

one of the most important things is life imprisonment for people who are

doing this, the slave owners. That will be a great deterrent to

traffickers in our country that this crime is wrong. Thank you very much.

In the last hour, voting in the presidential elections

The country is locked in a civil war, which has been going

President Assad's forces are fighting opposition groups who don't

want him in power anymore, but he is widely expected to be

The BBC's Jeremy Bowen has been to the Syrian capital of Damascus and

There is the view you get from the opposition, and from western

countries and from critics of what the regime here does. That is that

it's a sham, that it's a bad joke. The question asked is how can you

hope to have a fair election in a country that's having a civil war?

There is a defence against all those arguments which you hear in

Damascus. It is that this election is a beginning, the first time since

the 50s, there are three faces on the ballot paper and not just one.

Winnie the Pooh has been named as the favourite children's book

of the past 150 years, in a poll of more than 2,000 adults.

We've been asking you what your favourite book is

Now they might not be cuddly, but they are pretty cute.

These prickly pets are the new fashion in America.

Owners say they are easy to keep and not too spiky to handle.

These american hedgehogs have been specially bred as pets.

In the UK, hedgehogs are a wild animal so should not be

And lastly, check out this very unusual sporting

event, where wrestlers go toe-to-toe to battle it out.

Here at the 38th World Toe Wrestling Championships

contestants went through gruelling rounds to get their opponents ankle

But there really was, "toe contest", for Alan Nash,

That's all from me. We are back this evening. You can go to to the

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