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Now, time for reporters. `` time for Reporters. | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
Hello, and welcome to Reporters. From here in the world 's newsroom, | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
we send our correspondence to get the best stories from across the | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
globe. In this week 's programme, Niger's child brides. We report from | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
the world 's poorest nations were most girls are married by the age of | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
15. He was treated me. One day he locked me in the bedroom, it was as | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
if he raped me. TRANSLATION: Please, no terrorism any more. The | :00:50. | :01:01. | |
Pope 's prayers for peace. It is a hard life, Rupert Wingfield Hayes | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
finds out why the Japanese are turning their backs on sumo | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
wrestling. It has existed for well over 1000 years. Now, Japan's most | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
iconic sport is in deep trouble. And, it is all in your head. Our | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
correspondent tries out the `` tries at the computer that American | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
scientists say can read your mind. `` tries out. A country where many | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
girls see little of their childhood. Niger has one of the world 's | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
highest rates of child marriage. Nearly one quarter of girls are | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
married by the time they are 15. It is a social phenomenon bruited in | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
poverty, a young bride can be sold for thousands of dollars. It also | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
highlights the overall low position of women in society, in one of the | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
world 's least developed nations. The government encouraged by the UN | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
have tried to provide more protection to girls. In this land, | :01:54. | :02:09. | |
all choice is for survival. It is one of the least developed nations, | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
with the highest birth rates, Niger. The price fetched by a young | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
bride can transform the lives of her family. The bride price is part of | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
African customs. These nomads say that as well as locals, wealthy | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
Nigerians were now offering big money for beautiful girls. In our | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
view it is not a good thing, this man said, it is like a business. We | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
don't want that. A girl can fetch thousands of pounds, depending on | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
her beauty. Amina has no job, is separated from her husband, and has | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
a 15`year`old daughter. She says it is her daughter's choice, but she | :02:50. | :03:04. | |
would welcome a wealthy husband. Many families don't have a choice. | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
If they have beautiful girls that someone from Nigeria wants to marry | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
by giving millions, they get married for this. Even though she is young. | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
The legal age of marriage is 15, and nearly a quarter of girls are | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
married by then. Childhood vanishes. For this woman, there was the trauma | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
of being forced to have sex at age 13. TRANSLATION: I didn't think it | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
was about marrying someone I would be happy with. I was very young, and | :03:31. | :03:47. | |
I didn't have anyone to whom I could go for advice. He was always trying | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
to make it clear that it was as if he had bought me, that it was not | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
because I wanted him but because he had bought me. He mistreated me at | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
home, he mistreated me. One day he looked me in the bedroom, it is as | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
if he raped me. For child brides there can also be traumatic medical | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
consequences. ``locked. Young bodies damaged because they are not ready | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
to give birth. This is a clinic for the treatment of fistula, a | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
gynaecological condition that leads to incontinence and infection. This | :04:12. | :04:20. | |
girl, married at 14. This girl, married at 12. This girl married at | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
15. They are comforted by Madame Traore, a symbol of African dynamism | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
fighting back against child marriage. Getting change is very | :04:27. | :04:38. | |
difficult and very costly, it is not easy, because most of the population | :04:39. | :04:51. | |
is illiterate. They don't go to school and they don't allow the | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
girls to go to school. Change is difficult. Economic desperation is | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
driving the decisions of many families, but there is, in this | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
society, a long tradition of such marriages. There isn't the taboo | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
that exists nowadays in the West. Also, religious leaders here are | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
giving explicit encouragement to child marriage. The government, | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
encouraged by the UN, have tried to provide more protection for girls | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
but face religious opposition. At this Koranic school, the Sheikh | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
insist Islam allows for child marriage. It depends on the body of | :05:24. | :05:32. | |
the girl and the man's body. If they are mature, the marriage can be OK | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
also. In Islamic faith, a girl can get married if she is in good health | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
at age nine. To a great many people, what you are saying sounds like you | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
are making excuses for child abuse. No, this is not what I mean. I told | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
you, there are rules to follow. If you follow the Islamic rules for | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
this kind of marriage, we will never have this kind of problem. Such hope | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
as there is comes from education and the example set by individuals. Like | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
this woman, forced into marriage and sex at just 13. Now, studying to be | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
a nurse and hoping to change her world. | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
Fergal Keane, BBC News, northern Niger. Can the Pope build bridges | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
between Israelis and Palestinians were many others have failed? This | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
week he told the Middle East in an attempt to mediate in the peace | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
process. He visited some of the most important holy sites for Muslims and | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
Jews, and urged people of all faiths to work together. Jeremy Bowen | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
followed the Pope on his final day of his historic visit. Every day of | :06:44. | :07:00. | |
this trip, he has made carefully calibrated gestures to deliver | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
messages. At the Western Wall, the holiest place in the world where | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
Jews can pray, he touched the stones and follow tradition by placing his | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
own prayer between them. 24 hours earlier, the Pope chose the same | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
symbolic gesture at the barrier Israel has built to separate | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
Bethlehem, run by Palestinians, from Jerusalem. The Palestinians took | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
that as his silent condemnation of what they call the Apartheid Wall. | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
Next to a memorial to Jews who died in an attack in Argentina, the Pope | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
's own country, Israel's Prime Minister delivered his answer, that | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
the barrier is vital for Israel's security. If we completed the wall | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
then, thousands would have been saved. We have saved thousands | :07:46. | :07:59. | |
because we have this wall. TRANSLATION: Please, no terrorism | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
any more. Then, the Pope reached out, the same gesture he used at the | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
walls in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Next, Israel's memorial to the six | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
million Jews killed by the Nazis, often after they were transported to | :08:10. | :08:19. | |
death camps in cattle trucks. The Pope said that he was shamed by what | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
man was capable of doing as he paid his respects at the Hall of | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
Remembrance to the Holocaust. This Israeli leg of the trip is as | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
important to the Middle East peace initiative as the time he spent with | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
the Palestinians. He did more than most visiting leaders to show the | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
Palestinians that he believes in their case for independence. Now he | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
has to show the Israelis that he takes their concerns equally | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
seriously, or his attempt at mediation will have no chance at | :08:46. | :08:53. | |
all. The Pope's invitation to come to Rome to pray for peace has been | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
accepted by the Israeli and Palestinian presidents. Gestures | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
will not end the conflict. But they can change the atmosphere which at | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
the moment, would be more than anyone else has managed. Jeremy | :09:07. | :09:16. | |
Bowen, BBC News. It was a decisive week for Israel's | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
neighbour, it indeed jerked, as the former army chief won a landslide | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
victory in the presidential elections. He led the overthrow of | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
the previous president `` Egypt's. The police force has become a | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
visible presence on the streets. We managed to get rare access to | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
Egypt's police academy and said this report. | :09:40. | :09:50. | |
Bombings have become a part of Egypt's new reality. The stocks will | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
be instrumental in any rescues to come. This is one of many training | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
sessions going on in the police Academy, with a new tactics to take | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
on the unstable security situation. This massive campus is where future | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
policemen and women spent four years of their lives preparing to face the | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
challenge of keeping the streets of Egypt say. They tell me they are | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
excited about graduating soon and despite the danger and ongoing | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
violence they want to be there for their country. For decades the | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
police force has been seen as a tool of oppression. They were all but | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
gone after the 2011 uprising, but now they are back the theory is that | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
there are also back to their old ways. This man says police heavy | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
handedness has become even worse. He was arrested outside a mosque near | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
an Islamist protest, taken to a police station and beaten for nine | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
hours. For his safety we are not identifying him. TRANSLATION: They | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
accused me of being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and I said I am | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
not. One officer punched me in the chest and kept hitting my face. They | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
tied me to a pillar and kept hitting me. There has been a heavy crackdown | :11:12. | :11:22. | |
on protesters. Critics have described the state of human rights | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
in Egypt is abysmal. But the head of the academy disagrees and says that | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
police have been working really hard trying to wring safety back to the | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
streets. TRANSLATION: There are no angels on Earth, there are going to | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
be mistakes, but they have been blown out of proportion. These are | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
unstable times. You see the bombings and the innocent people who died. | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
There needs to be a balance between bringing security back and the issue | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
of human rights. And this balance will not be easy. When they leave | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
the academy, these recruits will face many challenges. One of them is | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
to change the notorious image of the police force. | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
It has been a bruising week for EU leaders as voters delivered what has | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
been called a Eurosceptic earthquake in elections for the European | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
Parliament. Across the region, notably in France, Greece and the | :12:23. | :12:32. | |
UK. In Britain it was the UK Independence Party which won the | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
vote. We have travelled to Hastings to find out what the UKIP search | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
tells us about how Britain sees the EU. | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
We are a country shaped by waves. Waves of European migrants landing | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
on our shores over thousands of years. But relations with our | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
continental cousins have always been strained. When William conquered the | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
near Hastings, like every foreign force before and after he could | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
never win the battle for hearts and minds. If they had quit warts and | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
those pens you hangman your Mac, the Normans were probably have | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
negotiated a bulk purchase. The Doomsday book allowed them to impose | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
foreign thinking on the governance of these islands. Ever since the | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
British have maintained a profound distrust of Eurocrats. Does our | :13:24. | :13:35. | |
ambivalence to Brussels disguise a country actually becoming more | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
European in its culture and daily life? We used to think of ascot | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
better food, better football, better to travel to. We have to adopt more | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
of that. We asked whether people felt more less connect with with our | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
European neighbours than a decade ago. 21% said more connected. 18% | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
less. But the relatively neutral figure hides a divided nature. | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
Connection to Europe seems to be getting stronger among some groups. | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
But weaker among others. You have got a degree, you read a | :14:15. | :14:24. | |
broadsheet, you travel for work, you enjoy a bit of French food. The | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
attitude is going to be different than if you are not educated, worked | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
in a traditional industry. That is a golf that is clearing Britain. We | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
reluctantly joined the European Common market. Many saw Britain as | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
the poor relation of the sophisticated continentals with | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
their fancy cheese, cars and wines. Now the UK is the destination of | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
choice for Europeans seeking a better life. Personally, I am more | :14:56. | :15:03. | |
European. Absolutely. I visit Europe a lot. I spend a lot of time there. | :15:04. | :15:12. | |
I love Europe. We have always been hypocritical when it comes to | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
Europe. We have always withdrawn when things got tough. We are more | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
continental than we would like to let on. But whether we welcome or | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
resent the consequences of that will depend on how we view | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
globalisation, as an opportunity or a threat. | :15:29. | :15:39. | |
Think of sumo and you would think of Japan. But if you are Japanese, sumo | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
is apparently the last thing on your mind. The sport is looking further | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
afield for talent. They are looking as far away as Mongolia, Hawaii and | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
Russia. We report from Tokyo on why the Japanese are turning their backs | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
on sumo. Nothing about sumo is modern. These | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
are the same moves they have been doing here for hundreds of years. | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
However, kids may look, this is hard. The temperature is just above | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
freezing, but the sweat glistens off the body. 19`year`old has come here | :16:21. | :16:35. | |
to train from Hawaii. The man shouting at him is his uncle. He was | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
once a grand champion as one of the most famous as was in Japan. `` sumo | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
wrestlers. Anyone who thinks sumo is just kept back fat men pushing each | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
other around is very wrong. The training is not just tough | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
physically, but also tough mentally. If you do not have it appear. You | :16:57. | :17:05. | |
have to be mentally tough. It is not just strength and the body. You have | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
to think that you can do it. You have to get the mentality. But fewer | :17:11. | :17:19. | |
and fewer young men in Japan wants to push hard and strike more on the | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
clay of the dojo. Sumo has existed for more than 1000 years. But now | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
Japan's most iconic sport is in deep trouble. Revenues are falling, | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
audiences falling into a city not that many young men who wants to | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
take on this. After training, it is time to cook. This is a rich stew | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
all wrestlers eat to keep their weight up. They have two it a lot. | :17:50. | :18:00. | |
Sumo was still dominated by Japanese wrestlers 25 years ago. It is now | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
all of the top wrestlers are foreign. We have not had a Japanese | :18:04. | :18:12. | |
grand champion in over ten years. And that is a problem? It is a | :18:13. | :18:23. | |
problem, I think. The foreign wrestlers are more hungry than the | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
Japanese wrestlers. Sumo is not so much a sport as a priesthood. But | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
this life requires a level of commitment few Japanese men are now | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
willing to make. Finally, what if your computer you | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
what was going on in your head? Researchers in the United States say | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
they have come close to doing just that. They have developed a brain | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
sensor that can tell when you like or dislike something, when you are | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
bored or you are stressed. We went to see how it works and what could | :19:00. | :19:08. | |
be in the future. The computer normally does not know | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
anything about you. Wouldn't it be nice if it knew whether you are very | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
busy and struggling to get by all board and coasting. Sam has got this | :19:17. | :19:29. | |
headband on. What is going on through these cables and what are we | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
finding out about them? The cables are fibre optic cables that are | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
carrying weight to the head and measured back to this machine. What | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
we can find out from that is how hard a particular part of the brain | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
is working. So you can tell how stressed someone might be at work if | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
they are wearing that, if you're feeling pressure. And if they are | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
getting bored. What practical uses might this be? If you have got a | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
team of people flying aeroplanes, it could be handed off to somebody | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
else. What it basically does is shines light and measures the late | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
coming back. It is easy to imagine that this could fit on your head | :20:14. | :20:22. | |
somewhere. The predicted workload is going below. Now just think of two | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
phone numbers and try and multiply them. This is going way up. We may | :20:29. | :20:40. | |
have stomped her. What did it say? When we gave you a mentally | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
demanding task, we can predict that the workload was higher and that the | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
workload was lower. The challenge is finding out how a computer should | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
respond. How far down the road of reading someone's mind are we going? | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
We are not reading your thoughts, we are reading your mental state. We | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
can determine that you are more less busy. In the distant future we could | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
read your thoughts, but that is a long way off. | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
That is all from reporters for this week. Goodbye for now. | :21:17. | :21:36. | |
So far, so good with the weather through this weekend. I think for | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
England and Wales, more fine weather to come on Sunday. For Scotland and | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
Northern Ireland, signs to | :21:47. | :21:47. |