:00:23. > :00:26.We'll bring you the best stories from across the word.
:00:27. > :00:40.Girls who have escaped the war and face a life of forced marriage.
:00:41. > :00:46.Refugees here tell us there is an organised trade in young girls
:00:47. > :00:54.involving Syrian brokers and men mainly from the Gulf states.
:00:55. > :00:58.A test of characters. Celia Hassen asks if new technology is making
:00:59. > :01:03.Chinese people forget how to write. And monkey see, monkey do. The
:01:04. > :01:13.Gibraltar `` the mischievous macaques of Gibraltar.
:01:14. > :01:20.Imagine escaping the horrors of Syria's civil war only to be thrown
:01:21. > :01:25.into a life of hell as a child bride. That is happening to more and
:01:26. > :01:28.more girls from Syria, some as young `` as 12. Rates of child marriage
:01:29. > :01:37.have doubled and now nearly one third of children who have float ``
:01:38. > :01:45.bleeding statue Free Syrian Army are being married. `` who have fled to
:01:46. > :01:52.Syria are being married. Born into Excel. This girl is just a
:01:53. > :01:58.few hours old, a child of a refugee camp. His weary mother was married
:01:59. > :02:06.at 16. The war in Syria took home and her childhood. The midwife gives
:02:07. > :02:11.her a quick lesson in motherhood. The girl says she would rather be
:02:12. > :02:17.doing lessons in school but her parents made her get married. This
:02:18. > :02:21.young mother, who asked us to conceive her identity, was married
:02:22. > :02:29.at 15. She now has a treasured daughter.
:02:30. > :02:37.It is wrong for a child to raise a child, she tells me. There are so
:02:38. > :02:42.many financial and family problems. She may lose her daughter, her
:02:43. > :02:47.husband is threatening to take the baby away because she wants a
:02:48. > :02:51.divorce. The camp is an expanse of the dispossessed. A place of
:02:52. > :02:56.interrupted lives. Families here look for ways to safeguard their
:02:57. > :03:04.daughters. Some Syrians have a tradition of early marriage. But for
:03:05. > :03:09.others, Ward changed the landscape. Like this girl, North and learning
:03:10. > :03:15.to be a housewife. She fled Syria with her extended family. When she
:03:16. > :03:21.had to share a Portakabin with male relatives. She was married off at 13
:03:22. > :03:26.to her 19`year`old cousin. Now, a year later, she is pregnant.
:03:27. > :03:30.TRANSLATION: I am scared of having a baby because
:03:31. > :03:34.ICI will not be able to look after it. I wish I could have continued my
:03:35. > :03:42.studies and become a doctor and not got married so young.
:03:43. > :03:48.+ the camp, in the nearby city, many teenage girls are effectively being
:03:49. > :03:52.sold. Refugees here tell us there is now an organised trade in young
:03:53. > :03:58.girls involving Syrian brokers and men, mainly from the Gulf states.
:03:59. > :04:04.The men make a donation to needy families. Then, first question they
:04:05. > :04:10.ask, is do you have any daughters? Most have an age group in mind. They
:04:11. > :04:16.want girls who are 14 to 15. Sometimes, even 13. This girl, who
:04:17. > :04:21.does not want to be named, was married at 14 to a 50`year`old from
:04:22. > :04:29.Kool`Aid. He abandoned her when she got pregnant. `` from Kuwait. Now
:04:30. > :04:30.she is struggling to support her son.
:04:31. > :04:36.TRANSLATION: Usually, a girl's wedding day is the
:04:37. > :04:41.happiest in her life. For me, it was the saddest. Everyone was telling me
:04:42. > :04:46.to smile, but my feeling was fear. From the moment we got engaged. I
:04:47. > :04:52.was very scared. Her mother, a war widow, had seven
:04:53. > :05:02.other mouths to feed. TRANSLATION:
:05:03. > :05:05.She told me she gave away her daughter for a total of $14,000
:05:06. > :05:10.because she was desperate but said that she would
:05:11. > :05:15.child this way. Back in the camp, a bride
:05:16. > :05:20.wedding day. Her family did not want us to show her face. She is 13.
:05:21. > :05:24.Because of the conflict in Syria, there were no big celebrations. It
:05:25. > :05:27.looked like she was playing at dressing up. But, young and she is,
:05:28. > :05:39.marriage is no longer just a game. It has 85,000 characters and can
:05:40. > :05:44.take years just to learn the basics. Chinese is probably the world's most
:05:45. > :05:49.difficult language. But along with gunpowder and paper, Chinese
:05:50. > :05:55.consider the creation of Glucophage one of their finest contribution to
:05:56. > :06:00.civilisation. `` of calligraphy. But is Chinese handwriting becoming a
:06:01. > :06:06.relic of history? Celia Hassen says many are forgetting how to write
:06:07. > :06:13.their own language. Millions in China June into this
:06:14. > :06:18.television game show every week. It is like a spelling bee. These young
:06:19. > :06:25.contestants must write Chinese characters by hand. Every stroke,
:06:26. > :06:30.every `, must be in the right place. This 17`year`old is bombed
:06:31. > :06:37.from the contest. Translation macro I wanted to complete before I was
:06:38. > :06:40.too old. Contestants typically spent months
:06:41. > :06:45.studying dictionaries to prepare for the show. But all over the country,
:06:46. > :06:50.Chinese people are forgetting how to write their own language. Without
:06:51. > :06:54.computerised help. There is no Chinese alphabet. Each word is
:06:55. > :07:01.represented by a symbol, or a character. There are more than
:07:02. > :07:06.85,000 of them. But smartphones and computers use every day here have
:07:07. > :07:11.eliminated the need to remember how to write those characters. The
:07:12. > :07:17.result, it is possible to recognise characters without remembering how
:07:18. > :07:22.to write them. How serious is China's so`called character and knee
:07:23. > :07:28.jerk? We conducted an exam of our own. This man struggled with the
:07:29. > :07:34.character for farm. Others had eight tough time of writing toad. Easy in
:07:35. > :07:39.English, but cooking in Chinese. No one could write this famously
:07:40. > :07:48.difficult word for sleaze. `` sneeze. But there is still hope for
:07:49. > :07:51.the humble paintbrush. China's education ministry wants children to
:07:52. > :07:55.spend more time learning how to write. At this public school,
:07:56. > :08:00.children practice calligraphy everyday.
:08:01. > :08:04.TRANSLATION: Teachers and kids are remembering
:08:05. > :08:08.how to write together. It is common for teachers to forget certain
:08:09. > :08:14.words. On warm days, practice takes place
:08:15. > :08:20.outdoors. A lesson in not just learning how to write but in a busy
:08:21. > :08:21.changing China, how to slow down. Preserving Chinese traditional
:08:22. > :08:31.culture before it disappears. They are one of Gibraltar's greatest
:08:32. > :08:35.tourist attractions but they are becoming a nuisance. The Barbary
:08:36. > :08:39.macaque monkeys are cute but some say they are causing mayhem and
:08:40. > :08:44.getting too close for comfort. The authorities are trying to find some
:08:45. > :08:48.of them a new home. Our reporter has been on the Trail of the cheeky
:08:49. > :08:56.monkeys. They live on top of the rock. Give
:08:57. > :09:07.me five! They know the locals and amuse the tourists. He is looking
:09:08. > :09:13.for food. But in search of a meal, Gibraltar's monkeys are venturing
:09:14. > :09:19.into town. Great, if you are visiting. We did not think we would
:09:20. > :09:26.see a monkey perched on the ledge. In the middle of the street! But the
:09:27. > :09:36.monkeys have a taste for what humans can provide. Macaques are very
:09:37. > :09:45.clever. Just like humans, you can offer macaques in a banana and at
:09:46. > :09:50.the moment, resources are provided for providing a more open space so
:09:51. > :09:53.that they can go there. We are trying to get the macaques out of
:09:54. > :09:59.the town into the nature reserve. And they are also working to control
:10:00. > :10:06.their numbers. 30 monkeys will be exported. To a safari park abroad.
:10:07. > :10:09.Gibraltar's monkeys are full to have travelled here on ships several
:10:10. > :10:16.centuries ago and they have become an important natural is `` national
:10:17. > :10:23.symbol. There was a cult to control their numbers several years ago but
:10:24. > :10:27.that is not seen as part of the solution. They will get a new home.
:10:28. > :10:32.The monkeys are an asset, but sometimes, some of them... Hey! Some
:10:33. > :10:37.of them are nuisance neighbours as well.
:10:38. > :10:57.That is all from Reporters. From all of us, goodbye.
:10:58. > :11:08.Believing. For the next few days, we will be talking about high pressure.
:11:09. > :11:14.But there are some weather fronts complicating things as well. For
:11:15. > :11:15.Sunday, we are expecting sunny spells. Still a few