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We'll bring you the best stories from across the word.

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Girls who have escaped the war and face a life of forced marriage.

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Refugees here tell us there is an organised trade in young girls

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involving Syrian brokers and men mainly from the Gulf states.

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A test of characters. Celia Hassen asks if new technology is making

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Chinese people forget how to write. And monkey see, monkey do. The

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Gibraltar `` the mischievous macaques of Gibraltar.

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Imagine escaping the horrors of Syria's civil war only to be thrown

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into a life of hell as a child bride. That is happening to more and

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more girls from Syria, some as young `` as 12. Rates of child marriage

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have doubled and now nearly one third of children who have float ``

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bleeding statue Free Syrian Army are being married. `` who have fled to

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Syria are being married. Born into Excel. This girl is just a

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few hours old, a child of a refugee camp. His weary mother was married

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at 16. The war in Syria took home and her childhood. The midwife gives

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her a quick lesson in motherhood. The girl says she would rather be

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doing lessons in school but her parents made her get married. This

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young mother, who asked us to conceive her identity, was married

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at 15. She now has a treasured daughter.

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It is wrong for a child to raise a child, she tells me. There are so

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many financial and family problems. She may lose her daughter, her

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husband is threatening to take the baby away because she wants a

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divorce. The camp is an expanse of the dispossessed. A place of

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interrupted lives. Families here look for ways to safeguard their

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daughters. Some Syrians have a tradition of early marriage. But for

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others, Ward changed the landscape. Like this girl, North and learning

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to be a housewife. She fled Syria with her extended family. When she

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had to share a Portakabin with male relatives. She was married off at 13

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to her 19`year`old cousin. Now, a year later, she is pregnant.

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TRANSLATION: I am scared of having a baby because

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ICI will not be able to look after it. I wish I could have continued my

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studies and become a doctor and not got married so young.

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+ the camp, in the nearby city, many teenage girls are effectively being

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sold. Refugees here tell us there is now an organised trade in young

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girls involving Syrian brokers and men, mainly from the Gulf states.

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The men make a donation to needy families. Then, first question they

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ask, is do you have any daughters? Most have an age group in mind. They

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want girls who are 14 to 15. Sometimes, even 13. This girl, who

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does not want to be named, was married at 14 to a 50`year`old from

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Kool`Aid. He abandoned her when she got pregnant. `` from Kuwait. Now

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she is struggling to support her son.

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TRANSLATION: Usually, a girl's wedding day is the

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happiest in her life. For me, it was the saddest. Everyone was telling me

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to smile, but my feeling was fear. From the moment we got engaged. I

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was very scared. Her mother, a war widow, had seven

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other mouths to feed. TRANSLATION:

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She told me she gave away her daughter for a total of $14,000

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because she was desperate but said that she would

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child this way. Back in the camp, a bride

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wedding day. Her family did not want us to show her face. She is 13.

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Because of the conflict in Syria, there were no big celebrations. It

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looked like she was playing at dressing up. But, young and she is,

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marriage is no longer just a game. It has 85,000 characters and can

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take years just to learn the basics. Chinese is probably the world's most

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difficult language. But along with gunpowder and paper, Chinese

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consider the creation of Glucophage one of their finest contribution to

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civilisation. `` of calligraphy. But is Chinese handwriting becoming a

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relic of history? Celia Hassen says many are forgetting how to write

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their own language. Millions in China June into this

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television game show every week. It is like a spelling bee. These young

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contestants must write Chinese characters by hand. Every stroke,

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every `, must be in the right place. This 17`year`old is bombed

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from the contest. Translation macro I wanted to complete before I was

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too old. Contestants typically spent months

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studying dictionaries to prepare for the show. But all over the country,

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Chinese people are forgetting how to write their own language. Without

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computerised help. There is no Chinese alphabet. Each word is

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represented by a symbol, or a character. There are more than

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85,000 of them. But smartphones and computers use every day here have

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eliminated the need to remember how to write those characters. The

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result, it is possible to recognise characters without remembering how

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to write them. How serious is China's so`called character and knee

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jerk? We conducted an exam of our own. This man struggled with the

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character for farm. Others had eight tough time of writing toad. Easy in

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English, but cooking in Chinese. No one could write this famously

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difficult word for sleaze. `` sneeze. But there is still hope for

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the humble paintbrush. China's education ministry wants children to

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spend more time learning how to write. At this public school,

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children practice calligraphy everyday.

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TRANSLATION: Teachers and kids are remembering

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how to write together. It is common for teachers to forget certain

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words. On warm days, practice takes place

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outdoors. A lesson in not just learning how to write but in a busy

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changing China, how to slow down. Preserving Chinese traditional

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culture before it disappears. They are one of Gibraltar's greatest

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tourist attractions but they are becoming a nuisance. The Barbary

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macaque monkeys are cute but some say they are causing mayhem and

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getting too close for comfort. The authorities are trying to find some

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of them a new home. Our reporter has been on the Trail of the cheeky

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monkeys. They live on top of the rock. Give

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me five! They know the locals and amuse the tourists. He is looking

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for food. But in search of a meal, Gibraltar's monkeys are venturing

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into town. Great, if you are visiting. We did not think we would

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see a monkey perched on the ledge. In the middle of the street! But the

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monkeys have a taste for what humans can provide. Macaques are very

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clever. Just like humans, you can offer macaques in a banana and at

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the moment, resources are provided for providing a more open space so

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that they can go there. We are trying to get the macaques out of

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the town into the nature reserve. And they are also working to control

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their numbers. 30 monkeys will be exported. To a safari park abroad.

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Gibraltar's monkeys are full to have travelled here on ships several

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centuries ago and they have become an important natural is `` national

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symbol. There was a cult to control their numbers several years ago but

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that is not seen as part of the solution. They will get a new home.

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The monkeys are an asset, but sometimes, some of them... Hey! Some

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of them are nuisance neighbours as well.

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That is all from Reporters. From all of us, goodbye.

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Believing. For the next few days, we will be talking about high pressure.

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But there are some weather fronts complicating things as well. For

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Sunday, we are expecting sunny spells. Still a few

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