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