Those most at risk are very young women, barely out of childhood. Around 700 million women worldwide were married before they turned 18. In south asia, one in two girls are child brides. And in africa and latin america child marriages are commonplace. That figure is 12 in kyrgyzstan, a country that also has a particularly extreme version of forced marriage bride abduction. In weddings in kyrgyzstan can be lavish affairs. City hall in the capital bishkek is known as the wedding palace and it lives up to its name. Miriam and asamat are getting married today. Their parents have organized and paid for the huge wedding. It cost at least thirty thousand euros. The families are welloff. But what sets this wedding apart is that miriam has actually chosen to marry. Her tears are tears of joy. Thats not always the case in kyrgyzstan. Vladimir zai sells white doves outside the wedding palace. He tells us about the all too common practice in kyrgyzstan of abducting brides. Called alakachuu, it mea
Emerged of the agonizing deaths suffered by hundreds of thousands of saiga antelopes in the kazakhstan steppes. The cause an aggressive bacteria. That much was clear. But why was the damage so extensive . A group of researchers are determined to find out, and our reporter inga sieg and her cameraman Axel Warnstedt joined them on their quest. But its difficult to locate the few remaining animals. The antyn dala steppe is vast, and on top of that, saiga inga ese reseers have animals. Been on the go for days, looking for saigas across the vast grasslands of the kazakh steppe. Steffen the greatest challenge is finding the animals, because their population is now much smaller and we dont know exactly where they are. We sighted them when we took a count two weeks ago, but afterwards they went elsewhere and no one has seen themince then. The territory is just incredibly large. Inga the protected area is as large as france. Its like looking for a needle in a haystack. After the mass dieoff las
Thousands of saiga antelopes in the kazakhstan steppes. The cause an aggressive bacteria. That much was clear. But why was the damage so extensive . A group of researchers are determined to find out, and our reporter inga sieg and her cameraman Axel Warnstedt joined them on their quest. But its difficult to locate the few remaining animals. The antyn dala steppe is vast, and on top of that, saiga antelopes are very shy animals. Inga these researchers have been on the go for days, looking for saigas across the vast grasslands of the kazakh steppe. Steffen the greatest challenge is finding the animals, because their population is now much smaller and we dont know exactly where they are. We sighted them when we took a count two weeks ago, but afterwards they went elsewhere and no one has seen them since then. The territory is just incredibly large. Inga the protected area is as large as france. Its like looking for a needle in a haystack. After the mass dieoff last year, the saiga antelop
Suffered by hundreds of thousands of saiga antelopes in the kazakhstan steppes. The cause an aggressive bacteria. That much was clear. But why was the damage so extensive . A group of researchers are determined to find out, and our reporter inga sieg and her cameraman Axel Warnstedt joined them on their quest. But its difficult to locate the few remaining animals. The antyn dala steppe is vast, and on top of that, saiga antelopes are very shy animals. Inga these researchers have been on the go for days, looking for saigas across the vast grasslands of the kazakh steppe. Steffen the greatest challenge is finding the animals, because their population is now much smaller and we dont know exactly where they are. We sighted them when we took a count two weeks ago, but afterwards they went elsewhere and no one has seen them since then. The territory is just incredibly large. Inga the protected area is as large as france. Its like looking for a needle in a haystack. After the mass dieoff last
Thousands of saiga antelopes in the kazakhstan steppes. The cause an aggressive bacteria. That much was clear. But why was the damage so extensive . A group of researchers are determined to find out, and our reporter inga sieg and her cameraman Axel Warnstedt joined them on their quest. But its difficult to locate the few remaining animals. The antyn dala steppe is vast, and on top of that, saiga antelopes are very shy animals. Inga these researchers have been on the go for days, looking for saigas across the vast grasslands of the kazakh steppe. Steffen the greatest challenge is finding the animals, because their population is now much smaller and we dont know exactly where they are. We sighted them when we took a count two weeks ago, but afterwards they went elsewhere and no one has seen them since then. The territory is just incredibly large. Inga the protected area is as large as france. Its like looking for a needle in a haystack. After the mass dieoff last year, the saiga antelop