once the islamic clerics rule, the first loser is the women. to try to understand what's happening, i've come to the courthouse in sadr city. just outside, clerics are conducting marriages and divorces but under islamic law, sharia. he is doing a sharia divorce. it only takes five minutes.

divorce under sharia law is easier than under iraqi civil law and leaves women with fewer rights. sharia also allows child marriage. what is the youngest age that you will marry? under iraqi civil law, a girl must be 15 to marry but that doesn't seem to bother some clerics.

inside the court, i see the consequences. iraqi law doesn't recognise sharia marriages. so, to be legal, couples must have had a marriage signed off by a judge. thejudges here should be enforcing the minimum age for marriage but that is not what i'm seeing. she is getting her marriage registered. she's dressed like a grown woman but actually, she's only 13 years old. a cleric married her to her husband under sharia law six months ago. now, she's pregnant. because she got married underage, herfather and groom could get two years in prison.

instead, they've been fined $50. it's up to the judge and these days, many are lenient. there is a queue of fathers waiting for their daughters to get married before the judge. this man is here with his 14—year—old daughter. he didn't want her face shown. why are you marrying your daughter off so young?

is there anything that you're going to miss in your previous life? the court's social worker is registering the teenage brides and their grooms. she has processed 126 teenage marriages in the last six weeks. she predicts almost all of them will end in divorce.

i was about to meet a girl who was married at 12 and divorced at 13. we will call her rasul. for her safety, an actor is speaking her exact words. estranged from her family with her sister to support, she told me she met a man who offered her a pleasure marriage. in a pleasure marriage, a man pays a woman to be his wife for an aggrieved period of time. —— in agreed time. it's practised in shia islam though it is illegal under iraqi law.

many clerics argue it helps for honourable women get a fee. —— for vulnerable women to get a fee. she accepted his offer and the marriage was conducted. after a few weeks, he left her. the cleric told her that now she would never find a real husband. you become vulnerable to that cleric who whispers in your ear he has the solution. they call it temporary marriage being thrown off from one man to the other, to the third, to the fourth, until you find out that you're

a prostitute with a religious cover. rasul has been pimped by the cleric for three years. forced to have sex with dozens of men.

ali is a married professional in his 40s. he does pleasure marriages for sex and says he always pays clerics to find him girls.

the only way to get evidence on

camera of clerics exploiting young girls using pleasure marriage was to go undercover. this man, his title means that he —— claims he has ascended from the prophet muhammad. at the holy shrine, our reporter went with him to his marriage office. it was time for the crucial question. would the cleric agreed to provide a girl?

in the holy city, we also found a shake who was going to do a pleasure marriage with a young girl. —— a sheik.

a few weeks later, our reporter finds out if he too can procure girls. he told a reporter he could offer him a choice of women.

our reporter and the cleric agreed to meet in a cafe in baghdad to finalise arrangements. the sheik said he had a girl waiting.

the sheik says he had arranged a place where our reporter could have six with her. —— have sex with her. we have enough proof he can find girls so we left it there. this was a man of god acting as a pimp. he wasn't the only one. we also had evidence from another woman who endured such prostitution. she had been widowed by an is bomb. penniless she had done a pleasure marriage with a senior cleric and then he started pimp her to his friends. it began one night when he brought three men.

we can't attend five which cleric

has abused her, but she says that he is in one of these offices... the lucky ones reached our shelters. the lucky ones reached our shelters. the ones that are not lucky... what happens to them? they end up in brothels and they don't with long. i would say their life expectancy is like 35. we saw many who were about to throw themselves off the bridge into the river. we had evidence clerics had ruined women's mice with pleasure marriages. we filmed a cleric boasting he had girls for sale. —— women's's lives. now, after months of preparation, we were about to see if we could catch a cleric

introducing our undercover reporter toa girl introducing our undercover reporter to a girl he was peppy. our porter set up another meeting with the sayyid. —— our reporter. once he felt safe, he signalled to a young woman in the back of his taxi. she says she's 26. to protect her, we have discussed her identity. our reporter makes it clear he is only here to talk. it was very difficult meeting but it was important to prove he brought girls.

the sayyid took charge of the negotiations. the sayyid seemed keen to get the deal done as quickly as possible. we had the evidence we needed. it was time to end the meeting. our

reporter took the sayyid aside and said he would not go ahead with the pleasure marriage. but the sayyid was not ready to give up but the sayyid was not ready to give up on the deal for but the sayyid was not ready to give up on the dealfor ——. we had captured evidence that a cleric was prepared to pimp a young girl. the cleric wanted his $400. he was willing to bring as young as he has to. hejust

was willing to bring as young as he has to. he just did not want to let that deal go past him. that's a good franchise for the... these vampires. they suck the life out of young girls and leave them to deal with their miseries. we wa nted we wanted to put our allegations to the clerics we filmed, but it was too dangerous to put it in person. i phone him from london.

he hung up. ok. we also sought responses from the two of the clerics we secretly filmed. neither of them replied. we put our evidence to iraq's grand ayatollah said tony, one of the most senior clerics in the islam. in a statement he said...

—— grand ayatollah sistani. he said the abuses we'd seen were happening... and an iraqi government spokesperson told bbc arabic if women don't go to the police against clerics, it is difficult for the authorities to act. but for many young women across iraq, there is no hope of justice. young women across iraq, there is no hope ofjustice. she is still being picked out by a cleric. she feels she has no other choice. the other escape the cleric. she is still traumatised.

hello there. already some parts of the country has seen about half a

months worth of rain in just a day oi’ months worth of rain in just a day or two. and the outlook is very mixed. it will not be raining all the time however there will be some spells of rain with the ground very wet, there is risk of further flooding. most of the rain we are seeing at the moment at least across southern areas is coming from this conveyor belt, this ribbon of cloud here, very wet air keeping rain going. that will be around throughout the weekend. as far as saturday is concerned, it is mainly raining across southern parts of england. the rain could affect south wales at times and perhaps the south midlands and ec may have. many places will be dry for the north. accord day where we have that ran across southern areas. “— accord day where we have that ran across southern areas. —— a cooler day. it starts to push its way northwards further to england and wales. this weather front is bringing all that rain, that will bringing all that rain, that will bring some widespread rang on saturday night to england and wales.

another area of low pressure will keep the wet weather going further west. rain from overnight pushes its way into the north sea but for the western areas, we have got the showers and even longer spells of rain which could be heavy as well continuing into the afternoon. it may well brighten up a little bit so temperature is 16 degrees in the south—east of england and 11 celsius in the central part of scotland. a lot of uncertainty for the beginning of next week. particularly around this area of low pressure coming in from behind our main rain band. at the moment it looks like it will be wales, the south west of it meant that see the most of that rain but the position could change. saw some rain cleared away from the extreme southeast of england but elsewhere

much of the country actually having a drier day. a little bit of sunshine coming through and temperatures 12—14 degrees. that area of low pressure that does form will tend to weaken, trip will come away as well. more weather coming from the atlantic. a few showers as we head into tuesday, rain clearing in the south—east of anglia and sunshine, winds picking up in northern and western areas. that rain arriving in northern ireland during the afternoon. about 14—16 degrees not too bad for this time of year. we have rain coming in from the atlantic and it is anchored by that area of low pressure. that will bea that area of low pressure. that will be a future of the weather through the rest of next week. the rain band will be a little heavy at times over the hills of scotland during wednesday, it pushes its way eastwards, it may dawdle in the south west corner, most other areas will brighten up. there will be some sunshine but rather blustery showers as well for sub 12—16 degrees. the new normal for this as well for sub 12—16 degrees. the new normalfor this time as well for sub 12—16 degrees. the new normal for this time of year. the outlook, that area of pressure will keep showers going throughout the end of next week. and then this ridge of high pressure may white things down over the weekend but it is never really dominant because

it's... it brings more wind and more rain. if we look at the jet stream in the hermas here, we have got the jet stream in this sort of position later on next week. then the cooler air, thejet later on next week. then the cooler air, the jet stream later on next week. then the cooler air, thejet stream changes position. that's what would drive in that deep area of low pressure and bring more rain and bring celestial he air. essentially what i am saying is there is no settled weather insightful some —— in sight.

tonight at ten: 100,000 people have left their homes in northern syria, says the un — fleeing turkey's attack on kurdish—held areas. with fighting intensifying, turkey's president erdogan vows to press ahead, in spite of threats from other countries. as the casualties rise, we report on one family caught in the cross fire, who today had to bury their child. when his family came to turkey they were hoping against hope to find safety. instead they were caught up in another round of warfare. tonight the us government which has been blamed for triggering the crisis said it was drafting economic sanctions against turkey. also on the programme...

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