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Today it's almost 40 years since Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy,

but the country still can't decide what to do with the body of... dictatorship to

the democracy, but the country still can't decide what to do with the body of the dictator General Franco.

We're in the Ardennes to hear the story of the last French soldier to be killed during World War I.

While in China our correspondent marvels at a mega bridge and at the remarkable lack of interest

his fellow travellers show on the way from Hong Kong to the mainland and we meet a

rapper for a slice of pizza in New York, New York Ukraine that is. A preference

for sons over daughters for mers, reliable breadwinners and

carriers of the family name is deeply ingrained in parts of Indian society.

So much so that there are tens of millions more men than women in the country.

Sex selective abortions are available to those who can afford them even though they're illegal.

There are also cheaper and very dangerous

alternatives on offer to those with less money. But as Sophie Cousins found, there are

some signs that things are changing.

The road to samplepler village in Northern India is

bumpy and full of obstacles, from wandering buffaloes to herds of goats, but it is

the only way I can get to mean as home. She lives in a simple

mudbrick house with her husband, daughter, in-laws and several dairy cows. In early 2016 she was 23 expecting her second child and hoping for a boy but she had a

stillbirth six months earlier Meina had taken what are known as sex selection drugs

or SSDs, traditional remedies that some Indian women turned to in the hope of securing a son. But what most of the women don't realize

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