Adopted abroad in the last three decades, with more having gone to the United States than anywhere else. Officials are currently worried there arent enough babies being born to sustain the population. Lets speak tojoshua zhong, co Founder And President of cherish Children Adoption international. Thank international. You for coming on the programme. Thank you for coming on the programme. You are an international agency and this decision will clearly impact you, what is your reaction . I am very shocked and sad to hear of the closing of China Programme which has been running for over 32 years with over 130,000 or 140,000 children adopted. Its very devastating news especially for her families who have devastating news especially for herfamilies who have been waiting here for many many years who have been delayed by the pandemic. And hoping to go to china to pick up their children and be reunited with them and come home happy. It is a very hard time indeed. Mas them and come home happy. It
A teenager accused of killing four people at his High School in georgia was interviewed last year by police about anonymous online threats. At the time, local schools had reportedly been told to continue monitoring him. Four people were killed in the incident, two fourteen year old pupils and two teachers at the apalachee High School in the city of winder. Nine others were taken to hospital. The boy, named as Colt Gray, was arrested on campus and will be prosecuted as an adult. People came together to hold a vigil following the shootings in georgia. Students, families, and teachers held candles and prayed for the victims as the community tries to come to grips with the tragedy. The director of the Georgia Bureau of investigation has been speaking to the press this morning, and said the suspect had been questioned last year about threats posted online to carry out a School Shooting. The Jackson County Sheriff S Office identified and located Colt Gray who was our suspect in this case, t
Until 2026. Todays other stories, the ugandan Marathon Runner Rebecca cheptegei has died four days after being set on fire in an alleged attack by herformer boyfriend. Her former boyfriend. Palestinian health officials say at least five people have been killed in an israeli Drone Strike in a car on the occupied West Bank. Welcome back here to our position at Grenfell Tower, that familiar green height and the Words Grenfell forever in our hearts. A familiar site for so many people who have followed the tragedy of this fire when it happened in 2017, june 2017, and the story of the survivors, the relatives of those who died as a result of the fire. They followed that story, as well as those. Story, as well as they the fire. They followed that story, as well as they are still waiting for justice, story, as well as they are still Waiting Forjustice, and that follows the report after the second part of the inquiry into the tragedy revealed yesterday setting out a catalogue of failures. The s
To do that, let s begin with mike isaac, tech correspondent for the new york times, who s in san francisco. We didn t quite know a lot from the very beginning. We understood that durov was detained, and it was pretty clandestine in the beginning. Then later, the french prosecutors let out a few different reasons. According to a sort of brief statement, it was facilitating child pornography, human trafficking, drug trafficking, a sort of vague reference to encryption issues on the app. So it was kind of a laundry list of issues. More broadly, mike, were you surprised that this happened in france? so, this is. . . One of the fascinating aspects of this case is, you know, it s a big deal in any sort of country at this point, i believe, to really take under arrest the ceo of a major tech company, especially one used by almost a billion people, that telegram is. I think the distinction that s important here is that the arrest was made not under eu sort of broader laws, but specifically unde