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
around the world by the time we are done. if there is an announcement, that will come at the appropriate time. if anyone is telling you they know this or that, that is inaccurate, there has not been a decision made. todd: you re watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier. governor desantis is trailing donald trump, nikki haley and vivek ramaswamy in single digits and on the other side, r.f.k. is claiming 19% of democratic primary voters this stage of the race. republican candidate vivek ramaswamy is here in new york this morning and will be talking about the state of the race and top issues at hand. todd: we begin with brooke singman has who has more on all of it. brooke: ron desantis talked about the lawsuit die disney accusing him of government retaliation, listen to this. governor desantis: that arrangement was not good for the state of florida. we did not think that is continue and brought accountability. the idea being pro-bus
eagles in america s biggest sporting event, the super bowl. hello and welcome to the programme. it s a week since two earthquakes devastated parts of turkey and syria, in which so far, more than 33,000 people have died. the united nations says that figure could double. remarkably though, survivors are still being pulled from the rubble. united nations aid vehicles have now begun arriving in syria, but the head of the un s relief mission, says many people have a right to feel abandoned. part of the problem is that rebel groups still control parts of the north west, following years of civil war. 0ur middle east correspondent quentin sommerville and cameraman robbie wright have managed to gain access, and sent us their first report from inside the rebel held area. a border and a catastrophe shared, but in the earthquake s aftermath, syria and turkey couldn t be further apart. we ve just crossed into syria at the border crossing. there were about a dozen aid trucks, fuel tankers
translation: if the territorial integrity of our country is - threatened, then to defend russia and our people, we shall of course use all means at our disposal. i am not bluffing. in the past hour, russia has released 10 prisoners of war captured in ukraine in a deal brokered by saudi arabia. half are britons. also in the programme, new york s attorney general files a civil suit against donald trump and three of his children, accusing them of fraud. donald trump has condemned the lawsuit as a witch hunt . also this hour, the us federal reserve is expected to announce in the next few minutes another hike in interest rates, in a bid to bring down high inflation. we begin with the conflict in ukraine. russia s president, vladimir putin, has announced a partial military mobilisation, making an additional 300,000 personnel available to fight in ukraine from today. he said the call up was necessary to protect russian territory, including occupied areas that moscow is preparing
Has officially finished. The defense only called two witnesses. And yesterday, rested their case. Former President Trump did not testify in his own defense despite telling the press multiple times he wanted to. You testify in your trial. Yeah, i would testify absolutely. Its a scam. Its a scam. Are you going to testify . Yes. Will you testify . No he wont stop. He the gag is not to testify. Do you plan to testify in court . I probably so. I would like to. I mean i think so. I mean, theres a story of his life, who shocked me can nobodys shocked. It is a guy who said of course i am going to testify, you knew he was not going to testify for a couple reasons. One, he is just a walking perjury machine. Seriously . You got a new Ice Cream Machine that you say makes ice cream. The mcreamy by ninja. And creamy, yeah, well, he is a Ninja Perjury Machine right . You stand in front of it for a couple seconds. I will never look at the creamy the same way. It creates instant perjury and so we all k