i m 55-year-olds old and i have a wife with four daughters and a son. i bought her for myself. ly wait until she becomes older. reporter: cnn was granted rare access to film the final payment and handover. the buyer asked for it toik place at a house in his village and not the camp for security reasons. he paid a total of $200,000 afghani, just over $2,000 u.s. in land, sheep and cash. this is your bride, please take care of her, said her father. of course i will take care of her, replies the man. reporter: as he drags her away, she wohimpers. moments later she digs her heels into the dirt. refusing to go. but it is hopeless. cnn s story caused an outcry. a distressing story out of
do? her buyer who lived in a nearby village confirmed he was taking the 9-year-old as his second wife. i am 55 years old. i have a wife with four daughters and a son. i bought her for myself. i will wait until she becomes older. reporter: cnn was granted rare access to film the final payment and handover. the buyer asked for it to take place at a house in his village and not the camp for security reasons. he paid a total of 200,000 afghanees just over $2,000 u.s. for parwana in land, sheep, and cash. this is your bride. please take care of her says her father. of course i will take care of her replies the man. as he drags her away, she whimpers. moments later, she digs her heels into the dirt, refusing to
and being questioned by detectives, and cnn s ivan watson is following this story. he is live for us. ivan, incredible. go it but it s also harrowing to think about what this girl has been through. reporter: harrowing. man, brianna, it s rare we get to report a story with a happy ending. this girl went missing on the 16th. her family went on a camping site. they got up in the morning and their tent had been unzipped. and 4-year-old cleo smith was missing along with her sleeping bag. this triggered a nationwide manhunt with about 140 police officers, volunteers from all across the country. the state government issuing a $750,000 u.s. reward for information. and as you mentioned, before
lifeline to many colleges and universities. chinese students pay an estimated $16 billion in living fees and tuition expenses a year. nearly the same amount the u.s. spent developing the covid vaccine. do you pay full tuition? i have to pay full tuition, which is like 60, $60,000 u.s. per year. we re coming here for the opportunities. so the cause can be covered in the long run. reporter: but there s more than just money changing hands. chinese students create an exchange of culture and ideas that benefit both countries. reporter: you want the best and the brightest to come to the united states to enrich the intellectual discussion on this campus and across the country. reporter: clay douby is the director of the u.s./china institute at usc. he says the relations between the countries are at its lowest point in half a century. reporter: that s what makes it especially important for us to foster this person-to-person discussion. reporter: ua yang has seen the deterioration
a limited way. the decision coming after japan s prime minister declared a fourth state of emergency in the capital due to a spike in covid cases. cnn s will ripley joins me now live from tokyo. so saying no to fans at events, a new state of emergency. it s all about numbers heading the wrong way, right? reporter: yeah. they needed the number of cases to go down in order for the number of spectators potentially to be at, well, capped at 50% or up to 10,000. that was the plan. that s why tokyo went after its third state of emergency into a quasi state of emergency that would have made it feasible for olympics organizers to at least get some people, some ticket holders who had entered a lottery just to spend in some cases more than $1,000 u.s. to get these seats. and now that s all out the window because this fourth state of emergency, which goes into effect on monday, requires that restaurants stop serving alcohol. people are encouraged to work