Who is that girl? georgia is coming to terms with a black market adoption scandal spanning decades. It s believed tens of thousands of babies were stolen, some as recently as the mid 20005. And while some are connecting with lost family. . . I texted herfirst, i have been looking for you. . . Many are still fighting forjustice. I texted her first, i have been looking for you. And she said, me too. I m coming up from the escalator and it s like my heart is like it was pumping so much blood! i was in shock. Am i looking in the mirror? am i in the train? 0r could someone slap me in the face? exact same person, exact same faces, exact same voice, exact same thoughts. I m like, i need to hug you. She doesn t like hugs but she did hug me. Then, we took a couple of pictures and i posted it on facebook. Then, my mother s friend texted me. Did you find your sister? i m like, who? what. . . What sister? amy and ano were not the only ones making strange discoveries about their past. So, this
On tracks throughout europe, the cars competed in disciplines including autocross, racing through formula 1 like twists and turns as fast as possible. . . . . An endurance trial through more than 20km of track to push the limits of battery management. . . . . A test of grip and downforce by. . . Basically going round in a circle as fast as possible and then there s acceleration. It s a drag race, basically, and it s this last challenge that one team, amz racing, absolutely blasted last year, going from 0 to 100km an hour in. . . Well, i ll let you know a bit later. Amz includes students from lucerne university of applied sciences and arts and eth zurich, and i dropped in on the team s swiss hq. And up here is the electronics department at amz racing. We re going to meet lara. Not that lara. For one car to excel at all of these events, it not only has to have a powerful motor, but also computers have to control the traction and fine tune the speed of each wheel individually, and someh
Brands barbie, fisher price and moi, that is mattel to find out how his company s fortunes are being revived. Wherever you are joining around the world, once again hello and welcome to the programme. It is a billion dollar industry driven by creativity and innovation with a global reach and a diverse market. The toy industry is forecast to reach $302 billion in sales by 2030 and that estimate is at the conservative end of the scale. But falling birth rates and some of the highest inflation rates we have seen in decades have created challenging conditions for manufacturers and retailers and signal more tough times to come. While the covid pandemic boosted sales of toys and games temporarily, big name companies reported sales have started to slip back once again. Let s look at some of those numbers. Local toy sales reached $108. 7 billion in 2023, a 2% drop compared to 2022 with toy companies calling it a normalisation process after that exceptional growth linked to the pandemic. But acr
On the beaches, we found something secret hidden beneath the sands. I m meeting eddi pitcher, a writer and travel journalist who specialises in uncovering hidden places. Eddi, where are you taking me today? so we are taking the wild way to bolonia beach, and we can see that this is the way because we ve got. . . Knotted beach grass here. There are no signs. So it s. . . I said it was a wild way. I m definitely glad that eddi s here to show me the way on this one. Wow, look at this. There you go. So you ve got your desert dune there. Wow! this is the bolonia sand dune, one of spain s largest sand dunes, standing at over 30m high and 200m wide, all concealed within the estrecho nature park. Probably the best way to think about this coastline, which is endlessly shifting down the centuries, is as a living sand dune. And now, with climate change, the winds are getting stronger and pushing with them these dunes. So they re really moving? yeah, exactly. These dunes are being battered by hurr