from alzheimer's to cancer. tickets for the oasis reunion tour go on sale. and thousands of fans face and thousands of fans face lengthy waits with official lengthy waits with official websites quickly overloaded. websites quickly overloaded. one provider, ticketmaster, one provider, ticketmaster, insists the queue is moving. insists the queue is moving. now on bbc news... now on bbc news... georgia's stolen children. georgia's stolen children. my mother hasn't my mother hasn't given birth in 1984. given birth in 1984. this birth certificate this birth certificate is not real. is not real. i am helping parents i am helping parents to find their children to find their children who were stolen and sold who were stolen and sold by the georgian doctors. by the georgian doctors. what the hell is happening? what the hell is happening? who is that girl? who is that girl? georgia is coming to terms georgia is coming to terms with a black market adoption 00:00:59,626 --> 4294966103:13:29,429 scandal spanning decades. 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. itexted herfirst, "how long i have been looking for you". ..many are still fighting forjustice.

i texted herfirst, "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? or — 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? i'm like, "who? "what. . .what sister?" "what. . .what sister?" amy and ano were not the only amy and ano were not the only

ones making strange discoveries ones making strange discoveries about their past. about their past. so, this is my one birth so, this is my one birth certificate and it's written certificate and it's written that i was born that i was born on tenth august. on tenth august. and this is new one, and this is new one, which i took in 2017, which i took in 2017, and it's written that and it's written that i was born in tenth i was born in tenth october in 1984. october in 1984. unfortunately, none of them unfortunately, none of them are the real dates and i don't are the real dates and i don't exactly know when i was born. exactly know when i was born. i am tamuna, i am journalist, i am tamuna, i am journalist, and i am the first one and i am the first one who started talking who started talking about baby—selling scandal in about baby—selling scandal in georgia. georgia. in 2016, my mother in 2016, my mother died unexpectedly. died unexpectedly.

she was only 64 years old. she was only 64 years old. one month later, i wasjust looking in her documents, just organising some stuff, and ifound my birth certificate where it was written my name, my surname, my parents' names and surnames. but it was said that my birth date was not the day which i knew. tamuna went to the archives to find a document that in georgia every woman receives after giving birth, but no document existed. her mother hadn't given birth to her at all, and it meant she must be adopted. when her family refused to talk about it, tamuna set about finding answers. i think that this is a mission

which was made for me,

she suspects her mother was involved in other cases of baby—trafficking, working with corrupt doctors and criminals. nato�*s mother said not everyone was involved, but many people were.

black market adoptions and child—trafficking were rife in georgia between the 19705 until the mid—2000s, when adoption became more regulated. lia believes the practice thrived because of a culture of shame around adoption, which pushed it underground and a lack of questioning authority under communism. later, after georgia gained independence from the soviet union, a period of turbulence followed which allowed criminals to cash in on a more organised system of illegal adoption.

it's now known that no hospital cemeteries ever existed and that mothers were lied to. it's believed tens of thousands of babies were stolen, but with no exact records, the true number is unknown.

even today, no—one knows for sure exactly how connected these criminal gangs were or to what heights the corruption reached. tamuna believes the very top. international child—trafficking in georgia has been investigated by authorities twice since 2003. some people did face jail time, but they were just the tip of the iceberg. there are reports that some of those who were accused of being involved are still working in hospitals today. with tamuna's facebook group gaining momentum, in september 2022, the georgian government launched a new formal investigation into child—trafficking. led by the ministry of internal affairs, it set out to investigate hospital employees and gather

evidence. amy and ano now have serious questions to ask theirfamilies. my mother. god! and i'm like, "what i'm going to say to her?" and for the first time, i hear my mother cry. and i'm like, "ok, you're making me cry, "so i can't... no, i can't talk to you." she said that..."|�*m sorry." and i'm saying, "you're sorry for what?" "i didn't know that you had a twin sister." my whole life is a lie. that was the first feeling i had.

the twins posted their story on the group. within a few days, they received a message from a woman called anna. she said, "i also have twin sisters "and i am looking for them." anna's mother had been told her twins had died in 2002, but now she had doubts. then we decided to get a dna test, and it turns out that the woman, who lives in germany, is our biological mother. as you see, there are almost 36,000 posts and comments in two months in our group. and you can also see the views

of the group and there are more than five million views. i am searching now has over 230,000 members. i get messages every day with new leads. they are from all over georgia and even people based abroad. tamuna's research has found that the trafficking of babies was happening right across georgia. she's found multiple allegations against at least 20 hospitals, many in rural areas. tamuna is meeting a family in kvareli, a small town in the east of the country. she wants to hear what happened to irina more than 40 years ago.

a few days after giving birth, irina was told her twins had died. she was instructed by doctors to find something to bury them in. unable to access a plot for the children in a cemetery, the family buried the suitcase in their garden. it remained there for more than 40 years. the family were so suspicious that they decided to dig up the suitcase.

more than a year after the investigation was launched, very little seems to have happened. with frustration building, tamuna has gathered women from the group to meet lia and discuss legal action.

meanwhile, the twins are grappling with whether to meet their biological mother in germany. this is my biggest moment in my life. i want answers to my questions. adopted children have that feeling that everything, it's her fault. you know? it's our fault. it's their fault. no, it's not. and it's not but we felt like that. we all our life thinking about it, "oh, it's my fault." it's my fault. because i wasn't enough. and you don't... and you don't know why.

i just want answers. i can't change the past. i can change my future. 0h! they cry 0h.

during their chat, amy and ano's mother said that after giving birth, she was unconscious and it was only when she woke up that she was told her twins had died. i felt something like i've never felt. i don't know what that's called, but, yeah, i'm shaking. ijust want to comfort her because i know what she's feeling.

amy and ano are among the few to have reconnected with family.

elsewhere, irina and nino may have had a breakthrough in their search. they found someone who lives nearby who they think could be one of the twins. they are awaiting dna test results. nato often thinks about finding herfamily. lia's group legal battle continues to gather pace. they plan to begin legal action this year. meanwhile, tamuna continues to search for her biological family. she is due to meet the president of georgia to lobby on behalf of all the victims. the saddest part of my story is that i have reunited hundreds of families and i cannot find my biological pa rents. but i will. i'm sure i will.

i will find them. hello there. it's been a glorious sunny start for most of us to begin this weekend. however, it's not the same for everyone. we do have more cloud around southern and eastern areas, and through the weekend i think we'll start to see increasing chance of heavy showers and thunderstorms, particularly across england and wales. but it's been a glorious start today, like i mentioned. here's a beautiful scene from conwy in north wales. big contrast, though, to cloudier, leaden skies across east anglia and the south east. it's because we're drawing this cloud off the north sea on a fairly brisk easterly breeze across southern areas, whereas further north, we're into the sunny blue skies.

so for the rest of the day it does look like it's going to stay rather cloudy across the south and southeast. maybe a few showers starting to push up from the near continent later in the day. but a warm one to come further north with all the sunshine, low 20s for glasgow. low 20s as well for parts of wales, northwest england. now, through this evening and overnight the cloud starts to drift northwards, start to import some humid air from southern areas and that will increase the chance of some heavy showers or thunderstorm — hit and miss showers, not everyone will get them. but you can see we're importing this warm and humid air from the near continent. so quite a muggy night to come for england and wales to start. sunday could be no lower than 16 or 17 degrees in the southeast. so we start off with a bit more cloud across england and wales for sunday. best of the sunshine towards the north west. but even here the cloud tends to build. there's a chance of seeing some heavy showers and thunderstorms becoming more widespread across parts of england and wales. hit and miss showers, not everyone will get one and there's a question mark to the extent of these showers could be a bit further north, could be a bit further westwards.

a warm and humid day to come across central and southern and eastern areas, a little bit fresher further north. for monday, we have a weak area of low pressure across the country. a couple of weather fronts that will enhance shower and thunderstorm activity, could see some showers and storms across eastern areas. another one in towards the west. again, a bit of a question mark, some uncertainty to the details of monday. have to stay tuned, but could see some sunny spells across the southeast corner and again across the far east, we could be into the high 20s. so again, quite warm here, but generally high teens, low 20s elsewhere with more cloud and showers around. i think as we run through the week, though, conditions begin to improve. we lose the shower and thunderstorms early on, and then high pressure might build back in for the end of the week to settle things down with increasing amounts of sunshine. but stay tuned.

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