in the known coalition countries the u.n. estimates at least one thousand two hundred children have been killed and nearly the same number injured in airstrikes since march of two thousand and fifteen twenty percent of all civilian deaths are children that's one in five civilians killed is a child nearly half a million children in yemen have dropped out of school since the start of the war bringing the total number of out of school children to two million according to unicef. all of those wounded continue to attend school without exception as long as it's ok for them to attend they come on crutches or wheelchairs but we've showed is that education for our children is paramount they attend in spite of their wounds and their fears. while the international community continues to increase pressure on saudi arabia the war in yemen goes on and the number of innocent victims continues to rise. al-jazeera. at least six

people have died in one of the strongest hearkens to ever hit the united states many coastal towns in florida are still cut off the day after dark and michael made landfall as a category landfall as a practical for storm well the nine hundred thousand homes are without power and is a cause one that wendy woolfolk reports from panacea in florida. the scope the magnitude of the damage here is incredible hopefully you can still see behind me that huge a houseboat that was tossed like a toy from one dock here to another at the height of that storm we have seen countless trees up rooted. homes that are removed from their foundations power lines down one person described those hardest hit areas like a laura zone like a bomb had taken a vama had gone off here unfortunately it's going to be some time before search and rescue teams can get into those areas and so many people still without power in all

of these states florida georgia alabama the carolinas up and of virginia they're without power at this point and the governor here in florida saying it's just not safe to try to come back and assess the damage and don't take away from the people who are trying to search and and rescue people who may be stranded don't take away from their efforts at this point safety is key and patience is needed throughout this entire region. indonesia says it could take up to two years to rebuild the sea which was devastated by the quake and tsunami two weeks ago five thousand soldiers are conducting a final search for survivors in the city of pallu the rescue effort was extended until friday at the request of residents were in two thousand people have been confirmed dead officials believe up to five thousand people still missing.

still ahead here on al-jazeera why many kenyans find themselves turning to traditional healers to help cure blindness. and i know that there remains a hostile michaelis still with us every part of north america has a satellite picture as it gradually made its way northward overland of course it's lost its energy source so it is disintegrating the winds easing but we're still seeing a lot of heavy rain you can see all the cloud feeding ahead of that well the way up into the eastern parts of canada that system eventually moves away though so by around lunchtime on friday should be over the atlantic and then for the eastern coast it will be a lot drier and brighter but as that will moves away we've got another system that's making its way in from the southwest that's making its way across some of the desert states the u.s. and then working its way eastward so do expect some flooding here as we head

through friday and into saturday but further towards the south we've also seen some heavy rains here particularly over the southern parts of mexico you can see the satellite picture picking out that cloud there really has been very wet and there's plenty more rain still to come as we head through friday and saturday too so they could be some flooding here was a for the east also what they hear from panama all the way up towards jamaica and further east so we do expect some shot downpours here to now the rain that's been over parts of brazil recently is just tracking a little bit further southwards now so for some of us in europe why in the northern parts of argentina expect some heavy rain i won't be that will be born salaries at sixty. he's outstrips supply and inference of a commodity. adoption is a compassionate act for children but much against the women. from

uganda tribune ited states investigates. should be. a good chunk of money between bank will trickle. of parents. from clients on zero zero. zero zero zero again you know what you've got is there has a mind of all top stories this hour american media is reporting that he has informed the guild west it has video and audio recordings proving that a saudi john this was killed inside the country's consulate in istanbul jamal khashoggi was not seen entering the building ten days ago. united nations human

rights body has called on saudi arabia to end strikes in yemen and prosecute those responsible for attacks on children. the child was also says the investigative mechanism set up by saudi arabia and the coalition to investigate incidents is not credible. and at least six people have died in one of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the united states many coastal towns in florida still cause all for more than nine hundred thousand homes are without power a day off the hurrican michael made landfall as a category four storm it's now been downgraded to a tropical storm. trade tensions between the u.s. and china are on the agenda of the i.m.f. and world bank annual meetings in bali i.m.f. chief christine the god is warning against a trade war. even though trade corp has driven an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity over the last seventy plus years. today it faces

a backlash partly because too many people have been left out. to meet that discoloration of current trade tensions could reduce global g.d.p. by almost one percent over the next two years. clearly we need to deescalate these disputes but just as clearly we need to reform the global trade system to make it even better fairer stronger. mutually beneficial to all nations and all people and fit for the future. but that means fixing the system together not tearing it apart. and as a former u.s. ambassador to the asian development bank and he says there's a chance the current tensions between china and the us could produce a positive outcome. the big stories the big trends we're hearing about here at the

world back i am at meetings clearly the big one is still growing but perhaps lowering a growth rate for the global economy and one of the factors is very much the growing tensions between the united states are trying to as you noted the two largest economies in the world you know trade drives growth but at the same time despite the worries a lot of skepticism of what's going on in that relationship you know i'm an optimist and i feel if this leads to a meeting or balanced sustainable relationship between the two largest economies that was that's a good thing from over with there it's a fast paced slow pace you know pace of growth there's always a forty going to be losers as well as winners and so the challenge when we think about what the world bank with the i.m.f. my old gives you at the age of a bank with these institutions are doing their driving growth but i hope they can also focus on addressing the issue of inequality no not all people will benefit at the same time so long and again as we think about the adjusting world that we live in what president trump is clearly done is disrupted what had been the story of these last two decades i'd say which has been the steady growth of china clearly

china to its great credit has done hundreds of millions of people out of poverty but is it china has grown up it too has to grow up its relationship to interaction with the rest of the world. russia has opened a criminal investigation after a rocket bound for the international space station failed shortly after takeoff the two man crew an american astronaut and russian cosmonaut survived up to making an emergency landing in kazakhstan talons has will from moscow. with the traditional wave of departing spacemen make hay and alexei of gin in said goodbye to worth they'd be back sooner than they thought since the demise of masses space shuttle program russia's so you system is currently the only way for people to get up to the international space station the russian and the american to begin one hundred and eighty seven days in orbit liftoff but first they have to get there the launch seemed to go well initially the rocket lifted off into the cloudless skies above

baikonur kazakstan but one hundred nineteen seconds into the journey there was a catastrophic malfunction here the soyuz making its way into space inside the capsule video shows the two men being shaken about before the feed is cut to a computer graphic for ourselves we can live in the florida mental point five seven . the failure of the bush hearing there that there has been an issue with the booster and we're standing by for information the men and their capsule were now in a so-called ballistic re-entry parachuting back to worth they landed in the wide kazakstan step six hundred kilometers away from the launch site the rescue teams found them there helps them out of their confinement and into waiting helicopters but there's. a little bit of this incident requires a more thorough investigation including visits to the manufacturing facilities the

accident occurred in iraq at that had led the incident for history this is very bad news on the other hand the emergency rescue system book excellently and this is good news. in fact two investigations are now underway one looking into what happened and another criminal one to assess whether there was any foul play or negligence involved in the rockets construction rush or is also grounding manned soyuz flights the work course of international space missions until more is known about this catastrophe. we'll have knock on impacts of course the crew currently orbiting on board the international space station will have to stay there a while longer and officials will be looking at whether resupply rocket flights can actually take place but thankfully there was no loss of life in a launch failure that could so easily have been fatal really chalons zero mosque or . the u.s. military is grounding its most expensive war planes following

a crash last month it's believed that engine problems caused an f. thirty five fighter jet to malfunction joining a training flight in south carolina engine checks on the plane are under way world wives ukrainian president petro poroshenko has welcomed a decision that gives his country's christian orthodox church full independence from russia a service to mark the historic move was held in the capsule here the first is that by the ecumenical patriarch of is in istanbul a spiritual leader of three hundred million orthodox believers a wild wide under simmons reports from kiev they're all of one faith but there's nothing spiritual about what's going on beyond the silence of prayer and thought leaders of the orthodox churches here are split they're either pro russian or they want to dependence on the break from being answerable to the orthodox patriarchy in moscow we as

a church we try to be independent from moscow not because we don't like russia or so or something else but we see how a russian empire through centuries use also books church in our land as a tool of imperial polis. in this sacred place for the faithful the archbishop's words sound political that's because. that's a potent mix in ukraine of religion and power politics you only have to look around the corner to see the thought of messaging that's going on violence and death. more than one hundred protesters were killed in the my down uprising of twenty fourteen the lead to the fall of pro russian president viktor yushchenko v h then came russia's annexation of crimea and the conflict with pro russian separatists in

eastern ukraine now in its fifth year ukraine's president petro poroshenko stands accused by russia of pushing for orthodox church independence from ball sco to boost his chances of winning another term in elections next year in moscow the patriarch eight sees itself as the mother church and it says independence for ukraine will be a catastrophe. it's an artificial establishment and every time politicians meddle in church affairs it leads to pain suffering and often bloodshed because religious conflicts supported by politicians are the most violent and tragic we know that from history and from what is happening in the middle east. here in ukraine not all orthodox church members are in agreement with what's happening. it doesn't matter whether it's a russian or ukrainian church it's hard to see how believe

a stat conflicts such as this one by the who the church should report to. as a state ukraine needs faith as a pellet to hold on to said that we understand who we can be in the future. what of the future ukraine's president is declaring a victory while russia warns of religious conflicts and drew simmons. and egyptian military court has sentenced seventeen people to death in attacks on coptic christian churches last year twin bombings in alexandria and tanta in april two thousand and seventeen left at least forty five people dead more than one hundred thirty seriously injured eisel claimed responsibility since nationals as those who organize the attack should be held accountable but it's criticized the death sentences by military courts. at least half a million people in kenya blind or visually impaired some because of avoidable circumstances but treatment is expensive so many kenyans turn traditional healers

as conference of sawyer reports from the home of a. eunice one boy has been waiting for this cornea transplant for the last five years she was going blind cornea the transparent out of most part of the eye has over the years been badly damaged the doctors can only operate on one eye and put her on another waiting list because a shot of the needed t. shoes for the other eye she has a condition known as character conus a leading cause of blindness in kenya. to good of my studies completely. half a million kenyans are partially or totally blind twenty percent of them because of corneal problems these hospitals i beg gets fewer than two hundred corneas a year local culture makes organ donations difficult here and majority of the cornea we've been getting is for us. between five hundred to one

thousand dollars. very very good. because. that means people like tara in a village in western kenya can hardly afford the thousands of dollars needed for the procedure she to surface from your condition she's been seeing a traditional. cough for three months now this confident that a concoction of how absurd plied once a week will help the patient get her sight back. she's had this problem for five years she's visited the hospital but the problem will go away my harms will clear the loneliness and how i. she swears by the leaves shoots and traps she's been using for decades after inheriting the healing practice from her mother and grandmother acord says she gets her plants in her neighborhood after they are revealed too hot in dreams she also tells us that what she's boiling now treats

most immense and this is specifically for the eyes. traditional healers are recognized in the country's health care system they're important mostly in drought areas suffering communities with few hospitals or people who cannot afford medical care. clinic. after. by. the last so they come when their eyes that are now in the late stages. pays how he less than ten dollars for the treatment she gets but without the cornea transplant. catherine saw. western kenya. there without zero these are our top stories american media is reporting that

turkey has informed the u.s. it has video and audio recordings that prove a saudi journalist was killed inside his country's consulate in istanbul jamal khashoggi was last seen entering that building ten days ago. a united nations human rights body has called on saudi arabia to end strikes in yemen and prosecute those responsible for attacks on children here in committee for child rights also says the investigative mechanism set up by saudi arabia and the coalition to investigate incidents is not credible. at least six people have died in one of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the united states many coastal towns in florida are still cut off from all the nine hundred thousand homes are without power a day after hurrican michel made landfall as a category four storm. indonesia says it could take up to two years to rebuild the island of soloway sea after it was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami two weeks ago firefighters and soldiers are conducting a final search for survivors in the city of the rescue effort has been extended

until friday at the request of residents more than two thousand people have been confirmed dead officials believe up to five thousand people are still missing russia is suspending manned. space station until the cause of a rocket failure is investigated and there is live. to the international space station an american astronauts and russian cosmonaut were forced to make what's called a ballistic entry by parachute when the russian soyuz rocket suffered a catastrophic malfunction off to blast off and then the gyptian military court has sentenced seventeen people to death for involvement in attacks on coptic christian churches last year twenty bombings in alexandria and tom to april twenty seventh team because it is forty five people and seriously injured more than one hundred thirty eisel claimed responsibility. as those organized organized the attack should

be held accountable this criticized the death sentences there's i had lines of back with more news after fault lines stay with us. in the wild west previously where the average person couldn't actually tell if a post had been set on or in some way does this update you now have the kind of support that he needs we bring you the stories the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. do you. feel any place florence genova see their children now is in. five years ago they sent them to stay with their system r.e.m. but when they returned to collect their children had disappeared. marian claimed she put them in a boarding school but in fact the children had been taken to america legally adopted without their mother's knowledge. what do you think about the fact that

a family can come from another country and become the legal parents of somebody else's child to be sure you know who the one and i meant to carmen is and i say go on and i got on that what you wanted after all around was it a trial of a run. merriam's that she'd been approached by an agent who promised the children a free education but that promise turned out to be a conduit for international adoption and by the time the sisters even suspected something was wrong the children were no longer bez if you had a chance to speak to the family that your children are now living with what would you say to them. you don't get to meet us in known. quantities of a tag florence and jennifer among countless families in uganda whose children have been lost to international adoption and to leave. this industry isn't being driven by a supply of oftens in need of homes is being driven by demand from america but brown

we need more children and we need to then we have families waiting here we need children we need to do this woman work for an american adoption agency it was her job to find children to be adopted her them these children and not in a market. for cell. phone lines teamed up with the investigative fun to explore the markets in uganda's children asking how this could happen who's responsible and if there's any hope these mothers will see their children again. and i'm going to

a young. man add to my. top of the lives no remote village about five hours by car from uganda's capital kampala. six years ago her son michael was adopted by an american family he'd been ill and she couldn't afford his treatment so when some people came to her community saying they wanted to help needy children she thought her son was lucky to be chosen. to work. and. what happened to tab is incredibly complicated. with the help of an interpreter i tried to get the full story even now six years later she seems confused about what

she agreed to. i had you on me. going at the ending at the. top out of the laurel. he's. able to lean out that to me looking at the and. so she said that they committed that in fact court records show top as they consented to the adoption of michael legally speaking she's no longer his mother. laura and philip honker are adoptive parents to michael and henry now he lives in portland oregon with this family philip and nora hunger. this is a local news report filmed last year with michael and another boy their doctors from china. three years after they took michael to america tabitha gave birth to another boy solomon. it's pizza night at the hunger home but something is missing when they heard the top of that had another baby and was again in need of help the

hardest and money for solomon's calf. they wanted to adopt him too and sent an agent to actually talk with a. hunger. yet they added the meal. we see the. now anatomy and. eventually the hunger came to uganda and tabata says she was called to a meeting in camp parlor. she said she felt ill while she was there and had a dizzy spell it was then she says the woman at the meeting took solomon from her and gave him to laura hunka. we asked the hungus to confirm what happened at that meeting but they didn't respond to the question however they didn't see this the top of the has repeatedly agreed to the adoption and that she signed documents to that effect. just by this tabitha told us that she had never wanted to give us our way.

and when you were doing at the dimia was. king. and she could see them was holidaying hatch and then she asked what about my chair how do i get my share then they said they told adam was on would bring the child to our a man and. that's the day he was taken from her. top of the so she was still breastfeeding when solomon was taken away from her. she told us she felt so distraught the next morning she wanted to take her own life. that was more than two years ago and the last time top of that had her son. to find out more i went to the family court in town pala.

they keep the chaotic archive containing thousands of files one for every child adopted including solomon. in his i found information about tabitha and the hunt the family as well as their american adoption agency journeys at the heart. the court records show that before hearings before solomon's adoption was approved. at the first two the judge adjourned saying top of the didn't understand what adoption was or wanted for solomon. but at the third hearing the records they tab of the returned to court and agreed to the adoption. of the fourth hearing the judge granted the adoption application and solomon became the hungers legal child. was it over your intention to sign away harmon and guardianship of solomon to a different family.

but an american family can take a ugandan child back home with them without a visa to the u.s. and eighteen months later solomon still hadn't been approved the family on able to bring him home with them the hunters became frustrated. this is video taken by the orphanage last november this is been excruciating on our family the hunger say the ugandan high court approved the adoption more than a year ago but when they went to the u.s. embassy to get solomons visa approved they were stonewalled they have not given us any reasons why that application has not been accepted. now do you think the hold up. had like to know the answer to that is well honestly. the us embassy refused to comment but again solomons court fall was used. when we talked to tabitha told me she'd been called to a meeting at the american embassy in kampala the embassy staff it aust her she'd

wanted solomon to be adopted. her claim that she told the official she was against the adoption is given some credence by documents in the file. it's the letter written by the u.s. embassy to the ugandan court describing solomon's adoption as problematic. only need the help we need the united states government to approve his application despite top of his insistence that she didn't want her child to be adopted solomon wasn't returned to her she told us she hadn't even been allowed to see him where a song now. but. after a lot of searching i found a social worker who knew. the. sterile

ones in charge of child welfare in uganda when she heard about top of the story she moved from the childminder being paid by the hungers to a government babies home there is one i took that action as the office of responsible for children was because i received a compliment from them and she was insisting that she didn't want the child or when they see davis to be for me to move in and see where the child is phyllis how much more information do you need i mean it's been over a year to tell a lost custody of solomon is more than a year. how many times you off the passengers they know before you or the process in i cannot say how many attains you know it counseling is a process. and these red one. stellar was also behind a change to ugandan law which means that foreign families wanting to adopt now have to foster a child in uganda for at least one year. that law took effect in two thousand and

sixteen the year before solomon was adopted. wanted to prevent just wish when we have people just flying today and get. on with the children the next two weeks that's what we wanted to avoid do you think a family in america who illegally parents the story would have any idea of the turbulence here in uganda where. now we have because from the day i go to. the death funny the good to know that you've been sent to me a message to call me i told him i would i wouldn't discuss them to form but i would exchange e-mails and they didn't do that. but they've been communicating through their lawyers. but how could the hungers and let the legal obligation to foster solomon when they hadn't spent the required year in uganda. the judge in the case

moses maci decided that since the hunkies had been paying someone to look after solomon they had in effect constructively fostered him. i wanted to ask judgment chibi why he had come to this conclusion but he declined to be interviewed. i also want to do know more about the american agency behind solomon michaels adoptions. i tracked down a former agent of baz barbara and about a camera she told me she'd spent three years working for journeys of the heart she was arrested in two thousand and fourteen and soon after that parted ways we met at an undisclosed location. so what was the involvement of journeys of the heart. to provide their financial support and then i would provide this obvious. sadness was to find children that can be adopted they wanted everything fast first.