today on 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 tobias' here in uganda is there where. they're aware because from the day i go to sort of. the dutch for me the good to know the been sent to me a message to call me i told him i would i wouldn't discuss them to issue a 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 that 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 judgement 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. are 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. it's obvious was to find children that can be adopted they wanted everything fast first because if if you get a child today spends in a home relate to months three months. is adopted that means they're spending less on this child. but if a child comes to us for

a year. it's much experience and they would say that to say we need children that can be adopted first it doesn't sound like they were very concerned about the children you know it sounds like they were concerned about the business. business you say you felt a lot of pressure did you worry that there would be consequences if you didn't find the children of course those certainly are closing. up clothes and if. if you're not bringing in more children we are closing so they would basically threaten to fire you. yes you didn't provide as many children as they wanted. there were allegations the barber had been trafficking children amongst other things eventually the police charged her with child neglect she disappeared for a time and now police they have files missing she denies all of the charges.

but barbour was just a local agent for journeys of the heart. to find out more i needed to talk to the agency's director in the u.s. it's lansky. after a lot of attempts to get hold of david sklansky by email and on the phone i have finally come to poland to see if i can find him in passing i think this might be his whom interests for this is a field i have to deal with. good morning david sklansky yes i want to talk to you about some families in uganda who say their children were adopted against their wishes i'd rather not. georgia tell me about this series solomon who is currently living in a government institution because his mother in uganda doesn't want him to be adopted her and she's given conflicting stories or two family wants to adopt i've

been trying to for some reason they don't seem to want to speak to me and my understanding is that on many occasions she has consented how is times as a mother need to object to an adoption reform a salesperson. question for me to start the process the family want to continue so you are just back to facilitate the american family. pretty much the family needed a change to meet us to. to try. to be there for them when they were right and. we will help them before we believe their child has made it medically very medically. we believe that it was very desperately believed her her story just as we understood the beginning solon's with initiated alter that changed to the north some judges were saying that there are exceptions for medical medically exigent exceptions such as salt and to be clear you don't have any regard for the change to the law that's not of concern to you but it's irrelevant when we

have not. encouraged families or listen to their interest to adopt from uganda since since that apart from the holocaust yeah we can't really talk to us so after being contacted by the person did you inform them about the change to the normal person a very. international adoption can be complicated but this family says it has been like a living nightmare every day they're without their son the hungers contacted senators ron wyden and jeff merkley they've told us that they're on our side they think that our story is viable philippa nor hunka been very public in that that's to get into the u.s. so i was surprised when they told me by email they didn't want to be interviewed by fault lines. according to the records philip was in court when the judge ruled the top of the didn't understand the implication of an adoption. so i wanted to know why the family was still pursuing it. we tried to talk to phillip punkers he was

getting into his car i want to talk to you about thomas and has son solomon for you understand this e-mail us at your back saying that we're not ok hammer tabitha says she doesn't want this adoption to happen. and the court records reflect that it depends on when you talk to him and it depends on which court records. ok i mean i've seen four sat score before hearings yeah what's your understanding of what her wishes are. i can't talk about this my time we for you know you're finishing attorney she told us not to speak with you not to speak with you more. and then just before this film went to add we did hear from the hunters in an e-mail they insisted again the top of the has repeatedly agreed to this adoption. they sent us photos of tabitha

signing documents to that effect. we don't know if the hungers will succeed in bringing solomon to america but we do know his case isn't isolated. more than one thousand six hundred ugandan children have been adopted to america since one thousand nine hundred ninety nine but it's hard to know how many of them were actually orphans and how many may have had parents who still wanted them and. for the past twelve years the council on accreditation has been regulating american adoption agencies. i wanted to know if journeys of the heart had been investigated over any of the issues raised in this film. so i talked to the c.e.o. richard kloberg. question the answer is i don't know is that not the type of thing that ought to have come up when it came to rear crediting journeys of the hawt. it would have if we had had access to that information yes and how would you get

access and they would have had access most likely from the united states government. post in gondor whether it's state department or homeland security their immigration and in the case of journeys of the heart you didn't get other information i just don't want to comment about any specific agency i asked him why his organization doesn't put more emphasis on investigating wrongdoing a.b.c.'s going about identifying whether that has happened is is not something that we are trained to do that we have the resources to do or or actually that we have in any way the capacity to do why if it's difficult to trust some of the institutions in countries like uganda which i think is a fairly well accepted fact why then would the department of state continue to allow into country to option i think you'd have to ask the united states department

of state i have asked myself that question again and again. and it is. it's a puzzle to me it's the penn state department refused to be interviewed for this story but in email they said they rely on their creditors to monitor and to see adoption agencies. it's been five years since tronson jennifer's children were taken to america. at best the adoption was deeply flawed in the process may have been fraudulent. the mother say they didn't even know it was happening. i'm going to ride it out to have another level of autonomy that would be. about but about two weeks long i want to i don't know which. is so hard. i'm going to. turn on the

norm on the phone. they've reported it as a crime to the police but now that the children are in america there's nothing anyone can do. the children belong to a different family now. i traced that family to their hometown. and the father agreed to be interviewed anonymously because the study hasn't told us children their biological families and looking for them very first thing we do it's all dark or americans attorney who finalize the adoption in the states with us if them for. if it's legally finalized what we need to do to confirm that things are going to change for the children and old us done in finalized what does it feel like to know that this kind of dispute over your children

so. devastating we have children to go to bed every night in our home whose parents in uganda wishing they were going to bed in their hood there are parents and you go on those who only see your children their children or their work electronically. she did use well intended concepts and turn them into a routine case like yourself who will try and end up being trolled perfectly into the family you know. what would you say another family from america considering adopting from uganda i would signal that's the short answer told because you're saying no for a lot more. do you think you will do for your agency application. once the child legally in america there's nothing anyone can do to get them back unless the adoptive family wants to return them. so it's possible that florence and

jennifer will never see their children again. there might still be hope for talbot then solomon. we are also the social worker amassing campagna if we could at least bring her to see her son he's now almost three and he's been separated from his mother for the majority of his life. i'm going to look at it that way. less than that but i'm. actually. now to be notarized in. the only way to think i need a fucking way a good man that i may get back now that i was. a king going in and going to have me down.

that i. saw him and didn't recognise his mother he seems to get when she approached show. she left him alone for a while to calm down. but it wasn't easy at the second time to put. her on her. own much to people. and i won't go as she can't be many of them in time and i'm naming a. woman as i'm a kid the what had happened to me and an animal. back

by. why. she has to leave him behind he isn't her child anymore. this legal tug of war has meant the solomon has lived in an institution for much of his life. in need and yet i. believe do you. feel when you do make your wing is was glad you needed you know to me that.

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a. space station for an emergency landing. and while the number of mexicans in the u.s. is slowly shrinking with more. u.s. media is reporting that a texas government has told the u.s. it has video and audio recordings that prove journalist jamal khashoggi was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul he was last seen ten days ago on the second of october walking into the building to get documentation for his upcoming marriage say the recordings show he was detained by a saudi security team which interrogated tortured and then killed him john hendren reports from washington d.c. . it may now be clear why turkish officials and u.s. officials on capitol hill are so certain that the saudi government is responsible

for the death of jamal khashoggi the washington post is reporting that the turkish government has told u.s. officials that it has audial in video recordings that prove the washington post columnist jamal khashoggi was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul according to that report a saudi security team detained in the consulate killed him and then dismembered his body according to u.s. officials who were briefed by turkish officials on those recordings and spoke to the washington post one of them says you can hear his voice in the voices of men speaking arabic you can hear how he was interrogated tortured and murdered that report goes on to say that a fifteen man saudi security team may have intended to capture cars shoji and bring him back to saudi arabia for whatever reason that did not happen but according to those recordings they show that after killing the security team went to the home of the saudi consul general where staff had been told to go home early the saudi

government appears to be paying something of a price and least in terms of international opinion there is a saudi investment conference coming up that is often called davos in the desert and a number of groups have pulled out of that the new york times has pulled out as a media sponsor the former chairman of america online steve case has pulled out an official has pulled out and a lobbying group called the harbor group that used to do lobbying for the saudi government in washington d.c. and was paid eighty thousand dollars a month for doing so has now dropped that governments business and finally richard branson the entrepreneur from the united kingdom had a couple of tourism projects with saudi arabia he also has dropped that business and all of them have cited the disappearance of jamal khashoggi. president donald trump as. apparent reluctant to take punitive measures against saudi arabia if it's found to be responsible for the disappearance and despite pressure from senators

from both parties he's opposing halting a multi-billion dollar deal with riyadh and investor reports from washington. the us president has repeatedly stopped short of blaming saudi arabia for the disappearance of jamal khashoggi what happened is a terrible thing assuming that happened i mean maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised but somehow i tend to doubt it and we take it very seriously and don't trump says he opposed any move by u.s. senators to block arms sales to saudi in retaliation i don't like the concept of stopping an investment of one hundred ten billion dollars into the united states. because you know they're going to do they're going to take that money and spend it or russia or china or someplace else so i think there are other ways if it turns out to be as bad as it might be there are certainly other ways of handling the situation but the president says u.s. investigators are now helping inquiries abroad with

a report jew in his words very soon but turkey's foreign minister on a trip to iraq says that's not the case but they do want sodhi help because the incident took place in saudi arabia's consulate we're working on this matter with the saudi authorities and they must cooperate with us on this matter we will announce the results at the end of the investigation a leading republican senator with access to the latest intelligence says he believes jamal khashoggi has been murdered everyone points to saudi arabia and it would appear that he's not a law about one democrat says the white house can't talk about what it would do to punish saudi arabia president trumps unwillingness to set out any consequences or even the threat of consequences essentially tells the saudis that were ok with this kind of conduct and behavior last year saudi arabia spent more than twenty seven million dollars to will be in washington a process. of seeking to influence politicians and cheap policy in its favor one washington more church says their money could help them with this saudi arabia is

one of the most influential lobbying and p.r. machines in washington d.c. but in this case the facts just speak louder than any lobbyist campaign contributions or any p.r. spokespersons talking points possibly could so what good does that do us no donald trump says he's expecting a port in the case he will come under pressure from senators to make it public when he receives it only seems reluctant to take action against the country he's built up as a friend in an ally he might be left with no choice but to act. washington. a member of the us senate foreign relations committee jeff flake says saudi arabia should end if the kingdom is involved. with the apparent brutal murder or murder of journalist jamal khashoggi some of the some of the real enemies of the people and enemies of freedom seemed to have taken license to eliminate a man that their regime viewed as

a threat mr president we need to know exactly what happened in that saudi consulate in turkey earlier this month put bluntly we cannot do business with the saudi government if they directed or were complicit in the murder of jamal khashoggi to free stacey is a former state department official who served in the obama administration he says the u.s. relationship is on thin ice. they're in a really tough position back at the state department because they have a president administration that has really moved into a special relationship with riyadh and this puts it all in the balance at the very least we're looking at a mild downgrading of the relationship holding at arm's length sort of scenario but because these allegations are so serious and if this was planned as it's alleged and the risk that has been taken here then we're really looking at a situation where the u.s. will be forced to probably make good on the magnitsky act and those weapons sales

are now in jeopardy and a few other things alternately this relationship will probably survive but for the short to medium term because of the apparent decisions we don't know yet for sure the apparent decisions made in riyadh are putting that now at risk the united nations human rights party has called on saudi arabia to end as 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 is not credible also chip ari has more at first glance this is just another day at school for these children in yemen subtle province but these are survivors of a horrific attack which took place last august as they were making their way to school on a bus forty of their friends died it's their first day back since the attack

happened. fourteen year old. try to hold back tears recalling the friends he lost in the attack by a saudi led military alliance airstrike on a market on august fourteenth we tell the enemy is the talk last night's blood won't be in volume and they will avenge them by getting an education we will avenge them by learning. thank god who saved me from this strike from the hands of this man described. as these survivors resumed their morning routines joining orning exercise drills in the sand yard or attending classes in wheelchairs other students shared their fears. said after we lost our dearest schoolmates and we're worried that the enemies will strike out skoal saudi arabia accepted the attack had killed civilians and that it was unjustified but the united nations committee for child rights says that is not enough now the problem and this is what we pointed out to them with this team is firstly it's set up by the coalition

nereids essentially investigating themselves secondly it's a compromised of members of from coalition countries. so it doesn't involve any any 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 as 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 still cause the day after her can michael made landfall as a consequence for storm will than nine hundred thousand homes are without poa the state's governor rick scott says the storm has left a trail of unimaginable destruction well and d.c. correspondent wendy woolfolk reports from pumice 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 war zone like a bomb had taken advice have 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 is 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.