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in august 1996, ken and ruth pohler, an american couple from michigan, arrived in china. in the town of suzhou, they adopted a baby girl from a social welfare home. they called her kati. hey! doesn't she look like a picture! can you wear shorts in china, when you're teaching? i mean my knees are pretty hot, so i mean... yeah, no i can. i think trans—racial adoptions makes it super obvious that you're different, from day one. she was just beautiful. but seeing that picture and then seeing her in life was, yeah. very happy, very emotional, just tears running down my face. i grew up in a place that was very

white, very caucasian. but for me, my community was so close and so tight. i saw myself as different but i was actually really accepted. but then things started to become different when i went outside that community, and everyone knew me and knew my story, and they expected me to act certain ways. kati was probably five years old. and she came up to me, we were at a meeting at church, she asked me whose tummy she came from. "did i come from your tummy?" and i said, "no, you didn't come from my tummy. you came from a lady's tummy in china. but you came from my heart. you were born of my heart." and she was off running, doing something else. that was all she needed to know, and she was happy with that.

looking back at it now, i thought the right thing to do was to not really pursue that and think about that. i guess part of the reason i didn't pursue it more too was because i knew, especially from my mom, i think it was hard to her. when ken and ruth received their baby, they were given an unexpected piece of paper. it was a note, and it was written by kati's birth parents. for the last 15 years, lida and fenxiang have been visiting the broken bridge in hangzhou, hoping to find their daughter. their story was picked up by the chinese media. finally, through a contact, lida and fenxiang discovered

their daughter had been adopted by a couple in the united states. but kati's adopted family didn't think a reunion would be in her best interests. until now. i guess meeting my birth parents isn't something that i really had a strong desire to do. but i don't think i ever considered it as something that could ever even happen. so now that is happening, it's a lot to think about. the dominating emotion is probably excitement. we should have brought our bags to make us look better! kati's adopted parents told her about the full story of her adoption when she turned 20. she is mature and she made that

decision, and so we're here to back her completely, and do whatever we can to make sure that it's a good experience for her, and that her trip over there will be a blessing to her birth parents. how are you? i'm good. how are you? we were just wondering where you were! in a way i see it as a loss, but also a gain. it's just a change in the relationship. we pray for kati as she gets ready to go on a journey. that the planned meeting will go well and that she'll have safe travel to china, and to return her safely back to us. after finding out about her birth parents, kati decided to fly to china, to meet them herself. i think my biggest fear in meeting my biological

family is that somehow i will disappoint them. i mean, in a lot of ways, obviously they feel like they've let me down. but i also know how much pain they have gone through. wow, it's so large. yeah, i see that! ahead of the big reunion, kati spent some time getting to know the country of her birth. forthe meeting, i'mjust going to try and take it as it comes, and try to be in the moment as much as possible, and make the best

decision to me at that time. this is kati. hi, hello. the big day has arrived. kati and her birth family are travelling to the broken bridge where they will meet for the first time. i'm excited. i feel pretty ready. i feel like there's been a lot of build—up to this point, so i feel like — feel like it's time. i'm generally not a very symbolic person. like, i think it's nice, but i'm not really one for, like, sentimental things. but it was my biological‘s father's idea. i respect that, and i do see the beauty in it. so yes, i think meeting on the bridge is definitely the logical choice, and i think it will be good.

the legendary broken bridge in hangzhou is famous in chinese folklore. it is the inspiration for an ancient love story, and millions of people visit each year. it was a beautiful afternoon. and so it was definitely kind of surreal, walking across the bridge, just looking at the people, like, this is it. i'm only going to do this once. you only meet your biological family once in your life. i don't get super emotional in those types of situations, but for my birth mother, i think she was just... she was actually really sad, in a lot of ways. she just kind of held me and sobbed for about a half—hour. and that's another time when i was like, you know what? i'm glad i can't speak chinese, because i have no idea what i would say otherwise. so after the meeting, like,

my biologicalfamily really wanted me to, like, stay with them for the night. and i was like, no. i've met so many people today, i haven't been sleeping a lot, so i just want some time to myself. so i think — yeah, that first night, yes, i didn't stay with them. and then after that, the day after that, i hung out with, yeah, my parents. her biological parents have brought kati back to theirfamily home in hangzhou. i'm kati's biological mother. hello. thank you very much, for taking care of kati.

we're also very thankful to you for giving her to us. that night, they skype—chat with kati's adoptive family in the us. it is the first time the two families have met. can you tell us a little bit how the bridge reunion went? i haven't really tried to talk about it yet, because i don't know how to talk about it well. because... 0k. i don't know how to capture what it was. i don't know. we love her dearly, and she knows that, and we haven't lost anything today. we haven't lost anything at all. we're just happy for her. i'm just happy that she's come to this point. ijust hope there's a sense of peace and contentment with her, and that, you know, if it means developing a relationship with them,

that that's ok, because that's good. one thing i realised, going on this trip — that i almost did it more for my biological family than myself. obviously it was both, but in a lot of ways, it was a lot more meaningful to them. just because it was a lot more traumatic for them, and they've been living with a lot more emotion about it for so many years. but for me, also, it was good. it was — yeah, it was good in different ways, i think, for us. but, for me, it was definitely fulfilling. what is it?

chicken wing. sure. translator: my oldest daughter, she is already 25, but she never went into the kitchen once. i'll teach her how to cook. i guess having two sets of parents, it's — it's hard, because it's a lot of family ties, and that's — like, how much to communicate, and i'm not really good at communicating with my family in the first place, and i have a whole another family. the next morning, kati's dad wants to take her to the place where he abandoned her.

but it is difficult to find the exact spot. he reallyjust wanted my forgiveness, which is... it was just really interesting, because, like, i understand from him why he needed forgiveness. but, for me, i didn't feel like i needed to forgive them for anything. like, from my perspective, i understand their situation, as much as i think i can. and, like — yeah, they were stuck. they were stuck in a system that was so broken. six hours from hangzhou is this town. it is the original family home, and it is where kati's grandmother lives. i think another really cool moment

was, like, meeting my grandma. i think she was on the boat when i was born, so, like, she's been also thinking about me a lot through the years. earlier this year, her grandmother nearly died after suffering a stroke. just seeing her, and seeing my extended family, i'm just like... it really made it feel more like family. i don't know, just seeing how much that i was there, and she really wanted to see me before she died, and that was kind of — it was a powerful moment. it is time to say goodbye.

all the family are at the airport to see kati off. don't cry, 0k? hello. back in michigan, a new chapter is beginning in kati's life, as she prepares for her final year of university. i guess for, like, for other adoptees who are pursuing reunion or searching, i think it's important to just, like, be very aware of your feelings. and, like, there's not really a right and wrong way to feel during any part of the process.

no matter how much you know about your adoption, or why you were given up, or how much you feel about it, and how much it hurts, or no matter what the circumstance, i don't think it's good to suppress those feelings that might be hard to deal with. cold, arctic airand cold, arctic air and notjust affecting the uk at the moment but much of the us and canada. snowfall as far south as new orleans over the last few days. that arctic air all the way down to the gulf coast. with the way down to the gulf coast. with the jet stream is starting to strengthen, over 200 miles an hour this weekend, we start to throw weather fronts our way into the cold airwe have, and weather fronts our way into the cold air we have, and without a big risk of destructive snow. amber warnings in place across mid and north wales and much of the midlands. travel disruption likely. anywhere between five and 20 centimetres of snow possible, the northern edge of the uncertain but is are very close in

the morning. the southern edge will bea the morning. the southern edge will be a mixture of rain, snow, and back to rain through the day. the southernmost counties of england we will see mainly rain. a different issue here, it will be the strength of the wind. severe gale force winds. that could cause disruption of its own. this starts to beat out of its own. this starts to beat out of it, turning lighter and patchy into the afternoon. far north, scotland, northern ireland, if you wintry showers but most will have a dry and sunny sunday. temperatures struggling to get above freezing. in the south, the strong winds will temper the feel, but we could get temperatures into double digits. ice will be the risk as we go into sunday and monday, further snow showers in parts of scotland and northern ireland and widespread frost. temperatures in city centres, minus double digits in some parts of northern england and north wales and parts of scotland as well. a very cold start to monday. watch this air

of low pressure. the good news for us of low pressure. the good news for us is it's driven by a 200 mile an hourjet us is it's driven by a 200 mile an hour jet stream, looks us is it's driven by a 200 mile an hourjet stream, looks like it will strengthen and hit spain, portugal and france. we could get close to severe gales in the south—east corner, rain which could turn to snow. sleet and snow flurries could cause problems in pembrokeshire and parts of cornwall, much of the country cold, sunny but rather raw. into tuesday, after a night of clear skies and lighter winds it will be a severe widespread frost, especially with snow on the ground. tuesday it self slowly warming up, dry and reasonably sunny for many. change is afoot. in the mid—week, atlantic ta kes afoot. in the mid—week, atlantic takes over from the arctic. some snow in the hills, turning to rain as the weather front pushes east. windy weather, that will clear, sunshine into the east. frequent on

very heavy showers in the west, some with sleet, hail and snow, snow mainly over high ground. the air not quite as cold as the start of the week. more north—westerly winds by thursday, some are very windy conditions through wednesday night into thursday, could be severe gales. a sunshine inshallah data thursday, sleet and snow primarily over the hills. —— sunshine and showers day. next weekend, friday, looks like the rings will go back to north—westerly once again. even northerly. cold to finish the week, wintry showers around, snow mainly over the hills, the nights will be frosty but next week things will turn milder and we will get that oscillating pattern to take us to next week as well. this is bbc news. the headlines at ten. frank talks between borisjohnson and his iranian counterpart over the imprisonment of british mother nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe.

her husband says he's staying positive. it would be great if she came home on the plane. i think that would be beyond my wildest dppgss —— expectations but in terms of realistic hopes fingers crossed it's still possible she could be home by christmas. an amber weather warning for parts of wales and northern england as more snow is forecast to fall tonight. more violence in israel and the palestinian territories after president trump's decision onjerusalem. also this hour, a look ahead to tomorrow's front pages. including the mail on sunday, which reports claims that the prime minister had to intervene in what it calls a stand—up row between the chancellor