Last group of couples allowed to take home adopted children

Описание: (20 May 2003)
1. Exterior shot Beijing International airport
2. Mid shot of bus carrying adoptive parents and girls arriving the airport
3. Pan from people inside the bus to adoptive parents with baby girl getting off the bus
4. Pan from baby chart to adoptive parents
5. Pan from girl to adoptive mother with surgical mask
6. Wide shot of the adoptive parents
7. Adoptive mother with daughter, zoom in to baby girl
8. Cutaway luggage being put on carts
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Martin, adoptive father from Northamptonshire, England
"And really we weighed up all the odds. It's so important for us to come here for our child. We felt that it outweighed any risk to us from SARS at all. As a doctor, I looked at the evidence for it and looked at numbers of cases, and we as a group decided that it is safe to come here, and a beautiful child over there, it made it all worth while. We are not concerned."
10. Adoptive mother with daughter
11. Close up on girl
12. Mid shot adoptive parents
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tom Fry, adoptive father from London
"It's nothing worse than having a photo, and then being stuck knowing the baby is waiting for you to come, and you are not coming, so we feel very lucky actually to be here."
14. Wide shot adoptive parents entering airport departure hall
15. Close up mother with daughter
16. Pan from sign reading 'International departure' to adoptive parents
17. Parents having their temperature checked
18. Wide shot adoptive mothers and daughters
19. Adoptive parents filling out health forms
20. Pan from adoptive mother Lorna Martin with girl to Robert Martin showing his daughter's Chinese passport (UPSOUND: (English) Robert Martin, adoptive father from Northamptonshire, England "Republic of China passport of our daughter, Luo Hui Qing."
21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lorna Martin, adoptive mother from Northamptonshire, England
"We are heartbroken about it. We know how much we wanted to come. Our trip was cancelled a few days before we were due to fly out and we were very fortunate to be able to persuade appropriate people to allow us to come. But we are heartbroken for those people who have photographs particularly of the children and haven't been able to come out. We feel very blessed to have them."
22. Pan from adoptive mother with girl to adoptive parents
23. Wide shot of the group
24. Wide shot of board showing departures of flights
25. Close up board showing London as the destination
26. Close up girl with flag
27. Adoptive mother with girl holding a Chinese National flag
28. Close up on passports
29. Wide shot adoptive parents entering customs
30. Close up on policeman
31. Adoptive mother kissing daughter
32. Adoptive parents entering customs

STORYLINE:

The last group of adoptive parents left Beijing on Tuesday morning after China announced a suspension of foreign adoptions to help curb the spread of SARS last Friday.

The group of five British parents returned to London after they picked up their Chinese daughters in Changsha, in the central China province of Hunan.

The little girls are aged between eight months and a little over a year.

With help from the government-run China Centre of Adoption Affairs, the group was able to travel to China after their trip was originally cancelled.

The centre is still processing adoptions, but has stopped sending out documents authorising new parents to come to China.

It said travel documents, issued for foreign parents to come to China to be matched with children, would have their validity extended for six months so they could travel after the suspension is lifted.






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