Fire Destroys International Terminal At Jomo Kenyatta; Baby Trafficking Ring Stopped In China
ANDERSON: All right. You're back with us. It's 20 minutes past midnight here in Abu Dhabi. That's the skyline here at the end of Ramadan. You're watching Connect the World live from Abu Dhabi. I'm Becky Anderson. Air travelers across Africa are facing big delays after a fire engulfed Kenya's busiest airport. Now hundreds of passengers have been left stranded outside Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. The international arrivals hall was damaged extensively in the blaze it took five hours to bring under control. No word on the cause as of yet. Domestic and cargo flights have resumed. And no casualties are thankfully reported. The Kenyatta airport is the busiest in East Africa, served by 27 airlines, flying to 23 countries. It handles 16,000 passengers a day and more than 5 million a year. Well, let's turn to the scene on the ground now. And speak to CNN's Nima Elbagir who is in Nairobi. They've said that they resumed domestic flights. They're in evidence, are they now, and we've got some cargo back in the air, right?</s>NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, they've cleared the cargo that's in -- well, they're in the process, I should say, of clearing the cargo that's in the warehouses here, but they still haven't announced any plane to get those goods that are expected on the global markets -- the vegetables, the third of the world's flowers that Kenya provides, we still don't yet know what's going to happen with them. And, yes, domestic flights have resumed. And that's working to unknot some of that chaos you spoke about, because they're going to the regional airport in Mombasa. But, again, you know, this is the hundreds that were affected here in the airport, but this really has disrupted travel for thousands of passengers. And this is the beginning of the tourism season, Becky, so we're going to see quite a financial fallout from this in the days to come.</s>ANDERSON: Listen, the government has said that international arrivals will resume on Thursday. I was talking to some people today who have been pretty surprised at how quickly they think they can get this -- get these arrivals up and running once again. You rightly point out how important this is to the economy. I've used that airport numerous times on holidays through Kenya. I mean, it's not the most efficient necessarily, but, you know, it's a busy one. We've got any more specific details on when these international arrivals will begin once again. And it can get this airport operational, as it should be?</s>ELBAGIR: Well, the hope is that there will be some sort of a limited service starting from Thursday, which is tomorrow morning here focusing on the international routes, the national Kenya Airways has said that it's going to quickly try and bring back into service that route through Amsterdam and then which goes back through Europe. And again that plays into the financial impact of the tourism that they're trying to limit here. But as you said, this really isn't the most efficient of airports at the best of times. And people are concerned that these plans that are being announced are perhaps a trifle optimistic. And of course while they're doing all of this, they're also trying to handle the ongoing investigation into how this could have happened in the first place, given how important, how crucial this airport is, not just to Kenya's economy, but to the whole region. And questions are being asked about how there wasn't a working sprinkler system in place. How at one point the interior ministry was forced to admit that water supplies that the fire service was using to put out the blaze, that they were running low. And given Kenya's broader economic ambitions, these are issues that the government is going to have to work to find some pretty convincing answers for in the next few days, Becky.</s>ANDERSON: Yeah. All right. Nima Elbagir, who I know flew into the airport only hours ago from Rwanda where she was on a trip with -- or reporting on a trip with Bill Clinton. You've used -- you've battled the airport as many other people have had to today, but good to have you with us. Nima, in Nairobi for you. All right, health officials in China are cracking down on an alarming rise in newborn baby thefts. Corrupt doctors are said to be selling babies to human traffickers after convincing their parents they were born with severe defects. Now one family was reunited with their child, but most aren't nearly as lucky. David McKenzie filed this report.</s>DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It's an awful case of baby human trafficking in the city in western China that is shocking the nation. Take a look at these extraordinary images as a young mother is reunited with her newborn son who had been trafficked to a neighboring province. Here are the allegations that a doctor in this town at a maternity hospital convinced the parents that their child had a congenital defect and took the child away from them and sold them on for some $3,000 to human traffickers. It seems like this is a trafficking ring and that this isn't the first time. Scores of parents in this city have come forward to say that their children, too, might have been taken away and sold to traffickers eventually through several steps to adoptive parents elsewhere in China. Of course, this is shocking China and shocked the government. They say they're going to have a national review of health care in the country to see whether loop holes could be to allow such an awful thing like a parent losing their child to human traffickers. David McKenzie, CNN, Chongqing Province.</s>ANDERSON: Well, Japan's prime minister says that his government will take action to accelerate the cleanup at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The company that runs the plant has acknowledged that highly radioactive water is leaking out of the site into ground water in the harbor nearby. But Shinzo Abe is not content to leave the cleanup in the company's hands. Have a listen to this.</s>SHINZO ABE, PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN (through translator): The stability of Fukushima is also one of our tasks, notably the contaminated water problem is one that the Japanese people have a high level of interest in and is an urgent issue to deal with. This is not an issue we can let Tepco take complete responsibility of. And we have to deal with this at a national level.</s>ANDERSON: The latest world news headlines are just ahead here on CNN. Plus an ugly problem rears its head once again, the vicious Internet troll issue and what can be done to stop it. And what could happen next in Egypt after authorities there declare that diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis have failed.