This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles and at 13 hours GMT on Friday the 6th of September, these are our main stories.

China is ending the practice of allowing children to be adopted abroad.

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Many people have adopted children from China over the decades,

visiting the country to pick them up and then taking them to a new home overseas. At least 150,000 children have gone

abroad in the last three decades. But now the Chinese government has had a rethink. That's Mawning, a foreign ministry spoke person saying the practice of allowing children

to be adopted overseas is coming to an end.

She says this followed what she called the spirit of relevant international conventions, and she

went on to express gratitude to foreign governments and families who'd wished to adopt Chinese children.

I got more from our Asia Pacific editor Mickey Bristow.

It's understandable to see this change because there has been a real shift in the attitude

towards a number of children in China by the Chinese government.

Over about a decade ago China ended the one child policy which had been in place for a couple of decades itself and that policy led to, if I can put it in sensitively in excess of children.

Parents were punished if they had more than one child.

And so a lot of families were simply forced to kind of put their

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