that would do a lot. of young men that. milimeter nea. us here. but indulging channeled. inside cash it's almost impossible to report independently government officials do their best to conceal any sign of the oppression to hugh describes look closer and the cracks appear the party approved vision of this city is a facade cashcard historic old town has been demolished and just one section rebuilt as a sort of we get theme park the chinese tourists. you can buy souvenirs try the local cuisine. and even see a shark. but

this tension in the year. the locals can't speak with us. armed guards and cameras keep a watchful eye and chinese flags climb the rooftops even the diam of the mosque. so it's quite difficult to film here we've got about six miners with this the whole time of it telling us what we can fill the time to sometimes they delayed now material on top of that we've got about another eight to ten security guards that further restrict ok movements what i can tell you from the car is that they're sort of in a kind of grid like management system in every one hundred meters or so you see a police station and they're aided with a normas amounts of c.c.t.v. cameras. with facial recognition to really have

a total control here. what is clearly said there is quite a brutal repressive crackdown going on here and technology is at the center of it. take on social credit is simple and ruthless. citizens here and not given a school instead they're divided into just three categories trustworthy average untrustworthy. if you're han chinese you're dangerous worthy and granted freedom of movement. but if you're wiggo your average with restrictions imposed on travel and religious practices if you're a weak a mile who breaks those restrictions your marked as untrustworthy and detained in what the party calls education and training centers. talkie how

much has another name for them. sure it was like a much better night at target. but a. lot of an art of. conduct. i don't think you. should at once year term machine. and i think and the butcher was like a little band. not on. on the can. you can walk we took it out on our. part appears. in august this year the u.n. announced it did seem credible reports there over a million we get is a currently held without charge in camps in jan purely because of their ethnicity the chinese government rejects the claim insisting it only detains convicted terrorists tie his personal experience tells

a different story when she junger thirty's discovered he fled to america his brother and two brothers in law disappeared. which meant going to mess. about them as. long as think what. a lot of smiles we're going to miss because. they can distil. us up. on all of them some of them in their. back in cianci journalist leo who worries for his family to his blacklisting on social credit has cast a shadow on those closest to hear. shots

yan who. is an old journalist calling. them wishing it's a walk and meeting with a me. was it a little did i sincerely thought you. were in a chainsaw years and years and years and. so contingencies were centered on these and you don't. like talking here who is risking the welfare of his friends and family to alert the world to china's experiment in high tech social engineering he says people don't fully comprehend what's to come a digital totalitarian state where algorithms decide your fate and nothing can be questioned due to her toward her. but are. to no imminent. chances of

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this is al-jazeera. blogs at all robert you're watching al-jazeera news our life one headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes saudi arabia says it seeking the death penalty for the alleged. as a journalist about but ankara says the announcement falls short of expectations. well in the light of the us imposes sanctions against seventeen saudi nationals for their role in the journalist's murder. also then battled british prime minister theresa may defends her draft deal after resignations by two q.k. cabinet ministers plus

a sudanese refugees head home more than fifteen years after war broke out in downfall. of the company on the news of saudi arabia says it seeking the death penalty for five suspects charged over the murder of journalist. the kingdom's public prosecution made the announcement revealing the findings of its investigation which turkey immediately dismissed as inadequate and two sevens has more from istanbul. saudi arabia's prosecution spokesman announcing the death penalty is being sought for five out of twenty one main now indicted for the killing of jamal khashoggi they're not named and the account of what happened once again differs from what turkish prosecutors say they found so far i met also you know to do with jerry in the war in iraq what it was a brawl fighting and injecting him with

a large dose of a citizen of substance that caused his death the person who ordered this crime was arrested with another four operatives and it was a total of five the body our through his death was dismembered and transported outside the consulate building those five people took the remains out the person who delivered the body to the contractor was a single person a sketch of the contract that was drafted based on the description given by the person who handed over the remains the new saudi version of events repeats the assertion that it was some sort of extraction operation ordered by akhmed our siri the former deputy intelligence chief no one higher than that there was a clear denial that crown prince mohammed bin sound man was in any way involved the saudi prosecution say the team was tasked to bring kushal ji back to saudi arabia willingly or by force and they say the leader of the team took it upon himself to

actually carry out the murder the turkish ruling party says the whole account of events is a cover up turkey's foreign minister is more diplomatic but also dismissive. yeah it's we have said before this was a premeditated murder and also as we know the remains of the person were kept to pieces and the prosecutor has meets in the us we already knew this but the dismemberment of the body was not a spontaneous event suit and diverge ills and devices were brought here to this country in advance of the fifteen people who came to turkey should be tried in accordance with. turkish law because according to the you know conviction the turkish more as in this case even if the murder took place and the saudi consulate in istanbul. saudi foreign minister. says criticisms of his country's investigation are unfair there's a perception of innocence until proven guilty this presumption for a strange reason has been turned upside down in this case if people don't think

that we are serious about taking steps legal steps against people implicated in this matter then they should wait until the legal process plays out before rushing to judgment but. on friday there are two significant events absentee funeral prayers will be held around the world for come out. and for the first time his family will receive condolences at their home in jeddah and acknowledgment of not only his death but the body will never be returned andrew simmons al-jazeera is tumble to other shell has the latest on the turkish government's reaction to the saudi announcement. the foreign minister has pointed to numerous holes in the latest narrative that's come from saudi arabia not least when it comes to this idea that the hit squad that was sent was only sent to istanbul to extract jamal

khashoggi either willingly or against his role the question as to why then there were tools present at the time that are used to dismember a body why there was a specialist who was stream really experienced in being able to dismember a body so quickly why there was a body double and so many other inconsistency is in the saudi narrative now the turkish approach from the beginning of this case has been to slowly and gradually leak different information different evidences that they're investigation in a bid to try and strongly encourage or force the saudis to be more forthcoming but also to build an international consensus and that's why the share that information with washington with london with berlin paris and other significant players however it seems that they are also growing a bit frustrated or maybe that they are a bit disappointed in the maybe lack of strength in the position of those countries in ensuring that justice is served namely demanding that the saudis own up to who

gave the order because they believe in an absolute monarchy there is no way that crown prince mohammed bin saddam on the de facto leader of saudi arabia wouldn't have at least known of this operation if not or did it himself which means that the next step most likely for the charts and if you did this to this already through their foreign minister is that they will seek an international investigation whether that's through the united nations or the international criminal court we're not quite sure i mean if the international other rights groups have said that turkey not should not only pursue this but it is turkey's obligation to do so in order to ensure that justice is served. well some breaking news coming in from the u.s. for republican and democratic u.s. senators have filed a bill seeking to suspend weapons sales to saudi arabia in response to the war in yemen. not just hours after the u.s. has also without sanctions on seventeen of the saudis involved in the killing mike hanna our correspondent joins us now from washington d.c.

let's just start with our breaking news real political pressure now on the white house coming from a bipartisan selection of politicians. indeed yes this bill has now been introduced in the senate called the comprehensive saudi arabia accountability and given act it deals with yemen and saudi its role in the war there and in particular strikes said to us support for those ongoing operations but it brings in as well the murder of jamal khashoggi insisting that those responsible be held accountable in the course of the day senators reacted to the u.s. sanctions being placed on seventeen individuals welcoming the action but most senators insisting that it simply does not go far enough now this act being introduced in the senate certainly putting pressure to bear on the white house the key question here first of all whether it gets passed and secondly the strength

with which it is passed because a president trump is able to veto legislation coming out of the house but that veto can then be overridden by a two thirds majority vote in the house and in the senate so certainly this is a ramping up of pressure on the trumpet ministration to be seen to be taking more tangible and stronger action not just against individuals but against saudi arabia itself but the white house has been pushing back has it not by in recent weeks since all of this scenario unfolded not to place too many sanctions. because they really don't want to risk sort of the military spend that saudi has this forced president trump is concerned that the job creation and sales that entails as far as the u.s. economy is concerned. yes indeed president trump has made that very clear his argument from the very beginning of the soul of there has been that the u.s. would suffer more than saudi arabia he's been throwing around figures like one

hundred ten billion dollars worth of arms buying which is totally incorrect according to the pentagon but he has been insisting that this is the case but it goes further than that so the other issue as well is that the trumpet ministration has invested immensely heavily in the crown prince of saudi arabia both in terms of its actions against iran and in terms of that peace initiative that president trump says he wants to introduce into the middle east so basically a lot has been put at stake on the question of the crown prince the involvement or potential involvement of the crown prince in the murder of jamal khashoggi would obviously be a major blow to the trumpet ministrations plans for the regions and its tactics and just to add as well so in the course of the day a number of senators insisting that the crown prince should be held accountable and his name should be added to those who have sanctions wrapped against them by the

u.s. treasury department indeed mike let's talk about democratic senator ben cardin saying i'm just quoting here i remain concerned that the administration is enabling the kingdom of saudi arabia in its effort to protect crown prince mohammed bin salon from accountability exactly what you said how is this playing out in the sort of the domestic audience in the u.s. because some senators are also talking about the fact that saudi arabia was sanctioned after the nine eleven attacks where one of the states was implicated in the attacks but there was sort of eluded to the fact that some members of the saudi hierarchy might have supported al qaeda these sorts of issues in a real ring their head seventeen years old very much so it was the obama administration that to the fear.