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tv   Our World  BBC News  December 2, 2018 3:30am-4:01am GMT

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this is bbc news, the headlines: the us president donald trump and his chinese counterpart xijinping have agreed to halt new trade tariffs for 90 days to allow for talks. the two men met in buenos aires after the 620 summit for their first talks since a trade war erupted this year. the french president, emmanuel macron, has condemned violence in paris during nationwide anti—government protests. more than 260 people have been detained. the so—called ‘yellow vest‘ movement is angry about taxation and a range of economic issues. damage was caused to shops — and the arc de triomphe was daubed with graffiti. mexico's new president, andres manuel lopez obrador, has been sworn in. he pledged to end what he called failed neo—liberal policies that have led to an increase in poverty and mass migration. an investigation into temporary work has found agency workers are being paid hundreds of pounds a year lessfor doing exactly the same job as staff employees. the report, by the resolution foundation think tank — calls for the law to be changed to protect almost a million uk agency workers.
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our business correspondent, colletta smith has more. 24—year—old conor mccann was employed by manpower to work in a call centre in canberra a full —— canterbury. i found that my collea g u es canterbury. i found that my colleagues were doing the exact same job and doing the same thing, and selling the same products were doing significantly more than me. research suggests conor is not alone. agency staff earn more than £400 less than those directly imported. but that's not just those directly imported. but that's notjust in those directly imported. but that's not just in low—paid, those directly imported. but that's notjust in low—paid, it also deductions in uniforms. their estimate almost a million people are working on these contracts and they have tougher regulation to protect staff. but the recruitment and employment federation representing the injury —— industry say agency work is vital to the economy and two thirds of workers are paid the same.
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conohs thirds of workers are paid the same. conor‘s union took on the case in one and he says it's made a massive difference to cash flow and his mental health. it's the difference between being able to go out and have a copy or being able to get a taxi home from a night out and it's those little things that really add up those little things that really add up to make a huge difference. the law already states workers should get equal pay and perks up to 12 weeks working with the same business but the resolution foundation say more needs to be done to make sure people know their rights. night look at this. wow. this is the story of a search... it's like a city. we're not being allowed to get this close to it at all. ..for something china doesn't want us to find. it is a story of broken families...
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..broken faith... ..and thousands of missing muslims. satellites do see beyond what the human eye can see. and it is the story of the new evidence we found, despite the attempts to stop us. xinjiang, china's vast far—west, is a place of beauty, and fear. checkpoints control the desert highways, and the region's towns and cities bristle with security. but there is something here they don't want
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the world to see. so it is 8:30am in the morning now, and we have just arrived but there is something here they don't want the world to see. so it is 8:30am in the morning now, and we have just arrived in this city. and straightaway, as we left the train station, we've got one, two, and another one back there — three cars following us. we're here to look for evidence of the network of camps in which china is reported to be detaining hundreds of thousands of muslims.
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huge fences all around it, look. high in these blue steel walls, in a former school, is what china calls a re—education centre, but it looks more like a prison. nearby, we find another. police station every few yards. 0utside, relatives queue up to visit. but any attempt to get out and film is quickly interrupted. so this is as close as we're being allowed to get to one of these centres. well, it seems we're not being allowed to get this close to it at all. so, for our investigation, we are turning to images that china can't so easily block — satellite photos. last year, the school behind the blue fence had a football pitch.
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today, it's covered with what look like accommodation blocks. watchtowers are visible. on a cornerjust outside the camp tents, we try to speak to a family. what are you guys doing here? some officials try to stop us filming. but another intervenes. let them speak, she says. i ask who they are visiting. my dad, he says. your dad is in there. why can't we ask them questions? xinjiang's main muslim minority are known as the uighurs. their distinct identity and faith, and the history of separatism, has long made them a target of suspicion.
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now, we find many homes locked and deserted. estimates suggest as many as a million people may now be in the re—education camps. 0fficial notices say the missing are being looked after. but no—one dares to speak. the constant monitoring and following sees to that. some uighurs, though, have found a place of refuge in turkey, a place with ties of language and faith. just reciting an islamic verse was enough, this man says, to put him in a re—education camp. his family, he fears, is still in one. in general, how did the guards treat the people inside?
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some of those we meet are too afraid, even here in turkey, to speak openly. this man says he was also put in a camp because of his religion. from three former inmates in three different camps, we hear three similar accounts, and all are concerned about the fate of relatives they have left behind. the whole family.
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tell me about life there. what was the routine? those we have spoken to are the lucky ones. they fled to turkey in 2015. since then, there are very few reports of anyone being released from the camps at all. the testimony we have heard here is impossible to independently verify, of course, but what is striking are the consistencies — the descriptions of the routines in the camps, the brainwashing techniques, and most tellingly, perhaps, the results. not love and loyalty for the chinese communist party, but a deep and lasting resentment.
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china denies it is incarcerating muslims en masse, but state—run tv has been showing this footage — apparently willing adults, in bright, clean classrooms being taught about the pitfalls of religious extremism. the message is clear. these are not detention centres, but vocational schools. in the old silk road city of kashgar, the government presents us with a tour guide. 0ur minders lurk a short way off,
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monitoring the conversation. but we've seen notices on the door saying some people's relatives are being looked after. what does that mean? does it mean they've been taken away? nearby, chinese tourists are taking pictures of kashgar‘s main mosque. it has fallen silent with no sign of prayer. anywhere else in the world, you'd expect the central city mosque
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like this one to be busy, bustling with worshippers. not here. if china's purpose is the eradication of islamic practice in xinjiang, it may be on the brink of succeeding. innermost thoughts must now be hidden. the mildest expression of islamic belief is at risk. beyond the veneer of normality, the ever—growing camps await. as we arrive in the town
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of dabancheng, we are being followed as usual. we are looking for evidence of the huge network of re—education camps that china is building across its western region of xinjiang. and we are using satellite photos to help us. in 2015, this patch of desertjust outside dabancheng was empty. less than three years later, it looked like this. the giant compound is surrounded by a high wall with 16 watchtowers. we try to approach the site by car. look at this.
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it is being extended on a massive scale. it's like a city. but then, the police block our way. so here we are, just a few metres from the camp and as predicted, we've been stopped. if this really is all about education, then why the effort to stop us getting close? it's huge. we ask a team of satellite analysts to help us understand what we found. taking the original image from april this year, they overlap much more recent image. more than double. it's clear how much the site has grown. the team is also able to show that this one camp as part of something much bigger, by identifying many other similar
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secure facilities right across xinjiang. plotting their growth over time shows just how fast they are being built. satellites see beyond what the human eye can see. as the years pass, we have detected the number of infrastructures being built, it increases and most significantly in the past two years. design experts give us their analysis of the layout of the giant camp at dabancheng. male accommodation and female accommodation, administration buildings, even an isolation unit. it could now be one of the biggest detention facilities in the world. holding 11,000 inmates single rooms were used and as many as 130,000 if the inmates were housed in dormitories. ethnic tension fuelled by resentment towards chinese rule has claimed hundreds of lives in xinjiang.
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in recent years, the violence has shown signs of spreading. this attack in beijing's tiananmen square killed two pedestrians. hundreds of uighurs are reported to have travelled to syria to join various militant groups. the camps are a direct response. a giant system in city after city, town after town and, for the detention of religious believers and, it seems, anyone with an overseas connection ofany kind. the chinese government, they want to delete the uighur nation from the walls, they want we raise this nation.
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raila is a british uighur living in london. last year, her mother came to visit but soon after she returned to xinjiang, she was taken away. her 66—year—old mother is now thought to be in a camp, proof, her daughter says, ofjust how wide china's definition of extremism now is. as far as i know, they are targeting everybody, who has relatives abroad. just targeting each and every one. i'm just a normal person. i am a student looking after my son. why are they detaining my mum, for what? for no reason. i don't know when i'm
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going to hear the voice. mahmud is another british uighur who's watched helplessly as family members back home disappear. i'm just hoping they are alive, that is my first stop my sister is in prison. she was a tv presenter and she was the government employee. she had done nothing wrong. she is innocent.
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we are like an egg. the chinese government is like a stone. they can crush you any time and they are so powerful. do you suspect that the international community may be scared of challenging china too hard? everybody, they don't want to lose china as a business wise. money is important but we are human. international pressure is beginning to mount. at a recent un hearing, western countries one by one expressed deep unease. we are very concerned about the treatment of ethnic minorities, including uighurs. .. translation: we recommend all re—education centres be closed in uighurareas... all detention, including mass unconstitutional... release those detained... unrestricted access to places of internment in the region... china, though, remains defiant. we asked the chinese government to comment on any evidence
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we uncovered on the ground. we asked the chinese government to comment on any evidence we uncovered on the ground. this field outside kashgar has been transformed into a re—education camp in less than six months. we attempt to film one of them. we are forced to leave.
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as thousands are swept up into such facilities, families are being separated. when bilkiz fled with her children, her baby daughter didn't have a passport. her father stayed behind, planning to bring her later but now he has been taken away. what is your view about what the chinese government is doing? re—education, vocational training, suggests something limited and temporary. but our evidence shows the camps in prison is being used that purpose are large—scale and seemingly permanent. the question then is where does all of this end?
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and the history of mass incarceration offers some pretty ominous precedents. are they going to turn us back here? we make one final attempt to visit one final camp where, we've heard, 10,000 people may be held. in front of us, the police closed the whole highway. for repair, they say. we try other routes but every time, at roadblock after roadblock, there is nowhere through. this takes us back to downtown. 0n on saturday it was 15 degrees across the south of the country and it
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looks like sunday will be every bit of mild across parts of southern england, even across northern england, even across northern england, temperatures will be in the teens. there is the chance of some showers. clouds streaming in off the atlantic, coming in from the south—west. this is where the air is coming from. colder in scotland. here we have had some clearer skies. a touch of frostjust outside town centres. the weather pretty messy at the moment. lots of weather fronts crossing the country. a lot of cloud in the forecast for the rest of the night. and into sunday. little bits and pieces of rain. in the north, as isaid, the and pieces of rain. in the north, as i said, the skies are clearing. a bit colder. temperatures in aberdeen first thing on sunday morning about three degrees whereas in the south it is about 11 or 12. that is an overnight temperatures. exceedingly mild. this weather pattern will continue through sunday come at into monday and tuesday will see lots of weather fronts and low pressure coming out of the south—west and being a is fairly cloudy but mild weather at times. you can see these
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west south—westerlies here, where the air is coming from. just a hint of perhaps a northerly in the far north of the uk where it will indeed be quite a bit colder on sunday. in fa ct, be quite a bit colder on sunday. in fact, these are the wind speeds. lighter winds than the north. a bit of sunshine in scotland. we won't feel too bad, we are more used a slightly lower temperatures across this part of the world, six degrees in aberdeen, 15 or 16 across the south of the uk. sunday night into monday sees another little area of low pressure, with the weather front moving into central and southern parts of the uk. 0nce moving into central and southern parts of the uk. once again we are expecting some rain pretty much from the early morning across wales and the early morning across wales and the south—west, eastern areas and northern areas working up to some sunshine but very quickly it will cloud over and those rain patches will march through. it will not rain everywhere and it will not necessarily be heavy but it looks at the second half of the afternoon on monday will be clearer. colder areas scotland, by in aberdeen, 12 or 13
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in the south. it will stay on the mild side across the southern half of the uk with temperatures in two double figures for most of the week, whereas in the north it will turn pretty chilly early in the week. goodbye. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. i'm reged ahmad. our top stories: after talks between presidents trump and xi, the us says it now it won't slap new tariffs on china for 90 days to allow for negotiations. —— the us says it now won't slap new tariffs on china for 90 days to allow for negotiations. french anger on the streets of paris — ‘yellow vest‘ protesters take on police in the heart of the city. president macron is furious. translation: the authors of this violence do not want change. they don‘t want any improvement, they don‘t. they just want to wreak chaos. i will faithfully execute the office of the president of the united states. tributes are being paid to former us president george h w bush, a key player in the end of the cold war. and will there be a new heavyweight boxing champion?
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