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crimes of genocide. enabling the world community ‘s, the world community is enabling the chinese economy to continue to murder our people. china is waging a war on religion. the chinese government is treating the religion and the uighur peoples ethnic identity as a preventable disease. the option given for uighur is you either become a han chinese, forsake your religion, your identity, your language, your culture and you become like a han chinese. this is bbc news — welcome 0r die in the concentration if you're watching camp and the world communities here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. are not only watching this, also rewarding china i'm mike embley — our top stories. by allowing china to host leaked documents seen by the bbc provide new evidence of china's crackdown on uighurmuslims in the 2022 winter olympics. the western region of xinjiang. apple warns it won't meet apple has warned that it its quarterly revenue won't achieve its forecast projections due to the coronavirus outbreak affecting revenues for this financial both production quarter because of the coronavirus outbreak. the tech company says that although its factories in china have reopened, they're not yet operating at full capacity. and demand in china the authorities in china have confirmed a firther 98 deaths from the virus and just over 1,800 new infections with 800,000 people displaced in the last 2a hours. since december combined 0utside china more than a50 with freezing conditions — cases were confirmed on board the united nations says the diamond princess the offensive in idlib has quaratined in japan. created a major hundreds of american citizens humanitarian crisis. and the world's richest man — from the ship have been airlifted to the us amazon bossjeff bezos — and other countries says he's donating are considering similar evacuations. $10 billion to help rupert wingfield hayes reports. fight climate change.
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get going. bye. the moment americans cheryl and paul molesky stepped off the diamond princess and into the welcoming arms of the us military. the plane takes you documents seen by the bbc appear to provide some of the most detailed insights yet into how china has handled to the united states. hundreds of thousands of muslims held in a network of internment camps. and then you get your passport. they include personal details all good with that? of members of the uighur woo hoo! community, placed in detention the 340 american evacuees a re clearly relieved for reasons such as wearing to be going home. a veil, applying for a passport or accidentally clicking on foreign internet sites. but they are taking the virus with them. researchers who've studied china's policies in the western region of xinjiang believe the documents are further evidence of an official campaign against the uighurs. the authorities have on board their evacuation always denied any form flight, a special isolation of religious discrimination. unit. inside, 1a fellow passengers for two years now, the bbc has who have tested positive.
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reported on camps like these and as the americans took off and headed home, in western china where another 99 new infections about a million uighurs were confirmed aboard and other muslim minorities the giant cruise ship. have been detained without for those still on board, trial. china says the uighurs like briton david abel, held here learn chinese the stress is starting and communist party doctrine to take its toll. as part of an attempt to combat it's all getting to us now, extremism and terrorism. but a leaked document seen and it's notjust me, by the bbc suggests these camps are part of a comprehensive other passengers as well. crackdown on religious practice. across 137 pages, it's the not knowing factor the spreadsheet sets out in huge detail why more than 300 uighurs from one particular county in xinjiang province were considered that is the real challenge. for detention. the quarantine on board the diamond princess is supposed to end on wednesday, and passengers had been told that if some were detained because they had applied for a passport. they had relatives abroad they tested negative, or had unintentionally landed on a foreign website while searching the internet. they then would be allowed others were detained because they used to grow to go home, but with 99 a long beard or used to wear new viral cases confirmed today, the overwhelming suspicion is that the quarantine is not working. a veil, or because they had because of that, the journey home for those left on board is now looking a minor religious infection. a lot more complicated. some were guilty of violations tonight, the foreign office of birth control policies, said it's formulating plans orsimply being an to get the britons untrustworthy person. onboard the ship home. the document was passed australia's already preparing a flight to
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through intermediaries to asiye abdulaheb, a uighur evacuate its nationals. exile living in amsterdam, but when i spoke to one who decided to make it public. of them, aun na tan, translation: of course i am she was not enthusiastic. we're finding the thought worried about the safety of being put on a plane with people who haven't been tested yet and potentially of my relatives and friends getting the infection right but if everyone keeps silent then, after we have already because they want to protect completed almost two weeks themselves and their families then we will never prevent of quarantine, not ideal. japan, meanwhile, is starting to feel the effects of the virus‘s spread. these crimes being committed. next weekend is the emperor's birthday, a celebration that the document includes data usually draws huge gathered by communist party crowds of well—wishers. officials of uighurs‘ private today, the whole event was cancelled without warning. rupert wingfield—hayes, and religious lives, bbc news, in yokohama. what they eat and where, in syria, aid officials describe young children when they pray or go to mosque. freezing to death and families with nowhere else to run, and details of some 3000 to escape government airstrikes and army operations. a humanitarian crisis seems to be descending family, friends and neighbours into a new kind with whom they may be considered guilty by of deadly chaos. association. the document is hard to verify 100%, but experts who have examined it told me they believe it is genuine. in a rare public address, president assad has insisted the entire internment campaign and the reasoning behind it his military campaign will reveals a very detailed continue — despite the impact and in itself entirely on his own people. consistent worldview, freya cole reports. a young syrian girl and her
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father play a game while jets drop bombs in the distance. one which we might liken to the ideology of a medieval witch hunt, which is highly fearful of anything religious. last year, china invited the cameras in, claiming these laughs laughter is the only way, camps were merely vocational education centres. says the girl's father, and today, the country's to cope with the hardships of incessant war. embassy in london insisted the syrian army, backed by russia, has increased air strikes in the north—west of the only people being held were those convicted of unlawful or criminal the country in their relentless goal to control the last acts involving terrorism major rebel stronghold. and religious extremism, and it denied targeting any specific religion or ethnic group. james landale, bbc news. i spoke to rushan abbas. she is founder and executive translation: the battle director of the campaign for to liberate idlib uyghurs. i asked her if she thought and aleppo countryside is ongoing. regardless of some of the empty bubbles of sound the document was genuine. coming from the north, as well as the battle for liberating all yes, it is. syrian soil, crushing it is genuine because it confirms everything terrorism and achieving stability. what the experts and as assad wraps up his the reporters and we have been offensive, more people saying for the past are forced to flee. in the last four days two, three years. alone, the united nations
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and yet china insists has estimated 40,000 people it is only running voluntary have been displaced. internment camps, that all this many of them are women and children. they hope to reach the border with turkey with a dream to enter europe, but first they must is about trying to stop outrun the bombs and survive the bitter cold. extremism and terrorism. there has been a free terrorism? no, that is a complete lie. translation: there are 140 my sister, who was a retired families without shelter. medical doctor who speaks there are no heaters, fluent chinese and has not engaged with any kind of illegal religious activities, the conditions and my in—laws, that were living about 20 kilometres away from the province where the leaked document emerged. are difficult, the weather they are not criminals. is harsh, especially at night. they are not extremists. we have very young children who the only crime of my family have suffered because they have is because they are uighurs become ill from the cold. and they are muslim. aid agencies have warned their resources a re seriously overwhelmed. let's expand on that for people who don't know your story. i know you've given evidence to the senate committee on foreign relations but specifically last to add to their concerns, year, you gave a speech the syrian army is to a think tank in washington wiping out vital public resources like this hospital which has been forced to close.
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and after that, a ceasefire is desperately yourauntand your needed according to the united sister disappeared. nations but it's a plea which has been repeatedly ignored, not only by the syrian army but by leaders around the world. let's get some of yes, it was september the day's other news. 2018, about 18 months senior officials from ago. i talked about the conditions the european union have of the camps on the panel told the boss of facebook he is not doing enough and outlines the fate to regulate content of my in—laws. six days later, my aunt on his platform. at a meeting in brussels, and my sister got abducted officials urged mark zuckerberg on the same day. to back up the company's they live about 11100 efforts to curb hate speech kilometres away from each other. and disinformation, with more regulation and accountability. britain's chief brexit negotiator has said that the uk will not be bound by european union rules after brexit. in his first major speech in brussels david frost laid out the uk government's position as it tries to negotiate a future as retaliation, clearly it was retaliation by the chinese government for my activism here in america relationship with the eu. under my constitutional rights. and what has happened to them? an advisor to the british prime minister who's suggested intelligence is inherited and has a racial component, has resigned. andrew sabisky is also reported as saying compulsory contraception could avoid creating a "permanent underclass." he claims he's suffered my aunts was released about four from selective quoting — months later but there but says he's going is absolutely no information because he doesn't want of my sister's whereabouts. to be a distraction. it has been 18 months. the dj and music producer i have no idea where andrew weatherall, she is, where she is has died at the age of 56. he suffered a pulmonary being held or what kind of health condition embolism while being treated she is in right now. in hospital in london. he rose to fame in the 1980s
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in the view of your campaign, is the world is doing and ‘90s and made influential, enough about this, inspirational work with about all of this? a number of bands including is the word doing anything new order, about this and is there much happy mondays and primal scream, producing their era—defining album the rest of the world can do screamadelica. because china is such a powerful player now? the world is not doing anything. watching and witnessing a genocide taking place in the 21st century. china is powerful because the world is continuing to do business as usual stay with us on bbc news, still to come: while trying a's is holding one crossing the border just to get to school. why a pair of american students journey from mexico to the us each and every day. to 3 million people in the concentration camps and violating every element 00:07:32,896 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 of the geneva convention. if nine years and 15,000 deaths after going into afghanistan, the last soviet troops were finally coming home. the withdrawal completed in good order, but the army defeated in the task it had been sent to perform. malcolm has been murdered. that has a terrible effect on the morale of the people.
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i am terrified of the repercussions on the streets. one wonders who is next. as the airlift got under way, there was no let—up in the eruption itself. lava streams from a vent low in the crater flow down to the sea on the east of the island, away from the town for the time being, but it could start flowing again at any time. the russians heralded their new—generation space station with a spectacular night launch. they called it mir, the russian for peace. this is bbc world news, the latest headlines: leaked documents seen by the bbc have provided detailed new evidence of china's crackdown on uighurmuslims in the western region of xinjiang.
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the us tech giant, apple,has warned that it won't achieve its forecast revenues for this financial quarter because of the coronavirus outbreak. both production and demand in china have been affected. the chief executive of amazon, jeff bezos, has pledged $10 billion to help tackle climate change. in a social media post he says he's setting up a fund to give grants to projects by scientists, activists and non—governmental bodies to help fight what he calls the biggest threat to our planet. peter bowes has more. this is not a prize. this is not a company that he can profit from. these are indeed grants that will be awarded to various organisations starting this summer, activists, scientists as you say, non—governmental organisations who are pursuing the goal of tackling climate change as he put it, the devastating impact of climate change in his quite short social media posting. he said, "we can save earth,"
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but he stresses that collaboration is needed between all of these various organisations and individuals. i guess there will be people saying, he can afford it, he has an estimated fortune of $130 billion and of course the company has faced a lot of criticism for the emissions from its delivery vehicles for the amount of waste from packaging. yes, he has faced a lot of criticism, as indeed has amazon for exactly those reasons, seen by a lot of people as not doing very much to save earth because of all of that packaging, all of those cardboard boxes, all of those diesel and petrol trucks that are driving around, delivering parcels. now, amazon has indeed pledged to purchase many electrical vehicles and trucks to deliver those parcels over the coming years, pledged to be carbon neutral within two or three decades, but the criticism continues. of course he's also part of blue 0rigin,
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which is the rocket company that's pursuing suborbital space tourism, and that venture has been criticised because of its potential carbon footprint. so while people have indeed praised him in the last few hours for the social media posting, outlining these new plans, he's still getting quite a lot of criticism, people saying that he could still do more. as far as you know, peter, when is all this getting going — immediately? it's getting going this summer, and he hasn't given us a lot of detail as to exactly who or indeed that the nature of these grants, but certainly pledges by the summer of this year that this money will start to be distributed. peter bowes for us there. the daily rush to school is a staple of life for parents and kids around the world. but what if, instead ofjust heading down the road or to the other end of town, you have to cross an international border? that's what two american students living in mexico do, each and every day.
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their story is the latest in our bbc series, crossing divides. alarm beeps we're us citizens because we were born in the united states. but we live in mexico and we study in the us. we are juniors in high school. crossing the border for us, depending on how much line there is, it's chaotic sometimes. bell rings
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being bilingual while being at the border — it's almost like a superpower. you're that glue. you're able to bring two worlds together. let's read on. keep going. i know it's for our benefit to speak english, and they try to enforce it, but in our free time, we always speak spanish. we are sort of a hallway into america if you will. in fact, we've actually found bullets, packages of drugs on our campus, people that have just hopped over the fence illegally, running away from the border patrol agents. it's concerning. people that jump the border
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want to get a better life, opportunity. i can relate to them just because life hits them hard too. we've never missed school. i think it is a privilege to come to school even though it may be chaotic. thatis that is really quite a school run. this is just that is really quite a school run. this isjust come in... the veteran nascar driver, ryan newman, is being treated in hospital after a horrific crash on the last lap of the daytona 500. he was leading the race on the last lap before his car hit the wall and flipped onto its roof, before catching fire. he was taken to hospital where he's said to be in a serious condition although doctors have said his injuries are non—life—threatening.
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the race was being run on monday because of bad weather on sunday. jacqueline du pre's career as one of the most gifted and celebrated cellists of the twentieth century was cut short by multiple sclerosis. she was just 42 when she died. more than 3 decades later, her life has now inspired a new work by the royal ballet. the world premiere hasjust been held at the royal opera house in london. 0ur arts editor, will gompertz, reports. the cellist is a story of love and loss between a woman and an object — the musicianjacqueline du pre and her cello. the cello, you know, it looks like a person. we refer to its neck, its body, its voice. its sound is very much like the human voice. lauren cuthbertson plays the cellist, marcelino sambe her instrument — a combination that required some role reversal. usually, the woman is traditionally in front of the man and the man partners from here, but actually,
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when you're playing the cello, i'm behind marcelino like this, so we had to come up with different grips. it was almost like reverse. yeah. the ballet tells jacqueline du pre's life story, charting her rise to international superstardom followed by a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, forcing her to give up her beloved cello. the moment when you know something is wrong but you don't know what it is i think must be horrific, especially when, you know, she couldn't feel her fingers. she had this tingling sensation. the weight of the bow was not feeling as it had done before. there are two subjects, i suppose, in this ballet. there is the cello as a subject and then there is jacqueline du pre's illness, which is multiple sclerosis, which your mother also has. yes. in terms of my mother and ms, i think it gave me confidence to explore that condition,
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because i'm, you know, seeing it in a very personal way. but it's not a ballet about ms. it's a ballet about someone who finds their voice, finds their identity and loses it. this isn't a tragedy only, it's also a celebration that such talent exists, and almost like the sound waves still continue now. the choreographer cathy marston ending that report, by will gompertz. a ghost ship has washed up on the coast of ireland. authorities are wanting people to stay away off the coast of cork in gales. it drifted for over a year, from africa, last spain to ireland. the crew was rescued back in 2018. thank you
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for watching, more news at any time on our website. hello there. storm dennis may be long out of the way, but it's left a legacy, a legacy of severe flooding in places, water as far as the eye can see on this weather watch picture from the worcester area. now, there are still a number of severe flood warnings in force, these tending to be clustered along stretches of the river wye, which has reached record water levels, and on stretches of the river severn. aside from that, there are still well over 200 flood warnings in force elsewhere in the uk, and it's likely to be a number of days before the floodwaters completely ebb out of the way and those flood warnings start to come down. now, as far as the satellite picture goes, we've got shower clouds working into the uk, but we do have a more organised area of showers i've just drawn in here, and that's going to be crossing the uk, bringing pretty much everyone a downpour or two over the next 2a hours. now, over the next few hours, we do have showers around,
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most frequent across the north—west of the country, and for scotland and northern england, those showers falling as snow, above 200 metres elevation, leading to some icy conditions and the risk of some slippery roads on some of those higher scottish routes as we start the day on tuesday. through the rest of tuesday, it is a showery kind of day but remember that feature i showed you just a moment ago? well, here it is working its way eastward across the country. everyone gets a downpour from that, and when those showers come along, they will be very heavy and accompanied by sudden gusts of wind, so it will get very, very squally. behind that band of showers, we're looking at some colder air working into scotland, northern ireland and northern england. temperatures typically around 5—7 degrees for these areas. now, the winds fall light tuesday night as a ridge builds in, but then we've got more rain on the way mid—week, so after a bright and somewhat chilly start to the day, we've got some thickening cloud and outbreaks of rain that are going to move in for wednesday. the heaviest falls of rain will be from the north
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of wales, northwestwards. however, there is still uncertainty about how heavy the rain is going to be around southern wales. but clearly, this extra rain could cause us some problems so we are keeping a close eye on developments and particularly with regard the flooding situation. now, that warm front moves away and actually things will get warmer and milder overnight with rising temperatures ahead of the next front, which comes through and this is a cold front. now, on thursday, this cold front swings through. again, we'll have some very squally, gusty kind of winds. the rain not lasting too long, but it will be heavy for a time, and behind the cold front, the air gets colder, so again, the showers will be turning increasingly wintry over the higher hills of scotland later on in the day. that's your latest weather. bye for now.
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this is bbc news, the headlines:
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new evidence of china's crackdown on hundreds of thousands from the muslim uighur minority in the western province of xinjiang has been revealed in a leaked document seen by the bbc. it sets out in detail how authorities decided the fate of more than 300 detainees. apple has warned it won't achieve its forecast revenues for this financial quarter because of the coronavirus outbreak. the tech giant says although its factories in china have reopened, they're not yet operating at full capacity. united nations officials are saying the latest government offensive in syria has now displaced almost nine hundred thousand people —— offensive in syria has now displaced almost 900,000 people since december. it has created a new humanitarian crisis in the region. in a rare public address, president assad has insisted his military campaign will continue — despite the impact on his own people.
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