welcome to bbc news, i'm david eades. our top stories: the uyghur children separated from their parents, why china still won't reveal their whereabouts. the world health organization announces its setting up a hub in south africa to help poorer nations produce their own covid—19 vaccines. australia's great barrier reef is described as in very poor condition, and its world heritage status is under threat. also coming up, how a us supreme court ruling on the rights of student athletes to earn a living from their sports could shake—up the billion dollar college sports industry.

hello and welcome. the bbc has been investigating the plight of thousands of children believed to have been separated from their parents as a result of china's treatment of its uyghur population. beijing has denied that uyghur families are being deliberately split up, but reports have consistently emerged of uyghurs being forced into internment camps, women being sterilised and the use of forced labour. reporting from taiwan, here's our china correspondent jon sudworth. these mothers are marching for their missing children back home in xinjiang. walking almost 300 miles across turkey where they now live to highlight the years of silence from china. i want them to let me see them, kalbina tells me. in this information age, why can't i contact my children?

two years ago, in a meeting hall in istanbul, in dozens of similar accounts, uighurs from xinjiang told us how they'd lost all contact with the children. do you know where your children are now? so where are these children? shown that testimony, the chinese ambassador in london at the time denied the claims but promised to investigate. if you have people got their children lost, you give me names. with our interviewees�* permission, we sent him the names. in 2016, fearing china would force her to have an abortion, kalbina left xinjiang to give birth to her youngest daughter, mersier. little did she know the camps designed to replace ethnic identity with loyalty to the communist party were being built

on a massive scale. having relatives overseas was one sign of suspicion, so contact with the outside world simply stopped. kalbina's husband was detained, and she hasn't seen him, or herfive older children, since. except for this. the video she discovered online formed in a school hundreds of miles from the family home. i'm sure it's my daughter, she told me. a claim china dismisses as a lie, although it hasn't provided any proof. after the promised to investigate, uk embassy officials confirmed receipt of art documents saying they had reported the matter to china. we send follow—up e—mails but were told there was no feedback from beijing. and our requests for comment eventually went unanswered. we also handed over details of the missing relatives to officials in xinjiang including

copies of id cards, again without success. then, one year after his first appearance, the ambassador went on live tv once more. the bbc did provide the chinese embassy with names, and we haven't heard back. i never received any names since our last show. i hope that you can give me the names. we certainly will get back to you. so we renewed our request. where, for example, are kalida's missing sons? are their wives still in the camps? where are her 14 grandchildren? kalida, who lives in kazakhstan, now spends her days protesting outside the chinese consulate. until china gives me information, i will keep coming, she told me. earlier this year liu xiaoming left

the uk with an online farewell reception, and his promise still unmet by the chinese government. no progress, said the latest e—mailfrom his officials. no explanation, for example, as to why this 68—year—old uighur spent 18 months in a camp and why she is now being prevented from travelling to see her daughter who lives in the uk. what do you think the fact that we have heard nothing from them in response might tell us? they are trying to, not to answer, or trying to hide what they're doing. what she has been through in the camp, they don't want her to speak out what's happening in there. after two years of promises to help find the missing, xinjiang's shattered families have been offered only silence. john sudworth, bbc news, taipei.

a little bit later in the bulletin we will be speaking to the vice—chair on international religious freedoms, so do stick around for that. the world health organisation is working with a group of companies to start producing coronavirus vaccines in south africa. the whole continent is facing a shortage, and with a successful transfer of existing technology, south africa could start producing mrna jabs within a year. the country's president, cyril ramaphosa, welcomed the move. it has been shown now that we just cannot continue to rely on vaccines that are made outside of africa, because they never come. they never arrive on time and people continue to die. and we have therefore called on technology transfer. you can hear the frustration - technology transfer. you can hear the frustration of - technology transfer. you can hear the frustration of cyril l hear the frustration of cyril ramaphosa there.

matthew kavanagh is the professor of global health at georgetown university in washington. i asked him why africa has recieved so few vaccines so far. a year ago we saw governments around the world coming together, promising vaccine equity, that vaccines were going to be available to everybody, then come december of last year vaccines are approved but none of that equity actually happened. so now i% of all vaccines have actually reached sub—saharan africa, meanwhile in the wealthy world we are talking about vacations and getting young people and healthy people into vaccination, african countries really don't have enough vaccine and so they've got to take some moves. i wish this had happened months ago but it is really good to see it happening now. right, cyril ramaphosa there talking about technology transfer as critically important, obviously. what is your best guess, then, as to how long it might be before a move like this actually bears fruit? so, what we are seeing overall is, that what the who and the african union are agreeing to do is to work together to make mrna vaccines, which are proving to be by far the most effective vaccines.

study after study is showing that these vaccines are really good at fighting the variants, they are able to do a lot. they are also relatively quick to scale, so the core question of how long it is going to take is, how cooperative are some of the companies out there, right? so, thailand right now is piloting a brand new... crosstalk. sorry to interrupt you, that is the point, isn't it? because there's a lot of good talk and not a huge amount of good action in terms of handing over the necessary. this is what we are worried about, right? now, basically what is happening is that the eu and the world health organization are calling the bluff on countries around the world who have said they will help and of companies around the world. moderna and pfizer, these are companies that have said, no, you can go ahead and make our vaccines but we're not going to patent them, et cetera.

now the question is, they have got the technical know—how, they have a hub they are setting up and they have got the funding. so the core question is, who's going to share the know—how of the technology so it can happen fast? the biden administration, of course, could push moderna to do it, the question is, will they? and that is the bluff that is being called right now by the eu. i suppose you can set up a hub, we have seen in india, for example, the serum institute of india running into problems, partly political, partlyjust sheer volume required in india itself. how many hubs are you going to need across a continent like africa, do you think, for this to have a real effect? right now, we are sitting on a world where there is only a handful of manufacturers, one manufacturer basically for every single vaccine. so this would shift that. this would say, look, we're going to have a hub in south africa, that is sponsored by afrigen and biovac, two companies that are african—based. and they are going to rapidly build mrna vaccine technilogy.

we might well need another hub in senegal, for example. we may also want hubs in latin america and asia. there are companies around the world with the capacity to actually make these vaccines but they so far haven't because of a combination of intellectual property but also becuse of tech transfer, and so the bargain here is, who comes together, these companies are not the only ones who know how to make mrna, will scientists come together and help them make it? will the companies come together and help them make it? they are setting up a hub, you may well see within months, actually, vaccine coming out, and that's the real hope. the australian government has vowed to strongly oppose a recommendation that the country's great barrier reef be listed as �*in danger�*. unesco has published a draft decision which could threaten the reefs world heritage status. the un agency says the reefs condition has deteriorated from poor to very poor, citing widespread coral bleaching, and it's called for more action from the australian government to address the effects of climate change. earlier i spoke to our reporter

courtney bembridge. the environment minister susan ley said she was blindsided by the decision and it came out of nowhere and was a backflip on previous assurances that this step would not be taken. she said that she will strongly oppose this all the way through. the unesco report does cite that there are water quality targets that were not met for the reef and that is the reason behind this decision. it's funny because it's almost counterintuitive, isn't it? you would think if it has gone from poor to very poor it's even more important to keep it on the world heritage list in terms of its protection, so i imagine the australian government sees something behind this, not least with, i think, china will be chairing the meeting where a final decision may be taken? that's right, there has been some suggestion that this may be some kind of retaliation, of course australia called for an independent

enquiry into the origins of covid—i9 that upset china and there has been an intensifying row between the two countries. but it is worth noting there are 21 members of unesco, so all of those countries are behind a decision like this and many say that there has been a move for many years within unesco to link a country's climate policies, and we know that australia's climate policies haven't changed since 2015 and that the prime minister scott morrison has been reticent to sign up to a net zero 2050 target, so unesco has been trying for many years to link the climate policies to the heritage sites within a country and this could just be down to that, so many are saying it may notjust be political tensions but certainly china does play a big role in unesco. lets put the politics aside for a minute, we're looking at some wonderful pictures of corals, but of course coral bleaching is a very real issue. is there anything that can be done about it? is it getting worse? climate change has been acknowledged by the australian government and scientists as the number one threat to the reef and with that comes coral

bleaching because you have got rising sea temperatures which causes this phenomenon. there have been five serious mass coral bleaching events in the past three years, the most severe were in 2020 and 2016 so they are very recent and they are getting worse and scientists say that will continue to happen unless global action is taken to tackle climate change, but of course unesco would like australia to take more decisive action first, and hope that that may make, play a small part in addressing this and trying to secure the future of the reef. stay with us on bbc news. we know that vikings travel far and wide, so as they celebrate the euros, we will speak to one american supporter of their

diaspora. members of the neo—nazi resistance movement stormed the world trade centre, armed with pistols and shotguns. we believe that, according to international law, that we have a rightful claim to certain parts of this country as our land. i take pride in the words "ich bin ein berliner". cheering and applause. as the uk woke up to the news that it is to exit the european union, leave campaigners began celebrating. in total, 17.4 million people voted for the uk to leave the eu. the medical research council have now advised the government that the great increase in lung cancer is due mainly to smoking tobacco. it was closing time for checkpoint charlie which, for 29 years, has stood on the border as a mark of allied determination to defend the city.

this is bbc news, the latest headlines: the bbc has uncovered new claims that children from china's uyghur minority have been separated from their parents by chinese officials. let's stay with that story now. i'm joined by nury turkel who is the vice chair at the united states commission on international religious freedom. ijust wonder, given i just wonder, given the ijust wonder, given the record over the last couple of years in terms of ageing's response to the allegations regarding the uyghur community, whether you feel any progress at all is made in getting to the truth of this. , ., ., ., ~ i. this. first of all, thank you very much _ this. first of all, thank you very much for— this. first of all, thank you very much for covering - this. first of all, thank you | very much for covering this incredibly heart—wrenching story that many media organisations and governments have not been covering or

talking about enough. the chinese government statement shows they have intention to break their lineage, break uyghur roots and break uyghurs connections and uyghurs origin. the story you just tested about broken families speaks to that fact so it's not because what we are saying is happening and the uyghurs' homeland, xinjiang, that uyghurs' call east turkestan, but it is what the chinese is telling the public and contradicting the research. so we have made some progress, governmentally, societally, as far as the community is concerned that there is a lot to be done. the international community has been tepid and meandering in their responses. only a handful of governments including the united states, uk and others have publicly taken a position and imposed certain measures...

sorry to interrupt you. do you have any confidence that that will change and that there will be a concerted international effort to force china's and here? it effort to force china's and here? . , effort to force china's and here? ., , ., , effort to force china's and here? .,, ., , .,, here? it has to be, there has to be a way _ here? it has to be, there has to be a way to _ here? it has to be, there has to be a way to make - here? it has to be, there has to be a way to make them i here? it has to be, there has i to be a way to make them stop. i think the international community so far, led by the united states and our partners and allies particularly in europe, are doing the right thing calling the chinese out for these evil policies and the atrocities committed against vulnerable and ethnic religious minorities. at the same time, we are going after their economic interests. specifically the technology aspect, the chinese using technology to advance, and intensify its criminal acts against uyghur people. there is no country around the world that treats the muslims the way the chinese does and there is no country around the world

that uses ai for racial profiling so we have to focus on chinese economic interests, technological in loose interests and global image, those other three things they care deeply about.— those other three things they care deeply about. third point, ulobal care deeply about. third point, global image- _ care deeply about. third point, global image. you _ care deeply about. third point, global image. you are - care deeply about. third point, global image. you are an - care deeply about. third point, l global image. you are an ardent supporter of the boycott of the beijing winter olympics. yes. beijing winter olympics. yes, that needs — beijing winter olympics. yes, that needs to _ beijing winter olympics. yes, that needs to be _ beijing winter olympics. yes, that needs to be done. - beijing winter olympics. yes, that needs to be done. first l beijing winter olympics. 1913 that needs to be done. first of all, we have to relocate the olympics to a country that does not commit genocide. if we don't have enough time to do that, we could postpone it, as the tokyo summer olympics has been, and also if these two methods don't work, i think the civilised work should break off diplomatically. we civilised work should break off diplomatically.— diplomatically. we will wait to see if that _ diplomatically. we will wait to see if that would _ diplomatically. we will wait to see if that would happen - see if that would happen because there is no sign of huge move in that direction. i just want to touch on one very personal point for you because this is a personal story to you, for your own bringing. yes, i was born in a re—education camp during the height of the cultural revolution. it seems to me

there is no escape for me and my fellow uyghurs around the world from the chinese operation. this has been ongoing, repressive policies, as far as i can remember, as long as i have been breathing. the international community must take an action effectively or individually to stop this madness. or individually to stop this madnes— or individually to stop this madness. ., ~ , ., , . madness. thank you very much indeed for _ madness. thank you very much indeed forjoining _ madness. thank you very much indeed forjoining us. _ college sport in the us is a massive business. it's worth billions of dollars and attracts huge crowds. the us college system soaks up most of that revenue, and imposes strict limits on what student athletes this are allowed to make. but now the supreme court has declared the athletes should get a bigger slice of the income. our north america correspondent, david willis, has more. college sports is very popular here, they rake in billions of dollars in sport

for colleges, countries, and the ncaa, the national collegiate athletic association, the sports governing body, but the stars themselves, the sportspeople themselves are deemed amateurs and so they are entitled to scholarships but not to pay. well, this decision by the united states supreme court, the highest court in the land, doesn't directly pave the way for these amateur athletes to be paid, but it does open the door to them receiving additional educational benefits, so colleges, in an attempt to woo these athletes, kind of offer them under this ruling such things as education equipment, internships, computers, study abroad programmes and so on but the feeling is, that the dam has been broken here, as far as the process of recompense

in amateur athletes in this country is concerned. the feeling is that this will lead to further legal challenges to come in the months ahead. i was wondering what the ncaa actually makes of this ruling. how are they interpreting it? well, it's very interesting, actually, because they issued a statement which was basically taking this very much in our stride, saying the ncaa looks forward to working with congress to reform this process going forward, but the ncaa is currently criticised in a number of bills that numbers of congress are considering, and it was spelt out, really, in the ruling ofjustice brett kavanaugh, one of the supreme courtjudges, who wrote, "the ncaa has built a massive moneymaking enterprise on the backs of student athletes who are not fairly compensated, a feeling then that this is an organisation that runs itself as a business but has thrived because of this notion of amateurism and that is something that has to come to an end."

david, very tight on time but it's important to let viewers know, if you are a coach in the college system, if you are one of the commissioners, one of the bigwigs, what can you expect to pick up? you know what, the president of the ncaa is known to be paid about $4 million a year. if you are a football you can be pocketing $11 million onto the euro's now and the plight of the danish team, with their talisman christian eriksen�*s cardiac arrest and then having to play a game so soon after he collapsed on the pitch, has grabbed the attention of sports fans around the world. none more so than danish fans in the united states.

let's cross to berea, kentucky now and speak to sune frederiksen. sune was born in denmark, and is a former youth soccer coach. meant scene it's just fantastic, i haven't seen anything like this before. going from the collapse, it's just a national tragedy and today became a national triumph for the danes all over the world. this was something everyone wanted to see, apart from the russians. that is a fair point. i had a sense that maybe it was all slipping away a little bit of denmark, so it is quite a turnaround. it was. it's 'ust is quite a turnaround. it was. it's just amazing _ is quite a turnaround. it was. it'sjust amazing how- is quite a turnaround. it was. it'sjust amazing how you - is quite a turnaround. it was. it'sjust amazing how you can it's just amazing how you can get your team together, and my kudo �*s to the national coach for bringing the team up to such a high level internationally, top—notch level. in such a short time.

the payers dusted fantastically. it was a glorious day for denmark, and the third goal that was scored by the chelsea defender, andres christensen, wasjust by the chelsea defender, andres christensen, was just amazing. you got the result. can ijust ask you, you're not the only dane out there in kentucky prepared to wear the hat and the t—shirt? i prepared to wear the hat and the t-shirt?_ the t-shirt? i do it for you. and for— the t-shirt? i do it for you. and for the _ the t-shirt? i do it for you. and for the national- the t-shirt? i do it for you. and for the national pride, | and for the national pride, there is no doubt about that. there are few danes in kentucky but we don't see many of them here. we are a little group that get together on and off and we have a danish american friendship association flag here so we do get together and have a carlsberg here now and then. ., ., then. no more advertising, lease. then. no more advertising, please- i — then. no more advertising, please. ijust _ then. no more advertising, please. ijust mask- then. no more advertising, please. ijust mask -- -

then. no more advertising, please. ijust mask -- i - then. no more advertising, | please. ijust mask -- ijust please. ijust mask —— ijust mask —— ijust must ask you, against all the odds, back then, but how car park and you go this time?— then, but how car park and you go this time? they had some big names back _ go this time? they had some big names back then _ go this time? they had some big names back then on _ go this time? they had some big names back then on the - go this time? they had some big names back then on the team i go this time? they had some big l names back then on the team and they are very strong, a physical team. they are very strong, a physicalteam. denmark they are very strong, a physical team. denmark is more of a technical team with a lot of a technical team with a lot of good positioning. i root for denmark, and i think they had it to you right now, and they have a magnificent opportunity. i have all the respect that they got as far as they did, so that's fantastic. i they got as far as they did, so that's fantastic.— that's fantastic. i am sure you feel that it's _ that's fantastic. i am sure you feel that it's time _ that's fantastic. i am sure you feel that it's time wales i that's fantastic. i am sure you | feel that it's time wales found out and denmark leon. good to see you, loving the hat, best of luck in the next round.

thank you. that is all football can do, turn you into a mad fanatic. . , �* �* can do, turn you into a mad fanatic. ., , �* �* , fanatic. that is bbc news. in 04 watching. _ monday was the summer solstice, but for some places, including parts of southeast england, it was colder than the winter solstice. this was the picture as we ended the day in pontypridd, south wales, so quite a lot of cloud around there. through the course of the night, though, the cloud has tended to break up a little bit. so, tuesday, it will be a drier day in the south, certainly compared to what we had on monday. and for most places, some spells of sunshine around. low pressure that brought monday's rain will be slowly clearing away towards the south. we have got another weather front approaching from the north—west. before it gets there, though, a lot of clear and dry weather. quite a chilly start to the day, single figures in the north. in fact, those temperatures close to freezing in a few rural glens in scotland,

so perhaps even a touch of frost to start the day. but tuesday morning, for most of us, it is dry, it is bright with some sunshine. cloudier for the southeast of england and east anglia. a few spots of rain for the likes of kent and sussex which should clear away through the day. so, light winds, not particularly warm for the time of year — temperatures around the east coast around about 15 to 17 degrees. 20 degrees or so towards cardiff. northern ireland and western scotland through the evening, and overnight into wednesday, thatjust spills its way a little bit further south. so it won't be quite as cold as we start the day on wednesday, but the lowest temperatures will be across parts of southern and southeast england first thing. so, through wednesday, then, we've got this warm front slowly pushing south, bringing quite a lot of low cloud, mist, murk and drizzly rain, but towards the south, it's going to be a fine, dry day on wednesday. so, sunshine holding on for southern england, east anglia as well. further north, we have got more in the way of cloud, a few spots of drizzly rain coming out of this cloud

for some places as well. temperatures getting up to about 20—22 degrees where you do see the sunshine. typically the high teens where you are stuck under the cloud, towards the north and north—west. into thursday, again, we've got a weather front that's a bit more active this time across western scotland, perhaps parts of northern ireland also seeing some fairly heavy rain on thursday, slowly slipping its way south. i think much of england and wales holding onto some dry weather, variable amounts of cloud. 20—22 degrees in the south, but the mid—to—high teens further north. bit of a mixed picture as we look towards the end of the week. most of us see some drier and eventually some slightly warmer weather too as we head towards the weekend. still, one or two showers around on friday. bye— bye.

this is bbc news, the headlines: the bbc has uncovered new claims that children from china's uyghur minority have been separated from their parents by chinese officials. both the uk and the us have accused china of violating human rights as reports emerge of uyghurs being forced into internment camps and women being sterilised. south africa is to set up the continent's first covid—19 vaccine production facility, as president cyril ramaphosa said africa now understood that doses would never come from elsewhere in time to save lives. the project will take time to get started, no vaccines are expected until next year. voting has been taking place in ethiopia's general election, billed as a major test of the country's new democracy. prime minister abiy ahmed has told the bbc there is no hunger in the war—torn tigray province, but admitted there are problems, and the government was capable of fixing them.