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in german why not learn with him simple online on your mobile and free to set the w.c. learning course nikos free german made easy. visited every news live from led more than a million muslims forced into chinese reeducation camps human rights groups describe the detentions as a form of ethnic cleansing d.w.b. it's a former inmates who fled to neighboring kazakhstan also on the program. fears of more and see migrants on rest in eastern germany a small time shaken after
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a man dies in a fight with two afghans far articles thousands of demonstrators missed out on some strict. general election leaves the country's two main political blocs in a dead heat and sees a surge in support for the anti immigration far. i'm phil guy welcome to the program. united nations' new human rights chief has called on china to allow money says to investigate allegations of large scale and detention of muslim minorities the allegations which michelle bash let describes as deeply disturbing appear in a report published today by human rights watch it says more than a million muslims have been detained in so-called reeducation camps in china's north west since jan jan region details of the internment system are emerging
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slowly because the chinese government controls access to the area but the w correspondent matisse budget has traveled to neighboring kazakhstan to talk to witnesses. summer han is a former inmate of a chinese reeducation camp he got out of the internment facility in march and is now in kazakhstan it is an important day for him he's meeting a team from amnesty international to speak out about his experiences. we had to sing for hours. songs like without the communist party there would be no new china. most of the songs praising mao tse tung. and were forced to repeat slogans about the greatness of president xi jinping and what a great place china is to live in. but some are honasan ethnic because it was born in china where large numbers of cause us have
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disappeared into camps along with members of the muslim ethnic minorities the official just a few cation combating religious extremism it's all brainwashing for them to accept that you are chinese so you have that it's a national unity it's size to make you feel you are part of the nation you don't need to keep your own ethnic identity is just really like ethnic cleansing practice because a whore for a ts have worn summer han of the long arm of chinese authorities but he wants his voice to be heard. they need to have the courage to tell the truth if we don't share our stories of what's going on then who will come that's why i'm speaking out in the songs by. someone hundreds in march in the city around three hundred kilometers from the chinese border if you from
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a detainee's have made it. we do not know exactly how many people are being detained at these camps international organizations estimate that the. but exceeds one million there are no verdicts and no sentences release is entirely at the whim of the camp administration. many causes have links to china and many have relatives in the camps just saying the wrong word can lead to detention. for many inmates the only hooper in these comes from amnesty's efforts on their behalf. this man was arrested on a business trip. i don't even know if he is still alive. my son is twelve. he asked me where his father is every day even his teacher has started asking questions. from
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across the border has become scars for muslims in china any contact with their relatives was simply too dangerous. on occasions concerning those kind of psychos in a report from human rights watch wolfgang a butler is from that organization welcome to day doubly so how long have these camps been in existence how widespread do you believe them to be so these camps have come into existence in two thousand and sixteen and. i mean a new party secretary took over. which was former working in tibet and he was mostly responsible for setting up these camps and he is the king now of about one million people who are in these camps and this is a big amount of people when you see that you have fifteen million people in there so the chinese government says dozens of people were killed in attacks by weaker
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separatists in that region jan twenty thirty and thirty forty they say these camps the radicalization centers which sounds not unreasonable i mean that's right and there were terrorist attacks a few years ago but this is no reason to detain people in these camps and i would just say to the chinese government that they should let us in have a look at these camps we have no existence and so if they think and these are open cans then please let's us defenders in. and that's money two of the two asian there so if this is not to count radicalization what do you believe the purpose of these comes to be we think this is a pretty good means and to get under control these areas since young men and to get more and more influence by the chinese government into this region so any kind of dissent in any kind of different religious belief should be eradicated and the whole area should be under control of the chinese government so you believe that
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this is not about religion this is about the chinese government seeing a distinct ethnic identity in trying to eradicate it you know to for them to maintain their control of the region basically this is about political domination we have seen these already now the next region is and this is very very very ng and for the people affected and they are really in trouble in the country there beijing accuses human rights watch your organization of being full of prejudice against it . of course you're not i mean we are applying international human rights standards and this should be china's government also to do so we document torture in these camps for document much treatment the document obvious cherry arrests in this stems from witnesses which we've interviewed some of them were in these camps or family members of the forgive me for interrupting but we're running out of time. the chinese government is clearly not interested in listening to what you have to say so who then do you want to do what about this that's
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a very good question and we think the u.n. has to step up its efforts there and have to make this a topic in the human rights council and beyond you know the germany very in berlin who's taking over as you did in the security council in two thousand and eighteen nineteen should step up its efforts to bring this on the agenda and also the communities that excite communities not get support from governments with a living good story thanks for joining us from a human rights watch the thank you. turn now to some of the other stories making news around the world the un's humanitarian chief as warm as a syrian government offensive in the region could lead to the worst humanitarian disaster of this century syrian forces backed by russian aircraft are seeking to retake it the last major rebel stronghold in syria there is home to be three million people. the u.s. government has ordered the closure of the palestinian diplomatic mission in washington the trumpet ministration says it made the decision because of
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palestinians refusal to enter into a peace talks with israel palestinian leaders have expressed outrage hundreds have protested in the west bank against an earlier decision by united states to cut funding for hospitals in jerusalem it's a constant. least six people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the somali capital mogadishu authorities say a car laden with explosives round a security checkpoint at a local government office is actors played by the al-shabaab is the news group. now eastern germany's been on edge after violent anti migrant protests gripped the city of candids two weeks ago but fears that more unrest would break out on sunday proved to be unfounded a man died after a confrontation with two afghan migrants in the town of curt's and about one hundred fifty kilometers southwest of berlin two and a half thousand protesters full of the call of far right groups to gather for
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a march but a post mortem show the man died of acute heart failure and not of his injuries the afghan men have been taken into police custody. keratin is in mourning but there's not only grief here there's anger to this man furious he told a camera crew to start filming him in the sun. on saturday evening two groups apparently clashed in this small eastern town two afghans were arrested and a german man dies a friend of his is still coming to terms with what happened. when the old he was a good person was always very quiet but it's dreadful terrible that he died so young. on the side of the storm with the. demands death sparked calls on social media for a protest police say some twenty five hundred people took part in the march among
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them older residents and members of the far right alternative for germany party police say four to five hundred demonstrators have links to the extreme right the mayor has called for calm. told the people of curtain there's a big far right presence here do not join in with that some residents misunderstood my words and thought the mayor was telling them they could not speak out or join the protest. people calmly took part in the vigil and for them that's a good thing a woman with us well. it's not clear exactly what transpired an argument broke out between the two afghans and the german national who later died of a heart attack he had a history of heart disease police say one of the afghans should have been deported the other had a residence permit politicians are keen to avoid comparisons with the nearby city of kenneth's where the death last month of
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a german man led to far right protests as in curtin next tree might maybe my supporters over the internet. not really. of course we're aware of how far right groups operate on a national level and how they are able to react so quickly we will adapt our plans accordingly. and. more demonstrations are planned in canton police approached him in force minutes from across germany. both of sweden's main political blocs have failed to secure majorities in sunday's general election but the country's far right has recorded major gains the ruling center left social democrats and their allies took forty point six percent of the vote just know the center right alliance to manage forty point three the populist sweden democrats have surged in third place taking seventeen point six percent the far right party hopes to become kingmaker in any ruling coalition of both centrist
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blocks have declared that they will not work with their with the populists. this man jimmy orcus on has given his party rooted in white supremacy a respectable face and sweet talk to disgruntled voters away from sweden's political center. do you know what friends of sweden they said on t.v. that it's hard to declare a winner of this election i know he's won the sweden democrats. in a small country that's accepted nearly half a million asylum seekers since two thousand and twelve orcus runs messages resonated with those skeptical of immigration and the political establishment incumbent prime ministers define loaf and center left coalition only barely defeated the opposition center right alliance a sign of the fence says it's time to toss out the bloc system that's defined swedish politics for decades. if using is no side has
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a clear majority it's only natural that we will have to work across the political divide to make it possible to govern sweden so regardless of the final election results this will be the death of block politics. but his invitation to the center right to engage in cross party talks has so far fallen on deaf ears the head of the opposition is calling on to resign that leaves two sides in a virtual dead heat after the vote without a majority neither bloc says it will work with a strong third place finisher that has near nazi roots zimbabwe has sworn in its new government the new finance minister says they will accelerate plans to repay the country's debt. is a former vice head of the african development bank he said he planned to reintroduce the zimbabwean dollar which was abandoned ten years ago when the rule of robert mugabe after the economy spiraled out of control the southern african
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country of an adopted the u.s. dollar and other foreign currencies are still couldn't stave off a cash crisis at the newly elected president times and not god says reviving the country's ruined economy is his top priority i'll have more for you at the top of the hour ben facility will be here in just a moment with your business update a result good day. i've been trying to be going on and clearing speech and. don't miss this story for jobless patient johnson takes you along on a thrilling and boom.

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