there are 2 but closer. if you have prior quarter of a jump you saw those were both girls with blood. but. we're just learning this is old news reel. this is news asia coming up design tool is a citizen in india the border state of it's on the about to publish a register of citizens people didn't live there for decades are worried they will become stateless plots. when your father becomes a target of the chinese state we talked to the son the beleaguered intellectual rosie.

i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia thanks for joining us it's a list that decides who is indian called the national register of citizens it was 1st created nearly 70 years ago and a 3 year push for an update is almost done those efforts have been concentrated in the eastern state of. the government says its aim is to weed out illegal immigrants from neighboring bangladesh. but any flaws in the system can have far reaching repercussions for genuine indians some whose families migrated over from the indian state of west bengal activists say that most likely to be impacted are muslims they fear being left off the final list and becoming stateless while demand for such a register of citizens has been a longstanding it gained steam once prime minister modi and his hindu nationalist party came to power in 2014. travelled to some to find out

more. sharjah how early a mammoth task he has to reassure thousands of his fellow residents of assam that they want to be sticklers so. this family was recently left off the dark match to the gist of citizens or n.r.c. . it's a government that identifies long term residents of india and exclude schools considered illegal immigrants from bangor there's. sharjah who is frank telling them the chances of making it onto the foreign list are slim they would have to appeal a decision against them. they're going to be one of the government we don't have enough money to go to the tribunals my father is a daily wage labor our financial condition isn't good we have a lot of money worries. sharjah have works tirelessly to help those excluded understand the people working through the appeals process. it isn't simply the

financial burden that weighs on these families. it is also an emotional drain to have to prove something that hard to find their identity. down. here for all my ancestors were indians how can i be bangladeshi this is why i'm so saddened by this it's very difficult for me to fight these cases. and c. in this effort to help sharjah has dealt with countless painful starting with. the 1st was in his own home. they thought everything was in order. but 30 out of $33.00 members of his family were left off the draft and r.c. already they have spent thousands of rupees to attend hearings on the question that preoccupies those excluded is what would become of them sharjah who wonders if

indian authorities would create a village of so-called foreigners make them 2nd class citizens or perhaps even strip there are certain traits and only grant work permits. medals in india and that i am a genuine indian my grandfather is an indian my father was born here i was born here why would we accept this there will be protests. critics of the n.r.c. have said it would heavily target bengali speaking muslims on the assumption that they are from bangladesh a muslim majority country. yet many of those excluded and draft lists are migrants from the indian state of west bengal. the nationalist b.g.p. government insists this is a way to oust illegal bangladeshi immigrants not genuine and. they hear articulate this liberty we need the n.r.c. because many illegal bangladeshi intruders have entered who fired up.

as a result the rights and identities of the indigenous people of assam have been threatened i don't get to get a compromise on the level the stories on the ground show otherwise for many people here and our pill bottle is only just beginning for those left off the final list of citizens this may well be the last resort for new tribunals like the so on are being set up a process the state field appears from those who have been excluded and they were the party to reverse these exclusions. people can ultimately take them out on louis to the supreme court but such a lead in the appeals process is challenging. will get a good lawyer or do they need resources they need money and most of the people below who are struggle of the society for them it will be hard to gather that resources to fight the legal battle. in homes across assam there is only one thing

left to do. we. as the government finalizes the names of those who deserve to be indian a core identity of millions hangs in the balance. china has come under a lot of scrutiny and pressure over its detention about 1000000 people in its far western territory of. as a reminder the vast majority of those held have been weaker as an ethnic muslim minority beijing claims the group harbors fundamentalist separatists and terrorists in some cases that has been true but not according to governments and human rights organizations around the world for the vast majority of wiggers in fact not only have chinese officials gone after ordinary people they have systematically gone after weaker intellectuals' artists and writers it appears to be

a strategy to break their cultural identity here's a closer look at one case. if you want to crush a culture you come for people like you see. this now is this closest family can get to him. my father was. just being a normal weaver intellectual trying to preserve our culture but before all this after their arrival of office party secretary everything changed a gifted poet an intellectual the earned praise for promoting the weaker culture and its people in chinese society than in 2800 he was arrested and sent to prison. just since the appointment of this new party secretary of really turned to full scale oppression and full scale amazing operatic kind of 5 years that they don't like the new secretary is this man the most senior communist party official in

xinjiang province he helped to oversee a suffocating crackdown on muslim leaders a turkish minority up to $1000000.00 of them are held in reeducation camps the chinese government says it's driving out religious extremism. human rights activists say it amounts to cultural and ethnic cleansing. it's extraordinary that china is effectively getting away with arbitrarily detaining a 1000000 turkic muslims and not really paying a price for it rarely do we have the luxury to say anything at all and i'm trying to let the world know that my father is not some. people that this. trying to support the government pays just normal we were people decently good people that's just trying to preserve our culture and our quits. for years

rosie's writing gave voice to the weaker people now he's lost his his son is determined to find it. we have couple of turkey in the sun in the report you just saw joining us from the united states your father is in prison and you haven't been able to hear from him at all is that correct yes my father was taken into prison back in october 2016 and i was not able to fire back from them since. and usually if someone has a family member in prison you can still visit them but that's not what's going on in china is it no that's not what's going on in china after my father's other single arrest we told every phone number that people all equal family vehicle friends vehicle anyone that we might have a link with the government that would help us to find about there where my father was locked up that we couldn't even know where my father was locked up or lower

than a year she was held in a state secret location or more than a year and. not to mention talking to families we don't get we didn't even know where she was at that sign for more than a year and so when you think about that how does it feel i mean how has it been for you and your family. so when i think about it was a devastating. it has ever stating a fact in my family when my father initially arrested we as i said we didn't know where he was be to know about condition and for the most part we don't know what will he be charged with although my father is all in the eyes of the government government chinese government he was already convicted before his arrest arrest we didn't know what kind of flight charges or sentences will there be or my father. not knowing what's happening not knowing why happening that is very devastating

thing for us and after my father because my father was the. one who was supporting us financially after my father's arrest i had to halt lie on the plans to support my family so my dreams dreams to get into medical school for now it's on an old and. so our life has changed so much after my father's arrest how would you characterize what's happening to the people in change to we there's and other ethnic minorities there. reckon a right no a day is what's happening in our region it amounts to ethnic cleansing in my views and in the views of so many others because when we talk about ethnic cleansing we might think that they are the government is systematically eradicating people or killing people off but in this case the people are taken into concentration camps and when they all know they are not like physically destroyed right but when they.

but they are not coming out coming out from these camps and if they if the few lucky people come from camps no local not not long after they come out they are dying we heard reports of that and most of them are not no longer mentally stable they are not like normal functioning human beings after they come out from these camps so although they are not physically destroyed but they are mentally destroyed and no longer. able mentally able like normal functioning human beings and i think that also could you know could categorize the behavior as should and should be categorized as ethnic cleansing come on thank you. that's it for now we leave you with pictures of protests by the beleaguered i asked

around the world i think speak out against china's detention and surveillance policy thanks for watching we'll see you next time and good bye. to. come back from the adventures of the famous naturalist and explorer. to celebrate an alexander from the worlds in 250 years barring on the 4 inch of discovery. expedition in boyd to. the quiet melody resounds michael lighten the mood. and

ensued repeat resonate with a new song. the mind and the music. being told in 1st 12019 from september 6th to september 29th. much china is rolling out its social credit system experts warn foreign firms to watch out constant surveillance and tough sanctions doing business in china is set to get even trickier. by blacklisting weiwei the us risks getting left behind in the race to build the next generation of high speed internet networks. and 400 years on could the u.s. have become a. globes talk the economy without the transatlantic slave trade. been physical and it's stupid. to confess on 2019 from september 6th to

september 29th. china is rolling out its social credit system experts one part firms to watch out constant surveillance and tough sanctions doing business in china is set to get even trickier. by blacklisting huawei the u.s. risks getting left behind in the race to build the next generation of high speed internet networks. and 400 years on could the u.s. have become the globe's talk the economy without the transatlantic slave trade. been physical and its new business critics call it a life or death writing program china's social credit system which it's expanding this year to include companies both foreign and domestic have to install

surveillance cameras in their premises and share the data with the government also be rated on their tax records and comply it's a system that has many firms boot. a traffic light with facial recognition cross on red face a public shaming and loose social credit points in some chinese cities it's already a reality even those who sort their trash incorrectly have to reckon with point deductions in some places as well as the penalties for low scores like losing the right to ride the fast train the point system is scheduled for full implementation across china by the end of 20.