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this is deja vu news live from berlin boris johnson's conservatives winning an outright majority in the u.k. election. with this mandate and this majority will at last good will to do all. of that. but just johnson celebrating at party headquarters before heading to number 10 downing street to prepare to push his plans for breakfast through the british parliament will have full analysis and look at what this means for the u.k. . and european union leaders or course processing the massive conservatory they're
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planning their own way forward a brussels song that's baxley european commission president's green deal get pledges to make the e.u. carbon neutral in the coming decades. and we'll get a firsthand account of life in china's internment camp for as we go are we were minority inmates there are punished for speaking their own language or subject to abuse and daily knowing. i brought thomas great to have you with us britain's conservatives have won an overall majority in the country's general election decisively ending 3 and a half years of complete political gridlock prime minister boris johnson says his government has been given a powerful new mandate to finally take the. out of the e.u.
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now for the opposition labor party it is an historic defeat after a near wipe out in its traditional heart let's take a look now at the results there's just one seat left to declare the conservatives have a huge my door majority far exceeding that $327.00 seat mark needed to be the biggest party they've also been of course those huge losses for labor the main opposition party the scottish nationalists saw considerable gains the welsh nationals adding a number of seats as well. all was a sleepless night for the prime minister after seeing result to clare at his own constituency he went to conservative party headquarters in london to celebrate with his supporters here's what he told them. with this mandate and this majority we will at last be able to do what. you pay attention. that is this this election means that getting brits done is not the irrefutable
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irresistible. decision of the british people. and with this election i think we put an end to all those middle miserable threats of a 2nd referendum. or joined now live by a corresponding bag of mass in london standing by outside number 10 downing street good morning to you better get with his victory speech a short while ago did did boris johnson manage to touch the right corps accords and convince people to back him in his main goal right now uniting the country. well boris johnson did acknowledge that he has one of a very to sue have never in their life very conservative before particularly in the north of england which was always held store by labor and there were some constituencies where labor has been the ruling party for 100 years and they voted conservative people who have really would not have dreamt of doing this for the 1st
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time in his former working class district johnson acknowledged that he has to govern for the whole country has also many new m.p.'s from these constituencies who are different from the traditional conservative party and whether he will also take them with him when he is actually getting about governing and getting breaks it done and getting through also with his domestic policies that remains to be seen but 1st of all he has acknowledged that there is quite a task at hand you mentioned the boers johnson breaking through the the red wall of you well in the labor strongholds what did boris johnson do to command this type of this kind of victory. well i think there are 2 things i've been myself to the north of england in speaking to people there on the 2 so former labor voters who had really no good words for the labor leader jeremy corbin very colorful language to describe him his left wing policies and particularly his policies on bret's it
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did really not ring in court with these voters that then in contrast boris johnson had this really easy message get bricks it done it sounds like child's play and after 3 years after people really are so fed up with hearing about bricks that this is just something that many voters start it would be very attractive to just get it over and done with of course many critics here say it's not going to be that easy because the whole new relationship with the european union for instance and doesn't have that yet and he has to enter a new negotiation so it won't be over just yet but at least people are hoping that it's going to get quicker they clearly didn't want not want a 2nd referendum so they it's a clear mandate for was johnson and his policy ok and that's going to i imagine be his main priority right now getting bracks a done. that's going to be his main priority he has
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said that even before christmas parliament will sit and then he'll get through his withdrawal agreement with the european union so that will happen as soon as next week then by the end of january the u.k. were relief the european union and in the next period which would stretch until the end of the year he would try and come to an agreement new agreement with the european union security on trade and well flesh out this new relationship that the u.k. will hope to have with the e.u. bigger thanks so much for that. live for us there in front of number 10 downing street. well european union leaders been holding a summit in brussels they are of course processing what the u.k. election results means for the e.u. they've prepared a statement for release that's being expected later today now is expected to call for the box future relationship with london to be as close as possible but bracks it is right now not at the top of the e.u.
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leaders list of priorities at the summit. first suspense. and then a little disappointment journalists in brussels knew the result of the u.k. election means one thing that breaks it most likely will happen. but leaders focused on another topic that might fundamentally transform the e.u. in the years to come it was very interesting to see the lead us and or seeing and supporting. a complex european green deal we've been debating all the opportunity it brings along that debate took almost 10 hours the result of all member states indorsed the goal of the e.u. becoming climate neutral by 2050 but one country did not commit to actually implementing that goal poll that. we agreed to the principle that poland can
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achieve climate neutrality at its own pace she came out to. the reason for this exemption is that poland is heavily reliant on coal and fears the costs of transition to a greener economy the country holding back on a commitment seems like a serious setback to the deal but the german chancellor did not agree it's been holding i'm quite content and if the circumstances just pure does not divide it into different pots we have one member state it needs a little more time to think about how to implement this but we have a good outlook for success the home and often can a flick it was not the outcome these activists had hoped for though before leaders kicked off their meeting they try to create a sense of urgency by bringing fire and smoke to the summit venue it appears that message did make it to everyone inside the building. especially down some of the other stories making news at this hour the u.s.
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has test fired a missile over the pacific that had long been banned under a treaty between the united states and russia the arms treaty was abandoned last summer that amidst deteriorating relations arms control advocates say that the test risks feeling an arms race between the 2 countries. since the u.s. senate has formally recognized the killing of some 1500000 armenians between 19151917 as genocide resolution is expected to anger turkey which is always denied that there was an organized mass murder there and senator robert menendez says the u.s. was quote on the right side of history it commemorates. now it is the largest internment of minorities since world war 2 more than $1000000.00 ethnic we go or muslims are currently locked up in a specially constructed prison system now these prisons are located in china's northwestern region of changing the chinese government has consistently claimed
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that these camps are voluntary reeducation centers to counter extremism but recently released documents known as the china cables while they tell a very different story they show that the camps are run as high security prisons and that inmates inside face abuse and worse in recent years thousands of we gores have fled into exile now many of them had for turkey one woman who says she was trapped in the chinese detention center for more than a year spoke to our correspondent. in istanbul. going for woke with her grandson just a year ago due to how julie nova wouldn't have dreamt it was possible. at the time she was in china in one of the internment camps for a week is for education sent is as the leadership in beijing calls them. who won the. this is from the day i was arrested it states my name my
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birthday to them and that i am a terrorist who is. going to houses the chinese authorities never explained why they thought she was a terrorist. she tells us about the cruel conditions in the camps. about torture. and humiliation you will feel so lucky with a lot of the deployed quite a few of course making week you were locked up in a dark room we also had to write out lines of praise to the chinese communist party every 10 days we had to stick on syria to get an injection we didn't know what it was but the younger women stopped having their periods. or good but that we had to do sit ups in the nude or thought of the. 2 it didn't matter if you were 14 or 84 that's how they violated i will honor the colonel who talked.
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istanbul is home to around 25000 week for example visit in borno district like many have found refuge here some even say that the capital of the week is no longer inching junk but in turkey. in primary school the children of those who fled china a dad would be singing reading writing in their mother tongue. the teachers here say in china that would be impossible for many we go say that ethnic and religious ties with turkey has made building new lives here in istanbul easier for them at 1st glance this neighborhood appears lively bustling but the community has an open secret almost everybody here they say has a relative or friend who has disappeared into one of the camps in china talk of my
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brothers were imprisoned my sister sent to a coward if i get outta are they dead or alive i don't know any more. i haven't had any contact with my family in 5 or 6 years not even a phone call i'm 99 percent sure that they're in the camps or in prison for them and then just 7 that i haven't heard from my family and 5 years. dozens of versions of the same story. for some it's too painful to talk. china's ambassador to turkey admits that some weekers have trouble contacting their families he says steps are being taken. but he rejects reports of human rights violations inching junk. that was out of the education centers are not prisons they are not concentration camps as some media reports say but in fact these places are more like boarding schools and the basic
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human rights and. students are respected part of the truth in which they can contact their families and receive visitors so he in no way have the impression that some media and powers are abusing the subject to cast china's policy in a bad light and just don't also. sees things very differently she would like foreign countries to put more pressure on china she says the horrors she experienced in the camps of ching jiang have changed her and she's speaking up in the hope that others a spat her fate. at. get your top story right now the british prime minister boris johnson has returned to number 10 downing street after his conservative party's victory in the general election and we can work on getting his plans for bracks it through parliament where he now has a large majority. this is the
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