this is the w.'s line for berlin china's mistreatment of its muslim minority weekers those documents exposes china's big lie that the weavers are simply attending vocational training camps i didn't use investigation seems to confirm what the world has long suspected that the weavers are being imprisoned simply because they are muslim also coming up a fresh fruit to stop the brutal civil war in libya the european union agrees to renu in naval mission and forcing the u.n.

arms embargo but will it be enough. on the rise again china reports an increase in the number of people infected with the coronavirus after 2 days of an apparent drop in new cases almost 90 percent of the new infectious in the city of la. thank you so much for joining us everyone we begin with an s. of investigation by g.w. news that has confirmed what china's camps housing my know how minority weaker muslims are not engaging in fighting extremism as the government claims the camps are being used to imprison people simply because they're weaker the united nations believes as many as 1000000 weekers are being held at camps in change and province . well chinese authorities claim the people in the camps are there voluntarily and

that they're receiving vocational training to improve their skills and help fight extremism but d.-w. nears and his german media partners andy are. there the air and the daily sudar chat site don't have evidence that contradicts that narrative and confirms what many have long suspected that china is imprisoning weekers on the grounds of their religion and culture now me conrad of w.'s investigative unit reports. terrorism and i would never have found out that my sister isn't it come without this least a lugger going up to look at the boy the moment. it's a detail of the surveillance document it's extremely likely that this is authentic yes it's the dress but someone should tell the world what's going on. is stunned by. the wall. these men now we get muslims

from china back home they could be imprisoned for the simple act of praying like quickly come to realize that each one of them has a story of loss. of. the fascist chinese government wants to eliminate the weaker people of st john the entire population of john right in front of the eyes of the world. we ask them to raise their hands if they have family members who've been imprisoned in china's province where most weekends live. across 10 john dozens of camps holding up to a 1000000 we give. let's take a closer look at one of them this is a reeducation camp next to the prison. we identified watchtowers and hi bill. that countless camps

like this one the chinese government claims they are fallen tree vocational training centers designed to fight we stream it. too but we received a document which shows that china's targeting week is based on their identity and religion it lists hundreds of detainees and the reasons for their detention are. by force the weaker academic up to we are you perceived it from a source and took a huge risk sharing it with us. our. january 8 are

you see with the phone call like it's messenger call and. he said that stop doing this and the b. can reach you there were you are yes it's the dress but someone. should take the danger someone should speak up someone should tell the world what's going on. the document doesn't have any stamp or signature we showed it to several experts who agreed that it is almost certainly an official text. me it contains an enormous amount of extremely specific. data from one very small community in inch and john and that. it would take an immense amount of effort and access to publicly on available data to fabricate a document like this in this neighborhood in istanbul where many we live we met one

woman whose sister some mentioned on the list. but in news that talked to news some family members had been imprisoned but it shocked her when she found out that her younger sister was listed in the document calling back yet awhile. i was really sad for days i couldn't sleep. i was really shocked. and sad about her arrest. like a don't call them. china says it's fighting extremism but talked he says her younger sister wasn't religious her only crime she had too many children well i'm all of them i heard that the conditions in prison are unimaginably bad they don't even have enough food to eat oh well almost all are well. she doesn't know if her relatives have

been released like countless other the leaders they have been caught up in china's all encompassing antiterrorism drive. and that report by naomi your current from investigative unit and now me is here with me are very disconcerting revelations this document was leaked to w. news walk us through some of the steps that you took to verify the authenticity of documents sure so we're right we received some $140.00 pages in chinese a p.d.f. document with no seal or stamp so the 1st thing we did obviously was translate some of it to figure out what this was actually about and then we showed it to several of the leading experts on the history and weak of politics all said it was most likely authentic a lot of what is in this list correlates with what we've heard already the next step was to try and find relatives because obviously we couldn't travel to change and we couldn't get hold of people there because it's impossible to contact people

that and itself would put them in danger so we managed to find some of the relatives i talked to some of the relatives of these people on the list and then what we also did is that we looked at several of the counts that are mentioned in the lists of these people are sent to the so-called reeducation camps we managed to verify them using governmental chinese governmental bids also satellite images so we're pretty sure that we verified 2 of the camps and most likely located 2 other camps so we are pretty sure that this is an authentic document what do we learn about the fate of the detainees from their sleeves document so we know that some of the detainees have been released that doesn't mean that they've been released into freedom it means that they're still heavily controlled monitored some some of them probably can't move around freely i mean there's a whole network of surveillance and. there are surveillance cameras everywhere other detainees have been sent to labor camps those can be factories within the

villages where they're from they could also be factories in other labor and more worryingly we've also heard that some people have been sent to prison so. they even if they have been released from these so-called vacation training camps that by no means for little these are very frightening scenes that you describe have few been able to get an official reaction from chinese officials so we actually managed to talk to the chinese foreign minister who was in but in on a state visit last week and this is what he said to us jewish. no one has seen any kind of concentration camp and. no one is in any persecution the only thing to see was people of various ethnicities and living together harmoniously these facts demonstrate that the so-called concentration camps the so-called 1000000 are 100 percent rumors they are complete fake news fake. news complete denial their. complete denial but i mean that's not surprising that's

what the chinese without his have been saying all along they keep on stressing that these of it that people go voluntarily is that it's not surprising that we didn't get a different kind of response to diversity of reporter and i only conor thank you very much. like this i know about some of the other stories making news around the world. a suicide attack has killed at least 10 people in the western pakistani city of quetta around 35 people were injured in the explosion local police say the blast went off near a press club as dozens of supporters of a sunni militant group had gathered outside. authorities and work enough also say gunmen have killed at least $24.00 civilians in the east of the country the attack targeted a church in the village of pan see as almost extremists have been blamed for a growing insurgency that started in neighboring mali and has also extended into

new share. syrian state media say government troops have made advances against rebel held enclaves in the province of aleppo while the region has been held by opposition forces since 2012 the latest successes are threatening the fragile cooperation between turkey and russia which back on opposing sides in the conflict. the european union has agreed on a new naval mission to monitor the un embargo on arms deliveries to libya the country split between fighters loyal to the internationally or un recognized i should say government in tripoli and rebels who control most of the rest of the country in a foreign minister's meeting in brussels were initially at odds over whether to resume the mission at all to prevent the smuggling of arms to libya italy and austria were concerned that european ships for trolling the coast could encourage

more migrants to attempt to cross the mediterranean on libya is awash with arms and fighting is still raging despite the arms embargo all right let's get you the very latest now our correspondent teri schultz is in a brussels terry i understand that the foreign ministers are wrapped up their meeting and that your foreign policy chief joseph burrell spoke to the press what did he have to say. that's right foreign policy chief burrell just wrapped up a press conference in which he said that this had been some of the most fierce debate he's ever seen it was very difficult to get this consensus at the end of the day and he admitted that he didn't think they would be able to when the discussion started today so what's been decided is that they will in principle restart this mission renamed from operation sophia with a new mission they will not be tasked specifically with picking up migrants who may get into distress in the mediterranean and that's the way they were able to bring

austria and italy and some other governments on board by saying we are only going to monitor and enforce the arms embargo now that said it should be pointed out that it is a u.n. it is international law that if you see someone drowning in the sea the ships will have to pick those people up but that's going to be left for another meeting in order to announce this show of solidarity and the agreement on restarting the arms embargo monitoring mission well terry that's actually quite shocking i have to say so they are saying that they will break international law not save people in distress and that they're just monitoring the seas i mean how are they going to square that circle. they're not saying that they are saying that this will not be the focus of the mission they would not have been able to get agreement any other way and this was something that foreign policy chief burrell very much wanted to do of course journalists asked afterwards what are you going to do when you see these

people and he said you know we're leaving the you know the rules of engagement for another meeting. this is this is the risk and this is what austria and italy were saying they're saying there's going to be mission creep as soon as those e.u. ships are patrolling the moderate mediterranean people fleeing libya are going to get back on their rafts because that migration route has really decreased now so they're calling it a pull factor and that's something that's going to be watched very carefully and in fact in this agreement reached today it is said that if that happens if you start seeing migration spike again in that direction perhaps the naval mission will be scrapped once again only but of course the whole reason for them agreeing to this naval mission is to enforce this arms embargo so will it do that. well who knows i mean the. major arms suppliers turkey and russia already agreed. you know a month ago in berlin to stop doing this and they haven't they simply continued

arming their favored sides the u.n. backed government in in tripoli by turkey and. army general. by russia the other complication leila is that e.u. governments are split between these 2 sides you've got italy supporting the government you've got france supporting the warlord so this is still very messy it is a very small sliver of sunlight that there was a chief today but breaux is basically saying hey i'll take it and we'll work out the details later so much for means to be seen and that's why they could only announce an agreement in principle at the fine print that everything is in the details that terry thank you so much greatly appreciate it. next we're going to return to china because the country is now reporting an increase in the number of new cases of the korean a virus reversing the trend of the last 2 days the government also says the death toll now stands at 1800 and that more than 70000 people are infected with the virus

across the country in china's hoop a province the epicenter of the outbreak new reported cases are again on the rise after 2 days of declining figure is in mainland china alone officials say the total number of confirmed cases is over 70000 with nearly 800 deaths. chinese president xi jinping is now facing criticism over why the public was not alerted suno to the outbreaks potential severity official media recently released an internal speech he gave an apparent attempt to show the communist party leadership acted decisively from the start but instead it revealed china's top leaders knew about the outbreak stain just weeks before the president publicly addressed the problem. you know when you're china's military has now dispatched hundreds more medical workers and extra supplies to a bit to shore up the city's overwhelmed health care system. and correspondent he

has been or told us about the fallout from the release of prisoners speech. yeah this speech that we're talking about is a speech that he held on the 3rd of february that is 2 weeks ago it was published in chile sure that's the party's theoretical magazine that a party that spreads party ideology the interesting thing most of it is about combating a war against the virus and his leadership but the interesting thing is that he said in that speech that he had been cheering that battle against the virus from january the 7th now that was the time when authorities still denied that they were ayers was dangerous and this period of denial is seen as one of the main causes for the spread of the virus so he is now basically opening the failures from the

beginning and that's quite remarkable that he has said this over me and this could be published in the party magazine it's might be that they're confident to win the battle and that the initial failures will stand back behind these massive efforts that they're bringing on now to combat the virus it might be that he couldn't evade any more. this acknowledgement because the fact that he has not been seen during this period is also has also drawn a lot of criticism we don't know really the motives behind it but we know that we are in a period now when it's when when this battle against the virus is something that dominates the whole country today just we have seen news that most probably the 2 sessions the annual session of the parliament will be postponed this is a major step in this political system that does not like surprises to their schedule. what is boeing or their reporting from china while back here in germany

authorities have arrested 12 men suspected of having founded or supported a right wing extremist terror group that goes by the name hardcore all the group was allegedly plotting attacks on politicians and mosques across the country it was here at an outdoor barbecue area close to step got that members of the suspected terror group reportedly met for the 1st time in september 29th. am to provoke civil unrest by carrying out attacks against politicians asylum seekers and muslims 12 suspected members of the far right terrorist cell have now been arrested in a series of raids across germany. but praise for the successful operation has been followed by calls for increased security at places of worship. think this is a skill and i think we're all agreed here that it's the job of the state and of

course the government is to protect the freedom of religion in our country. no matter the religion of. investigators also discovered links with the extremist group soldiers of odin which was founded in finland in 2015 police also seized a number of weapons the rates come just months after the killing of regional politician to luka police have arrested a known far right extremist in connection with that killing in october last year 2 people were also killed when another far right extremist tried to attack a synagogue in the eastern german city of hala that incident adage to growing concerns in germany over the scale and influence of far right extremism. now in germany carnival celebrations in the country's mostly catholic regions kick off in just a few days well that means that we get fancy dress parties and street parades

leading up to the period of lent one of the country's carnival hotspots is colo but one shop in that city has sparked a controversy with its carnival theme pride products rather due to the reporter rebecca ritter's investigated what did you find well as you just mentioned a bakery in the western city on cologne has caused a bit of a stir this year with some of its produce it is selling these sweets known as chocolate kisses they depict colonial stereotypes many say there are reds i think we have a picture of the may have a they were this is civilized stated by after the author and columnist. posted a picture of the pastries and she wrote cafe come visit your pastries disgust me the white ones are not intended to represent balance they represent north africans there's 2 in the photo out of these so there's one that represent african people with the swollen face is. so the big sort of swollen red lips and

earrings now the cafe was. asked to comment on it they said we absolutely did not mean to offend anyone there is no racist thinking behind it many of our customers of people of color and today no one has complained. that's been the tone of some of the responses on social media as well people saying you know what's the big deal we don't mean to offend but obviously there is a community that really offended by this they think that it's people responding saying i'm in favor of such colonial representations being punished another tweeted oh no tolerant cologne this is disgusting so people coming out and saying this doesn't represent us and you know we don't feel like where a pot of inclusive included in this community so that it when we have to point out to. and it's a very multicultural city as well and these kinds of treats have come under fire in the past related reasons can you highlight some of them yeah well this is not the

1st associate with her because and racism it's no longer politically correct but we have seen pictures of the packaging that was when it was originally brought out in germany they used to be called. nigger coast which translates to negro kiss another name that was one of these was more uncommon moore's head which is in reference to north african. communities but most companies change the product name to the more neutral shaka which means chocolate cakes or shall just phone kiss or brand specific names such as this one super thick mums. bought in india i'm speaking switzerland this still sold as more uncommon and in france than known as to the neck and it's the head of the neighbors the name still exists now in 2008 saying just before the highly anticipated royal wedding of megan michael and harry that company super dick months produced a an image not actually a suite but an image of. what we're supposed to make and model yeah you got dressed

up in a wedding dress with the caption wouldn't you also want to be meghan today people really denounce this is only a couple of years ago so it is definitely still a big debate here in germany the company did then of course apologize and pull the tweet bot the damage has already been done that is just beyond the pale i have to say you know this is just one of several german or even european traditions that call them that that have come under fire absolutely and probably the most stock quanah the most obvious example is that of shots of pate or black as dish in the netherlands as you would and belgium every november the character of st nicholas the dutch sandton comes to town according to legend he he lives in spain here arrives to the. netherlands by boat with a team of black assistants he spends a month delivering presents it's meant to be very festive time all in good spirit but basically across the country hundreds of adults and children dress up as his

helper shots of paid wear black face and paint like red lips and very similar to the chocolates with the same bank sullivan cologne. the tradition you know some people have linked the tradition to similarities to the blackface minstrel shows in the us tonight and hundreds. many say this is a racist stereotype and see it as absolutely. unbelievable like happening several years now the parades are often met with lots of protesters and there's a debate about whether or not people should be allowed to carry on this tradition and there's a bit of a struggle i suppose between what is you know same by many in the community in communities across europe as tradition and then what same by the minority communities and rices their traditions are not set in stone or traditions are organic and change are right at least there's a discussion going on all right rebecca rivers thank you so very much greatly appreciate it and we're going to turn to portuguese football club victoria which

have launched an investigation after porto player mussa was racially abused by fans and league match america was so incensed he tried to substitute himself but his teammates physically stopped him from leaving the field actions which have been condemned by anti racism activists the molly forward says supporters from shouted racist abuse into a seat on the pitch were idiots also criticised the referee for showing him a yellow card for his protests. or one of the top story that we're tracking for you this hour china's and mistreatment of its muslim minority leaders has been exposed in a document leaked to w. and investigation concludes we are not simply attending the. training camps but confirms what the world has long suspected that they are being imprisoned because they are muslim. you're watching you know we know it's coming up to news asia

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