bridge. collapse in pyongyang starts feb 20th on w. . this is d.w.b. is live from berlin chilling new evidence of china's crackdown on its minority weaker population a document leaked to d.w. news confirms that china is a prison is bent 1st of its muslim minority based solely on their religion and culture we speak with the relatives of those being held in reeducation camps also coming up china releases

a new study showing that the number of new coronavirus cases appears to be declining but health officials also urged caution our correspondent in beijing explains at he killed thousands of people and caused untold misery to get colombian drug lord pablo escobar is still treated as a hero by many but now victims' families of his victims have found him and usual way to fight back. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program it is a narrative that china has been spinning for around 3 years but now documentation confirms it is false beijing has imprisoned more than 1000000 minority weaker muslims in internment camps the chinese government claims that the prisoners who are house here are islamist extremists who need to be educated and that the camps.

voluntary job training but a new documents leaked to d.w. and other german media outlets at great personal risk reveals that the weaker is are being targeted not because they are extremist but simply because they are muslim many of the prisoners have been detained for activities such as praying or wearing a headscarf or visiting a foreign web site. investigative reporter naomi conrad reports. because i would never have found out that my sister isn't it come without this least lugger going up for the boredom with. it's a detailed 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 there. is stunned. you know. these men now we get muslims from china back home they could be imprisoned for the simple act of praying and i

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 ocean junk the entire population of sion john right in front of the eyes of the world. we asked them to raise their hands if they have family members who've been imprisoned in china's province where most weekends live. across chin jiang there are dozens of camps holding up to a 1000000 we did. let's take a closer look at one of them this is a reification camp next to a prison. we identified watchtowers and high walls. that countless camps like this one.

needs 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 is targeting weak is based on their identity and religion it lists hundreds of detainees the reasons for their detention are. caused by the weak academic up to we are you perceived it from a source and took a huge risk sharing it with us. or. january 8 or you see with the phone call like it's messenger call and. he said that

stop doing this and to be can reach you where 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 john and that. it would take an immense amount of effort and access to publicly all available data to fabricate a document like this in this neighborhood in istanbul where many weekends 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 called them back yet. i was really sad for days i couldn't sleep. i was really shocked. and sad about her arrest. ok i'll call them. china says it's fighting extremism but talk he says her younger sister wasn't religious her only crime she had too many children along all of the little i heard that the conditions in prison are unimaginably bad they don't even have enough food to eat oh well almost all of her she doesn't know her relatives have been released like countless are the leaders they have been caught up in china's all encompassing anti terrorism drive. and let's get more on the

story we're joined here in the studio by naomi conrad from investigative unit you saw her in that piece there what more can you tell us about this document but it's a really chilling document because it basically shows you that as a week it doesn't really matter what you do you have almost automatically targeted if you where be if you bear the face veil even if your wife was the veil it shows how all compassing the surveillance state in china is they know everything about you they know how often you pray they know if you've talked to relatives abroad and that is pretty chilling where did the document come from so we got it from the whistleblower we saw in the source the obviously couldn't tell us how he got it from exactly but he got it from a source in china who's taken even bigger risk by sharing it with the public and he says the source wants this to go public because he wants some kind of reaction from the international community which is the chinese government have to say so we

actually managed to talk to the foreign minister who was in berlin last week and this is what he had to say jewish doctors and no one has seen any kind of concentration camp and. no one has seen 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 or 100 percent rumors they are a complete fake news freak so we're seeing a complete denial here absolutely i mean this is the line that the government has been taking for years so it's not really surprising at all but i mean that's a strong statement calling it a fake news and we have to remember that it's not as if independent journalists allowed to go to the region if they are it's a very. very surveilled trip that they take so it's incredibly difficult to get on the ground real information out of change and he saw the whistleblower in that piece he showed his face interesting lee enough what sort of repercussions do

whistleblowers such as himself face so. quite dramatic repercussions his wife has family members who've been imprisoned in recent weeks and months his wife's family members have been imprisoned he himself said that he has received threatening phone calls so potentially if the risk of pretty big we know that there are people currently in those chechen camps. the ones who have been released what happens to them next so they're not released into freedom of course some of them are released back into that community where the every move is very closely monitored some of the monte even allowed to move around freely we have to know that they're basically security cameras everywhere with very modern facial recognition technology so if you move with outside of the radius that's been assigned to you they set off the alarm others have been released into forced labor camps most likely these could be factories in the villages these can also be factories within reeducation camps and we also need to there that a lot of international companies european and also german companies source cotton

for example from jang it's a major cotton producer the whole folks live and producing cars there so our economies of a. into twined with with china's and with jim jones what conclusion can we draw about china surveillance state here it's all pervasive now we can read the best again a reporter with this breaking story because. let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world syrian president bashar al assad has vowed to continue the offensive against rebels in their last major stronghold in employee province in the country's northwest in a rare television address assad said that complete victory was in sight the russian backed offensive has displaced some 900000 people since armed december. protesters in haiti set fire to a carnival stand in the capital port au prince local sources say that the protesters were angry that the government spent money on carnival celebrations

haiti has seen months of unrest. amid widespread poverty and the deepening social and economic crisis. the world's richest man jeff bezos says he intends to spend $10000000000.00 to help fight climate change the jeff bezos earth fund will provide grants to people and organizations that work on environmental issues last year his company amazon announced plans to switch to renewable energy sources by 2030. another doctor in china has died after contraction the new coronavirus and work on the epicenter of the outbreak the doctors death comes as health officials in china publish details of a study into $70000.00 cases of the virus the report suggests the number of new infections is falling so far the virus has killed just over 2 percent of those infected with older people and those with existing conditions more likely to die of beijing more and that could change when people start returning to daily life.

for more let's get to our correspondent mathias bolinger who is standing by in beijing so mathias according to the study of the number of new infections is declining does this mean that the worst is over. a. report indeed strikes an optimistic tone saying that the number of new infections is not rising at the same pace as it was but if we look at the data more closely the data is up to the 11th of february now 2 days after this stage we had a massive in trees a new infections that was caused by a change in county by including probable cases that have not yet been confirmed into the statistics that day that number rose by 15000 in the way province and then the next day again 5000 part of these probable cases are included in this study but not all of them so all of this has to be taken with caution what is true is

that we don't see this pattern of increase in. other provinces outside off who bay but it's still too early to make a prediction mathias who's been most impacted by the virus. so. impacted by the virus a mostly people over 3030 to 79 adults we have some scholars have already remarked this remarkable finding that few children seem to be affected. for the death fatalities we can say that out mostly elderly people with most fatalities proportionately most fatalities in the age group above 70 and above 60 this is not a surprise this is what doctors have been saying before and of course by those who

are affected by infections the number of medical workers is quite remarkable 3000 medical workers infected or suspected of infection so far he mentions some numbers there how does this outbreak compare with previous virus outbreaks like sars for example well i think the main difference to saws and mers that is another similar virus is that it spreads much faster is much more contagious then songs the death toll other number the fatality rate is lower therefore so it is spreading faster but it is less less deadly than some. intense bowling there joining us from beijing thank you. well as we heard there the death rate is lower than for previous coronaviruses such as sars a sars outbreak in hong kong in 2003 kills around $300.00 people our correspondent

charlotte charleston pill reports from the territory on how many hong kong or sphere of that history could repeat itself as the new corona virus spread its. exhausted but relieved the nightmare that in and last week these residents were pulled from their beds in the middle of the night off to 2 people living floors apart tested positive for k. that 19 it's the buyers could be traveling through the pipes gripping hong kong with the collective dread that it was about to watch history repeat itself this isn't way gardens in 2003 it became synonymous with. 42 residents lost their lives to the songs epidemic hundreds more were infected defective pipes had been carrying the virus directly into people's hands the whole. becoming their city. they had to come home to god i feel so sad

and so i wouldn't even those of that 7 years that humans are still be coming to it to buy you know my mom. the horror of what happened here is still feed in people's minds many still haunted by the tale of the tragedy and it that which is now hearing fade today. mr yep says lessons have been learned and additional hygiene issues introduced but that's done little to calm nerves. with masks and hand sanitizer both in short supply toilet roll is now the latest target of panic shoppers. concerned so great one on lonely murphy's shortage is all it took to empty the shelves i think the reaction of the whole people is that he just he thought how would they know who would be in court that i came to talk to their prey who appears to be absolutely a terrific undy in fact that they not only. profess elia treated sons victims

he sees echoes of past mistakes the things more must be done to prevent another devastating outbreak this is a sweep it is already by theory to lead to the hope or apology should be used to encourage everyone every single one threw him off and also supply it because you couldn't for the myth that we stop there to protect them the. victims this outbreak is particularly painful. and needs a network of survive it while they're bracing for the worst he says sauce is proof that hong kong can come back from the brink of. back in 2003 we spend 4 to 5 months time to to fight against it says this we may have a longer time to fight and we should not be led by the fear inside us even those we have the experience that we should be telling everyone. we came across the most difficult time you know to us standing here back at home

a house authorities have given residents the clear but caution here was born from experience given hong kong's past the spread of fear can be as challenging to contain as the virus itself. and you're watching news still to come on the program simone viles wins against wins again excuse me i've been the research sports award but there was a surprise when it comes to the men's categories seem to me to find out why. but 1st colombian drug lord pablo escobar was once one of the world's most dangerous criminals in nearly 30 years after his death people continue to romanticize. his lifestyle and make money out of his brutal legacy now though as. they for ports the families of escobar as many victims have decided to take action . public bar is everywhere in the streets and shops he grins at passers by from t.

shirts key chains and even oil paintings pop culture has turned the founder of the many young drug cartel into an icon an icon who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people to consult this trend is horribly painful he tells me that 30 years ago his father died in a terror attack orchestrated by the notorious drug lord. and i think nowadays the people who sell these talks of products are soley motivated by the desire to make money in order to sell their contribution to the hype around this figure of a crime boss who inflicted a lot of pain on this country. in this place from 976-2993 escobar ruled over a kingdom of horror fueled by assassinations kidnappings and terror attacks still some of the very colombians who once lived in fear of him now seek to profit from his legacy yes some people come in and get mad they tell me this is blasphemy and

ask me why on earth are you selling this but people ask for it this is after all my livelihood if i get a request i get it printed because i run a business this is what gonzales and. columbia remembers is trying to show the grim reality behind the idolization with its latest project oddly enough it's an online store selling narco merchandise or at least that's what it looks like at 1st glance. the way it works is that if you try to buy one of the products offered on the website you'll encounter the story of a victim of narco terrorism in colombia a direct victim of public record. i meant that you know woman i'm magdaléna gomez and i'm the wife of. deceased in one of pablo escobar is a tax. cheat and i would like to tell my husband. that the life project we created together i

try to do in the name of our love. and of our life project is through mornin or through president. we love you forever. gonzalo and his co-founder daveed aren't alone in their fight against the trivialization of escobar as dark legacy through the narco store project they found unexpected allies with very close ties to the drug lord enthused you know for good sound tension to prioritize the victims are the products that glorify the crimes all the story of my father those products are permanent insult to the families and the after money and the alliance for peace unimaginable 3 decades ago 27 years after public death colombia still hasn't been able to dismantle the powerful drug industry he built banning the products that glorify narco culture

should be a far easier task. for it's news now in the champions league is back after a 2 month hiatus with the 1st legs tonight dortmund host amman while hope wall holders liverpool visit atletico madrid dortmund former is back on track and they'll need a very familiar face in the opposing duck. thomas circle is back in dortmund paris and your man cults left the german club in acrimony in 2007 tane now he wants to eliminate them in the champions league last 16 with his big spending french side complete with neymar and killian and back they desperate to finally lift europe's top trophy. says he holds no grudges following his controversial sacking at dortmund. but hasn't been in the stadium since i left and then i come here and i see lots of faces i know because it's a friendly faces who greeted me and i was happy to see them too. it's offensive is

weird feeling of course but it's also a nice feeling because i'm very thankful that i was dortmund coach for 2 years. dortmund got back to winning ways in the bond as leader on friday with a 4 no demolition of eintracht frankfurt muse star striker hailing brout holland was back in the goals despite netting 8 times for sulzberger in the group stage he is eligible to play against p.s.g. after a rule change. midfielder axel witsel will also be an important player in trying to stop p.s.g. as a ray of talent and kick starting dorman's attacks. be strong defensively i think will be one of the key. we have to focus on. we have a lot of quality team and we are told we have our friends. the champions league is

finally back on one of the 1st knockout matches promises plenty of intrigue on and off the pitch. and here in berlin some of the greatest athletes have gathered for the oscars of this for its world the 20th anniversary of the laureus sports awards honored individuals and teams for their achievements throughout the year there were few surprises but something unusual happened in the men's category. it's never happened before in 20 years of the laureus world sports awards a historic tie at the laureus world sports awards sportsman of the year was shared between possible in a star messi and 2019 formula one champion lewis hamilton this is such an incredible honor to see all those greats that followed have been inspired by to be in amongst to sit with all of you tonight some of the great rising stars but legends watch so many of you have been inspired by you for.

the 1st time a soccer player has clinched the award world sportswoman of the year went to american gymnast simone boyle's making this her 3rd win balls became the most decorated gymnast in world championship history when she won her 25th medal last year the world to me this is my 3rd laureus award so i'm truly grateful and i want to congratulate all the other nominees but sports isn't just about individual accomplishments team effort matters to south africa's rugby team grabbed the world team of the year award after winning the world cup in japan last year. to mates and obviously all of those. see achilles see excepted the award became south africa's 1st black captain last year. this is news and these are top stories. best occasion has confirmed that china's camps housing

minority weaker muslims are not engaging in fighting extremism as the government claims a document obtained by d.w. shows the camps are being used to imprison people simply because they are weaker. chinese health officials say that $98.00 more people have died from the new corona virus taking the death toll from the disease to nearly 1900 authorities say that 80 percent of the cases in the country have been mild and that new corrupt new virus cases appear to be on the decline. as the world's richest man jeff says that he intends to spend $10000000000.00 to help fight climate change the basis fund will provide grants to people and organizations that work on environmental issues as company amazon relies heavily on fossil fuels. american gymnast simone biles has won sportswoman of the year for the 3rd time at the laureus world

sports awards in berlin formula one champion lewis hamilton soccer superstar of the on a messy were named joint winners of the men's. this is this is g w news for more follow us on twitter or visit our website dot com. still to come on d w apple says that its dependence on china will hit its bottom line as the new coronavirus outbreak disrupts supply chains and keeps customers at home. all that working with up with my colleague chris kohler i'm sara kelly in berlin thanks for watching.

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