join the board. this is news live from berlin chilling new evidence of china's crackdown on its minority leader population a document leaked to d.w. news confirms that china is imprisoning members of its muslim minority based on their religion and culture we speak to the relatives of those being held in reeducation camps. also coming up china releasing

a new study showing that the number of new coronavirus cases appears to be declining but health officials also urged caution we speak with a for all adjust and he killed thousands of people and caused untold misery death colombian drug lord pablo escobar is still treated as a hero by many but now the families of his victims have found an unusual way to fight back and it is deja vu for paris and your man coach thomas to call it the champions league tonight as he returns to his former team. and. 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 bigger muslims in internment camps the chinese government claims that the prisoners are

islamist extremists who need to be re-educated and that the camps provide voluntary job training but a new documents lead to d.w. and other german media outlets. great personal risk reveals that the weavers are being targeted not because they are extremist because they are simply muslim many of these prisoners have been detained for prying away wearing a headscarf but also for activities such as visiting a foreign websites do you investigative reporter naomi conrad has more. oh sure because women i would never have found out that my sister isn't a come without this least a lover going up the boy the men but. 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. istanbul. you know. 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 ocean junk 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 is to enjoin province where most weekends live. across ginger there are dozens of camps holding up to a 1000000 weak as let's take a closer look at one of them this is a reeducation camp next to a prison. we identified watchtowers and high walls. that countless camps like this one the

chinese government claims they are fallen tree vocational training centers designed to fight we. but we received a document which shows that china is targeting weak is based on the identity and religion it lists hundreds of detainees and the reasons for their detention are. i posted weak academic up to we're you perceived it from a source and took a huge risk sharing it with us. january 8 i did see the phone call like it's messenger call and. he said that

stop doing this and we can reach you wherever 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. in 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. it contains an enormous amount of extremely specific. data from one very small community in. 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 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 youngest sister was listed in the document called mbeki edible. i was really sad for days i couldn't sleep. i was really shocked. and sad about her arrest. ok don't call them go on yet and will. china says it's fighting extremism but talk he says her youngest sister wasn't religious her only crime she had too many children along. i heard that the conditions in prison are unimaginably bad they don't even have enough food to eat oh. well. she doesn't know her relatives have been released like countless are the leaders

they have been cool top in china it'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 the we get it doesn't really matter what you do you have almost automatically targeted if you where be it if you wear a face veil or 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 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 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. 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 or 100 percent rumors they are a complete fake news for you 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 tune john you 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 the recent weeks and months his wife's family members have been imprisoned he himself said that he's received threatening phone calls so potentially if the risks 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 their community whether every move is very closely monitored some of the monti even allowed to move around freely we have to know that in changing their basically security cameras everywhere with a 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 the education camps and we also need to know that

a lot of international companies european and also german companies source for example from jane jang it's a major cotton producer of the wheel so how folks live and producing cars there so our economies of a. into twined with with china's and with tim jones what conclusion can we draw about china surveillance state here it's all pervasive now we can write the best again if reporter thank you so much. now to some other stories making news around the world the un human rights chief michelle bachelet is calling for humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to flee fighting in serious illness and aleppo provinces syrian government troops are advancing rapidly into the country's last rebel held areas rights groups warn that a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in the region. protesters in haiti set fire to carnival stands in the capital port au prince local sources say that protesters

were angry that the government spends money on carnival celebrations he has seen months of unrest amid widespread poverty and he deep. in social and economic crisis . the world's richest man jeff bezos says he intends to spend $10000000000.00 to help fight climate change the bass those earth fund will provide grants to people and organizations that work on environmental issues last year his company amazon announced plans to switch to a new mobile energy sources by 2030. another doctor in china has died after contracting the new corona virus and will haunt 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 suggesting that the number of new infections is falling so far the virus has killed just over 2 percent of those infected with other people and those with existing conditions more likely to die but beijing warns that could change when people start returning to daily life.

and now for the very latest i'm joined by simon clark he is an associate professor in cellular microbiology in reading in england thank you so much for joining us sir as we see there according to this study the number of new infections is declining does this need the worst is over. it could do but as the chinese government has said when people start getting out of their homes when they stop meddling going back to work traveling across the country and indeed across the world you might see that the number of infections starts to go back up again so while it's good news we still need to be vigilant which groups of people seem to have been the most affected would you say. to people who are elderly or have preexisting medical conditions so that's not uncommon with these sorts of arsons. how does this outbreak compare to previous virus outbreaks like for example the one we saw with sars. well it's. those

compared to sars and compared to mers i think it's it's a less pathogenic the governments in the affected areas of moved much quicker i think this time than they did nearly 20 years ago and solve the problem so it's been contained much more quickly than has been in the past but it's a less pathogenic virus it seems so that might account for something as well what is your opinion on the containment issues currently underway i mean is there anything else that you would be recommending to authorities. you know probably no i think the authorities in china be very very sorry and well behaved dogs. really they probably couldn't have done very much more they can of course carry that on forever has to stop at some point and what do you mean stop at some point what they're not going to get back to. they have to let people get back to normal

life you can't keep people locked up in their houses for for months on end that's simply not possible. what do you think the projections are now over the coming weeks and the coming months when it comes to this virus. it's impossible to tell at this stage what they might have got a lid on it might stop spreading i think that's probably unlikely but whether the numbers take off again is remains to be seen as people are allowed to move around the country move around the city and like i said internationally you might might see more people with infections but perhaps outside china as well confess and simon clark in beating england thank you so much. thank you. well as we heard of the death rate is lower than for the previous chrono virus outbreak such as sars sars outbreak in hong kong in 2003 killed around $300.00 people our

correspondent alison pill reports from the territory on how many hong kong or sphere history could repeat itself as the new corona virus spread its. exhausted but relieved that nightmare didn't 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 19 it's is 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 tragedy. 42 residents lost their lives to the song's epidemic hundreds more were infected defective pipes had been carrying the virus directly into people's homes the whole. becoming the city.

they had to come. i feel so safe and so i wouldn't even those of the 7 years that humans are still be coming to evaluate them are the horror of what happened here is still see in people's minds many still haunted by the tale of the tragedy and it is that which is now fueling faith today. mr yep says lessons have been learned and additional hygiene measures introduced but that done little to calm nerves. with masks and hand sanitizer both in short supply toilet rolls now the latest target of panic shop is. concern so great one online rumor of a shortage is all it took to empty the shelves i think of the f. king of the whole people is that he just thought how would they know who would interpret i came to talk to their prey who appears to be absolutely a theoretical than i may be that they. profess

a light treated sons victims he sees echoes of pasta steaks and things more must be done to prevent another devastating outbreak this is a stupidity so already i think your least in the hope or thought he should be is to encourage everyone every single one threw him off and also supply it with equipment for the method we called for to protect him. since this outbreak is particularly painful and it's now needs a network of survive it's while they're bracing for the west he says science is proof that hong kong can come back from the brink of. that in 2003 we spent 4 to 5 months to to fight against it seize this time we may have a longer time to fight and we should not be led by the fear inside us even though we have the was experience that we should be telling everyone who we are we came across the most difficult time you know us standing here back at home

a house authorities have given residents to you 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 about to bring you some breaking news just coming in i took a court has acquitted all 16 defendants accused of trying to overthrow the government during the 2013 gezi park protests in istanbul the verdict was not expected the judges said the prosecutors provided insufficient evidence to convict the defendants which included civil society activists the court has ordered their release from prison. again some breaking news there in other news colombian drug lord published cobar was one of the world's most dangerous criminals yet nearly 30 years after his death people continue to romanticize his lifestyle and make money out of his brutal legacy now though as he. reports the families of escobar as many

victims have decided to take action. pablo escobar 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 by contributions 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 gonzalez and geo. 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. and i think you know i mocked elena go mass and i'm the wife of not. deceased and one of pablo escobar is

a tax. he said 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 morning or through predicting we love you forever. gonzalo and his co-founder daveed aren't alone in their fight against the trivialization of escobar his dark legacy through their narco store project they found unexpected allies with very close ties to the drug lord. enthused you know or needs our own tension to prioritize the victims over the products the glorify the crimes all the story of my father those products our opponents insult to the families of those in the know their 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. and also in the news today an abandoned cargo ship has washed up on the southern coast of ireland the 77 meter and. have been adrift with no crew for more than a year after it broke down south of bermuda and $28.00 team irish authorities say that a contractor will board the vessel at low tide to assess its condition. the private space company space x. has successfully put another 60 internet satellites into orbit the company founded by billionaire elon musk now has about 300 satellites in low orbit the reusable rocket failed to land correctly it came down in the water instead of on its floating landing site for separation terrifying moments for

a herd of horses that broke through an ice ice on the river in chira in the region of russia farmers using ropes and a tractor managed to rescue all 11 mares from drowning a warm winter has resulted in unusually thin ice on many russian lakes and rivers. here in berlin some of the greatest athletes have gathered for the oscars of the sports world the 20th anniversary of the laureus world sports awards honored individuals and teams for their achievements throughout the year there were few surprises but something unusual happened in the men's court 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 boston a star messi and 2019 formula one champion lewis hamilton this is such an incredible honor to see all those greats that i've followed have been inspired by

to be in amongst to sit with all of you tonight some of the great rising stars but legends i have watched so many of you and have been inspired by you for messi it's also the 1st time a soccer player has clinched the award world sportswoman of the year when 3 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 that come here today and overseas. see

a khaleesi who accepted the award became south africa's 1st black captain last year . and the champions league is back after a 2 month hiatus with the 1st 2 legs tonight dortmund host paris mon while holders liverpool visit athletico madrid dortmund form is back on track and they will need a very familiar face in the opposing dugout. thomas circle is back in dortmund paris and your man cults left the german club in acrimony in 2007 saying now he wants to eliminate them in the champions league last 16 with his big spending french side complete with neymar and killian mbak they are desperate to finally left europe's top trophy but circle says he holds no grudges following his controversial sacking at dortmund. i haven'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

a bit of his 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 elling brout holland was back in the goals despite netting 8 times for salzburg 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 dog man's attacks. be strong defensively i think will be one of the key. we have sources 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. quick reminder of the top stories we've been following for you here at the time as mistreatment of its muslim minorities weekers has been confirmed in a document leaked to the. investigation concludes that we are not attending vocational training camps that are being imprisoned. because they are. minors at the top of the hour i'm sorry kelly in berlin thanks a lot. of

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