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oh. to c.w. news live from for lend me girls forced to confess that their religion is a cry. for the women i was raised and made up that if they have worn a headscarf i'll pray they call the troubled abroad there wasn't a single criminal among that i. use investigative team uncovers a new evidence showing tweakers were subjected to sham trials at chinese detention camps some who confessed were released others disappear. also coming up mass
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demonstrations against racism and police brutality continue across the u.s. and beyond protesters for some symbolic victories to build a movement result in real reform at the wave of anti racism protests and reaches as far as for example the anger they're mixing with the fear over the coronavirus the country's death toll is surging and many blame our right president china at fault for not oh. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program we begin with a special report into the situation in china's restive region where researchers asked to meet up to a 1000000 people have been detained in so-called re-education camps the remote.
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robinson china's far north west is off limits to international media the muslim leaders who make up most of the population there have long faced repression by the chinese authorities including in recent years lengthy imprisonment when our investigative team has found that many imprisoned leaders inside of these camps have been forced to choose from the list of crimes and then sentenced in sham trials without access to due process the team spoke with those who escaped china vast network of repression and sion john. you don't have any freedom or your money 247 they can interrogate you as any time even at night when you're sick so when i was way it ended up that because they had want to head scarf. over troubled abroad there wasn't a single criminal among and. that's the voice of a woman who spent almost a year inside a reeducation camp in china with keeping her identity
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a secret in order to protect her family and say in a remote region in northwest china. chine jiang is home to the weakest a predominantly muslim ethnic group. decades of state sponsored discrimination against them has spread into discontent and times of violence including riots and terror attacks. in response china has cracked down and we do this and built up a close knit surveillance system deal for a tease of imprisoned more than a 1000000 people in internment camps across to. the chinese government claims the camps were set up to fight extremism and provide readers with the patient or skills but detainees and documents contradict that narrative rather detainees are targeted based on little more than their culture and religion and are forced to undergo a draconian and often brutal brainwashing program. and now we've on earth even more
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chilling evidence of china's for oppression of week we talk to former detainees who managed to escape china's last network of reeducation camps. one day they were handed a list of alleged crimes. it was one page of paper we had to choose one item i started reading it and it said wearing a headscarf playing owning. all phoning all contact him people abroad they threatened you will stay here until you pick a crime so i signed the paper and put my finger print. a few days after the woman was forced to sign the list official start of calling up people one by one for what amounts to a sham trial oh yes you were you. there were no lawyers.
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there would read out the judgement and the detainee would have to say i confessed my crimes i promise i won't repeat my wrongdoings coming out of the trunk of my just the course. so that. we analyze satellite imagery in publicly available material such as construction bids and tender notices i managed to locate 3 camps where these trials happened in 2018 in 3 different locations across 2. after the trials detainees started disappearing some were picked up at night others led away from their classrooms never to return. but it seems that only those who had confessed to religious acts in the child's were picked up this is yet another indication that china is targeting weak a culture and religion. the woman in the other detainees we talked to managed to
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escape to neighboring cuz i stand as those with cuts that president seal family members were eventually allowed to leave china. my husband say's i changed sometimes i get very angry for no reason is us creaming enjoying the nights i'm so exhausted all the times you asked us let's bring in now naomi conrad who is part of that investigative team working on the story and i only welcome to you we heard in that report that after the trial some of the detainees disappeared what's likely to have happened to them. right we'll basically don't know for sure because there's no paper trail what we assume is that they were either sent to a high security reeducation camp or prison which could be inside maybe even outside of the province to be honest there isn't really much of a difference between a high of a high level security reeducation camp and the prison. detainees are kept there
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indefinitely so it's pretty similar but as they said we can't know for sure and it's not as if the chinese authorities got back to our information request why is china conducting these sham trials inside the camps. well that's a question we would have loved to put to them to the chinese authorities unfortunately they didn't want to give us an interview we're assuming that it might be in part to legalize the whole system people are imprisoned in reeducation camps without a trial they sometimes basically just picked up off the street so that could be the one explanation another one could be that it's for domestic audience that relatives want to know what's happened to their relatives they want to know how long their relatives have to stay in these camps or even in prison so it could also be you know in response to domestic criticism to relatives asking what happened to their loved ones but as i said we just don't know for sure because the authorities didn't want to talk to us they didn't want to talk but meantime they have claims that this
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year everyone who had received so-called education and training inside the camps so-called graduated that they were now leading happy lives but that doesn't really match the research does it. no it doesn't and it also doesn't match what we found just by looking at satellite imagery so what is true is that some camps were closed down in some of them which basically turned into dormitories says some former detainees working for factories i think you could call it forced labor because it's not as if they can choose whether or not to work for these factories and some of these factories actually produce for international companies including german ones but what we also saw is that the heidi level security camps are the ones with a lot of security that they're actually expanding so it's not as if all the camps as the chinese authorities claim have been closed down quite the opposite some camps are expanding so it's likely that
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a lot of detainees are still being held so they weren't exactly telling the truth there and then when there have been so many reports on the repression of week there john tell us where is the international outrage where is the international pressure on china. certainly of this year there was some movement the european parliament called for targeted sanctions the u.s. congress is actually just passed a bill also quote calling for targeted sanctions but here in europe and here in germany it has been incredibly quiet officials are obviously aware of the situation they always say that behind the scenes they do they do talk about human rights they do raise the issue of week as human rights but we have to remember that china is an incredibly important trading partner and that german companies european companies are active in china and also in jackson so even while politically there might be
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some pressure behind the scenes officials here politicians here on really coming out all that vocally harsh reality naomi conrad from investigations thank you. and we will have more analysis on the story throughout the day you can also watch the full report on g.w. news's you tube channel we had now to the united states where crowds gathered across the country over the weekend for more protest in the wake of george floyd killing in police custody thousands flocked to the heart of washington d.c. to voice their opposition to racism and police brutality it comes as the majority of minneapolis city council members pledge to dismantle the police department whose former officers have been charged for their role in floyd staff 2 weeks ago. and britain was among many countries outside of the us that also saw weekend anti
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racism protests sparked by the death of george floyd while the rallies were mostly peaceful scuffles broke out between protesters and police in london demonstrators also vandalized statues including one honoring a slave trader. and actor vandalism or historic moments. for years this statue of a 17th century british slave trader in the southwestern english city of bristol was controversial as the global anti-racism protests reached the city on sunday and found events in the 125 year old bronze figure of edward colson. such represents years of oppression represents years of hard. and just a lot of emotion and hatred. out of all starts we've internalised for years and calming down today hopefully signifies change. in central london clashes broke
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out between police and black lives matter demonstrators. a statue of former british prime minister winston churchill was also vandalised the scuffles came towards the end of what had been mostly peaceful protests drawing tens of thousands to the capital rallying to condemn police brutality after the death of black man george floyd while in police custody in the u.s. . the british government condemned the violence as well as protests going ahead despite the coronavirus pandemic. the you know we respect the right to protest but we do not respect and it is completely on the awful to participate in acts of disorder tons of ism violence on the soul we are in the midst of our health and right now and under the rules that we have put in place it is illegal for
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gatherings of 6 or more people outside an open air to get together and that is on except. for these protesters at least there's more than one global pandemic on our hands. and the wave of anti racism protests has reached brazil south america's biggest nation is also one of the country's worst affected by a coronavirus pandemic many people. as anger has been compound by the policies the far right president triad both in audio he disagrees with the lockdown measures imposed by regional governments and has dismissed covert 19 as a flight flew despite his country saying more carona related deaths than almost any other. piece of the 1st protests against president since the covert 19 pandemic began 20 fascist groups in the capital brasilia took to the streets to demonstrate against both sinatras leadership to. brazil it's sinking into chaos health care
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system was bad before the covenanting crisis now it's just getting worse plus the ball sonora government is fighting to set up a dictatorship protests took place across the country here in rio de janeiro residents of the favelas protested against police violence in poor neighborhoods. belson are supporters however gathered on the copacabana they criticized covert 19 physical distancing measures and called for more powers to be placed with the president. that they have you know we don't want any military intervention but we demand justice we have to clean up brazil and to lock up the corrupt. at the same time both in iran has threatened to pull brazil out of the world health organization. so you the usa is turning its back on the world health organization we are also looking into this if it continues to operate with an ideological bias brazil doesn't need advice from abroad both scenarios says he also wants to review
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how the covered 19 death toll is calculated critics fear by doing so he will be able to manipulate the data infections continued to climb now to more than a 1000 a day. we are in mourning my stepfather never wore a mask and did nothing to protect himself he made fun of it didn't believe the virus was dangerous that's why he shook everyone's hand. according to the family he died of corona virus at the age of $57.00. you're watching news still to come in the bundestag the shockers coach is under pressure as his team goes another week without a win. and lift your lockdown blues with a new pop art exhibit that promises some good vibrations. now let's get a check 1st though of some other stories making news around the world an iranian doctor who was detained in the united states over a year has returned to his homeland to hear he was released in
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a prisoner swap that also freed a u.s. navy veteran held by tehran to hear he was accused of violating u.s. sanctions by sending a technical item to iraq. tropical storm christophe has been making landfall in the southern u.s. state of louisiana heavy rain pounded the gulf coast ahead of its arrival causing flooding and property damage across several states as the storm headed inland the storm is expected to weaken to a tropical depression on monday. at least one person has been killed in southern pakistan after a 5 story residential building collapsed in karate dozens of people were living in the building which was being evacuated when it collapsed several residents have been taken into the hospital with injuries. india recorded nearly 10000 new coronavirus cases on sunday as the country begins to emerge from a 10 week lockdown shopping malls hotels and places of worship are set to reopen
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but it won't be business as usual in one of the world's largest economies millions of migrant workers fled from big cities when the virus broke out now many factories face acute personnel shortage so. it's a busy work day for the few laborers who remain at this factory in northern india but many machines are idle collecting dust after 2 thirds of the employees left. the cost of production is up while profits are down the head of finance fears the company may not survive. i don't think this is of who you would think are going to be. you got back. but normal could be a long way off big cities have been hit hard by the mass exodus and it's unclear how many laborers will return. nobody knows when this pandemic will
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end i don't know if i will come back to new delhi or not but the spread of the virus doesn't seem to be stopping so i'd like to go back to my village and be with my family. some companies are trying to lure workers back by doubling their salaries the acute shortage comes as analysts predict india's slowest economic growth in over a decade. the decision to reopen amid a spike in covert cases has drawn criticism for the government it's a tightrope act as they try to protect the people and the economy. and demand for chinese goods was hit last month by coronavirus effects and a resurgence in trade tensions with the united states official data show that chinese exports slipped 3.3 percent in may from here earlier that came even as exports of masks and other medical supplies surged amid efforts to combat the pandemic imports plunged nearly 17 percent which was worse than expected china's
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economy is expected to grow at slowest pace in more than 4 decades this year. as the more we are joined here in the studio by clifford coonan from d.w. business so i mean these figures they don't really come as too much of a surprise but you know. how do they stack up against expectations i think what they're showing us now is just the complexity of the impact of this pandemic now. they were a surprise in the last month figures were a surprise so people are becoming accustomed to surprise but the same time they showed that demand around the world isn't there so big exports are like china or trade accounts for a 3rd of the total economy is struggling in the face of. i think if you look at the figures exports of the us fell 1.2 percent which isn't very much for the same time to india they fell 51 percent in brazil was also down by a 3rd so we've got a lot of. there's a lot of this clearly a very mixed picture but the overall picture is pretty grim as far as chinese
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exports go is that just a question of demand or is that does that also have to do with the geopolitical tensions that we're seeing between china and the united states right now i think that's a big factor i mean the fact that exports are only down 1.2 percent in the us is kind of surprising in itself i think a lot of that has to do with the medical supplies that you mentioned. i think it's going to get worse as well we're not seeing a receiver in the us that china is turning into in the lead. an issue a major election issue and president trump there will be will be keen to reinforce this anti china message going into that and that's going to play out in trade with the trade talks that we've been having. will possibly be resumed we've become so accustomed so used to seeing china as as one of the world's growth engines you know posting spectacular results how can china now dig itself out of this hole well although it on the 100th in a strong position because it's kind of ahead of the curve with the pandemic so it's able to get things going again but on the other hand it does know where to sell
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them to so what it's doing at the moment is trying to build demand at home it's issuing like some chinese cities for example or asian coupons to get people to go out and buy things they're trying to get everything going again but there really needs for international trade to pick up again and that means things like the trade talks need to come back in some form or other in order for us china relations to improve i think it's going to be crucial and also the relations with europe are becoming increasingly important now so there's a lot of areas that china needs to to to line up in order for the world's 2nd biggest economy to grow again so diplomacy should be a priority going forward clifford couldn't from the business thank you. in soccer shell has run without going to sleep when stretched to 12 matches following a one all draw away to berlin coach david wagner's has been heavily praised after leading the team to european contention before the mid-season break well after
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another disappointing result in the capital he's fighting to save his job. before kickoff both on and shocker showed this support for the black lives massive protests coaching staff included. once the game was on the way it didn't take long for the home side to score finance and through ball sending ryszard angry one on one have. the germans finish gave alexander knew both no chance. but shocker hit back just before the half hour mark englishman john joe kenny rifling in from outside the books. the on loan everton defender with a pinpoint drive to level the scores. the 2nd half short chances go begging with neither side able to take advantage 11 the final score another disappointing
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day out for shelter now winless in 12 is in and i think we're in an insanely difficult phase and we know exactly why that is we know where our problems lie and we've discussed them of course we'll discuss them again in greater detail at the end of the season we have various problems to solve feel free to leave. to me on safety is now 0 but confirmed. and to close out the blunders take action on sunday evening f.c. oxburgh hosted cologne in a heated encounter that had plenty of physical contact and evenly contested affair that ended in a draw and with only 4 games to go until the end of the season both sides looks that to remain in the top flight. the physicality was high between burke in cologne over 30 fouls occurred on the pitch midway through the 1st half aggression from colognes keeper led to a chance from the spot for outs were. team 0 and 0 kept his cool when it
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counted. pouching to prevent outskirt from taking the lead florian you know lesnar has missed 2 of his last 3 penalties in the been his leader in the 2nd half with less than 10 minutes left cologne brought in season striker anthony my dentist and the 32 year old made his presence felt. but this 3rd goal in his last 4 games to put the visitors ahead when he fired through the hours worked to fits but the lead would be short lived only lasting 3 minutes out of bergen possession from booker's cross finds philip max who slotted home to level the score one all. max's 8th goal of the season a personal best. out spurs remain unbeaten in a club record 11 but as they get matches against cologne. well we've all seen how
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weeks of lockdown have weighed heavily on people's spirits now and heart museum in germany is trying to spread a little post pandemic joy with an homage to the pop art generation. american classics from the beach boys which captured the spirit of the sixty's good vibrations is also the title of the new exhibition at the vilhelm hack museum in look it's how often. this song uses optimism and that is exactly what the museum hopes to reaganite as the world emerges from the coronavirus pandemic. he. has become possible again we're also taking small steps towards normalization at the museum and there is a great sense of joy that we can finally start to resume our regular lives in that the organizers came up with the title 1st and only then selected the words the
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museum is literally sitting on a treasure thousands of works are stored in the basement of patron donated his collection to the museum including classics like and the walls portrait of elizabeth tight. this is the 1st day the show is open for visitors to enjoy and many have waited a long time for this moment. i've missed museums for sure they're all kinds of things on the internet but i can't sit in front of a screen all day and the experience of standing in front of a picture is totally different from staring at a screen. these are the good vibrations the beach boys sang about back then a long time ago and we really need them. both. for my life i'm confident about the future in a time of crisis the exhibition organizers want to give visitors
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a brief escape from the coronavirus pandemic. and with that now you're up to date on the news i'm sarah kelly in berlin remember you can keep up with the latest news on our web site that the t w dot com and you can follow us on twitter and instagram as well. thank you so much for joining us to take care and taking. the fall.
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