this is d.w. newsline from berlin forcibly sterilized and tortured for not speaking the language an exclusive report from the repression of tweakers inside china's free education channel. cameras everywhere you're not allowed to possibly scratch your head or cry if they saw that they would force you want to a metal chair they would make you sit there for 12 hours 24 hours. also coming up the u.s. electoral college formally confirms joe biden as winner of last month's election he

tells americans it is time to turn the page on the trump era and has democracy prevailed. meanwhile the u.s. begins the most ambitious vaccination campaign in its history doctors nurses and other vulnerable groups are 1st in line to receive doses of the biotech finds or vaccine. and the corner bars walked out day of silence to m.d.'s like bollywood song productions but a new generation of do it yourself rappers are ready to fill the vacuum. that. killed alexander mccall. great you gotta believe that must defeat. i'm sumi so misconduct thank you for joining us. critics have called it a 21st century genocide. china is locking up and so-called reeducation of more than

1000000 weekers and camps in that region but now exiled makers have been dealt a blow by the international criminal court it has rejected calls to investigate beijing for alleged genocide and cries crimes against humanity because china is not a signatory to the hague based tribunal and china maintains its goal is to really educate people and steer them away from islamist extremism we say that with its program of forced sterilization abortion and internment beijing is trying to wipe out every trace of the muslim minorities identity correspond as much as berlin and julia han have this exclusive report. scenes of a family outing with 000000 ad hom her husband to us when john and the little daughter by are in turkey the safe location for not. but for 0 a normal life is too far away she says she does not feel safe anywhere.

the month of the cold i still wake up from nightmares in which i see myself in a chinese internment camp again. the images and memories of the interrogations of the beatings and the things they did to him and their haunt me i then feel sick for a few days and i can't sleep i argue with my family i even think about hurting myself. in 201700000000 han was arrested in sindh junk china's westernmost region she is an ethnic azar born in china and was living in kazakhstan at the time on a trip back to china she was detained by police and then hope for a year in several reeducation camps. although they tortured us they had cameras everywhere you were not allowed to pause scratch your head or cry if they saw that they would force you want to a metal chair they would make you sit there for 12 hours 24 hours you were tied to

the chair and if you tried to move it would get tighter then they make you repeat chinese words that you didn't know if you forgot them they used electroshock device on your head. back in cause i stan her family did not know where she was at the same time authorities in china suddenly started to detain large numbers of the region's muslim minorities i traveled to the region to see for myself middle school number 4 of which are counted was one of the counts she had been to in 2018 a high wall was built around the school and shacks were built in the courtyard today the school is back to what it was china has defended the facilities as the creation of training centers and declared that by 2019 all trainees had graduated but 0 has also told us that many of our former inmates would later transfer to regular prison on the outskirts of 2 more officers. there are now 5

policemen following. a prison with watchtowers and another camp where both built in 2017 when the campaign against ethnic minorities took off all staff left. in one town if you film here we will have to take measures against you on this place is a state secret rooms i meet. with 0 was told she was detained because she had been to kazakhstan that was seen as a sign of being disloyal to china more and more service and now calling what is happening in the region could genocide after reports of forced birth control sterilisation and. in the camp was 0 recalls the inmates were administered injections of women for local after the injection some women stopped having their periods those who still had it were given one pad they had to use it for 2 or 3 days if their period would comment with substance. come if not not

we stopped being ashamed about it at some point we didn't stop thinking of home most of us had stop crying. 0 is one of the lucky ones she was finally allowed to leave after her husband had complained for in kazakhstan she has no news to me. from her relatives in the region. that report from a correspondent a you have just returned from shin jang what was it like to report there. so me a story defending the and he joins us from beijing for more home a ts vehicle to report from there you are being followed around cones constantly in most places it depends a little bit on the location the local authorities seem to have different approach is in some places you followed by these plainclothes policeman from a distance and they had to if you feel once you approach for example a prison or

a complex we've seen in that case sometimes they even won't let you take pictures off the streets and of course anybody you would talk to risks being interrogated by them i had one situation where i was filming on the street and then a man shouted something to me he touched a chinese flag and said he was a patriot and then asked me inside his shop i went in there took a few pictures inside his shop then i walked away and when i turned around i saw my mind just coming out of his shoes so under these circumstances of course reporting is very different from other places you cannot freely talk to people. you cannot make contacts and interview people from all walks of society as you would in other places what about the woman we saw in your report goes here and her family there safe in turkey now how common is that to be able to escape and build a life elsewhere. there are very few people who have been

able to excrete the region and very few former inmates a few dozen dozen i think worldwide most of them are cars are people who are from the border region but you will have lived in kazakhstan before like her who had family there who were able to compare even being caused citizens because cousin stan has allowed them to me immigrate into kazakhstan for the last few decades so some of them have both national on their behalf knowledge sees otherwise it's very difficult that people do not owing on beijing has that all had any impact on their treatment of waiters. it has had an impact on what they have passports police as taking away passports from most people in the region and it is just quickly we know international pressure is grudging is saying about the come stay used to say there were no camps now they say that the education centers we've also seen them decent cura ties a little bit but overall i do not think that the all pression against you week is

is ending in any way. correspondent mathias been reporting from beijing thank you for sharing that reporting with us. let's check in now and some other stories from around the world countries across europe are tightening coronavirus restrictions after a surge in cases the british capital london and parts of southern england will go into a stricter lockdown from midnight on tuesday night the netherlands and the czech republic are also with implementing stricter measures. the investigative website belling cat says a hit squad from russia's f.s.b. security service followed kremlin critic aleck's involved for years before his poisoning balun katz says a team of chemical weapons specialists were nearing a bombing the day he was poisoned he collapsed on the domestic flight in august and is now recovering in germany moscow denies any involvement. an explosion in afghanistan has killed 3 people including the deputy governor of the capital kabul

the interior ministry says unknown assailants attached a bomb to. be a cole no group has claimed responsibility for the attack and ivory coast president . has been inaugurated for a disputed 3rd term in office amid ongoing outcries from opposition parties more than 300 people attended the ceremony where we are called for national dialogue scores of people died in election related violence. 6 weeks after the us presidential election the electoral college has confirmed democrat joe biden as the winner of last month's election by now as a majority of the 538 electors they gathered in states across the country as well as in the capital washington to formally vote for the next president in a televised address after the announcement by the biden told americans their democracy still works despite accusations of voter fraud from president trump. it

is my sincere hope we never again see any was subjected to the kind of threats and abuse we saw in this election you know this battle for the soul of america democracy prevailed we the people voted faith in our institutions held the integrity of our elections remains intact and now it's time to turn the page as we've done throughout our history to unite to heal as i said this campaign i will be president for all americans well usually electors cast their ballots without incident or much attention so why has the electoral college been in the spotlight this year in as poll explains even weeks alfonzo biden was named the for some to vinegar of the 2020 lexan there were concerns that the electors who cost of vote would not hold up there and of the bargain but ultimately

those chosen few kept their word usually this process of the electress meeting is just a procedural act but like everything that donald trump touches it turns into a controversy the more chris see what donald trump last and joe biden will be officially president of the united states on generally 20 just 2021. well that comes as the u.s. has marked a major milestone in the fight against the corona virus the country has started administering the 1st doses of the biotech pfizer vaccine doctors nurses and other at risk groups are 1st in line for the shot with the u.s. death toll now surpassing 300000 millions are hoping that today will mark a turning point in the fight against the pandemic. a moment of hope in the u.s. most of all for frontline medical workers who were honored with receiving the 1st

coronavirus vaccinations in the country this is the beginning of the end for covert together as a community as a nation we can and this the 1st recipients seemed eager to convince others that the vaccine was safe it's very important that when the vaccine comes that we confident in the science it is ok to say you are doing well elsewhere in an effort to show government confidence in the shot acting defense secretary christopher miller also took his jab on camera. that's it oh i thought i heard all. advisory panels in the u.s. and the u.k. have determined that the benefits of the shot fine outweigh the risks yet one in 3 people in the u.s. say they won't take it sorry i'm not interested i will never take it out of my dead body i don't think i. i don't know why so.

a lot of people. logistics pose another challenge because the country is so big and the concoction so fragile the bio on take 5 vaccine has to be kept at a chilling minus 70 degrees celsius a deep temperature requiring massive amounts of dry ice. despite all this u.s. officials are preparing for the largest vaccination campaign in the country's history along with front line workers the elderly are also 1st in line to get inoculated as coronavirus cases climb sharply u.s. authorities have set a goal of vaccinating every willing american by midway through next year. tougher locked out as on its way here in germany from wednesday on most stores and schools will have to stay closed in order to contain the spread of coverage 19 the

eastern state of saxony has seen a search in new coronavirus cases it is not waiting for the rest of the country to implement the new lockdown get abused as a voter has more. the city of bolton with medieval charm and historic lanes the touristic highlight in normal times but now the streets are empty the shops are closed the region has some of the highest corona virus case numbers in the country the strict lockdown has been imposed 3 days before it is introduced in the whole of germany. for the city's mayor a necessary step. in order people want to be involved in the decision making process that is why you buy it but recommendations but when that didn't work we started introducing bans again as a last resort we are in a situation where we must use this last resort to prevent the cases from exploding even further you know some of. this explosion in cases comes as

a surprise for many in this relatively rule and quiet part of germany which had so far gotten quite well through the pandemic we ask around to hear what people have to say about the missions. and i think the measures a simply right and necessary look many. sad to see everything going down the drain like this there really is a lack of perspective jobsite going bust. after through and demanded to i don't know whether the measures are really necessary in my opinion testing should be done differently we should test for corona and for influenza because well the flu patients we normally have every year. we visited today and now is to close his shop due to the lockdown measures. and again encountered skepticism when it comes to cope at 19. or does it was thought as

i don't believe that the virus 66 or that is around here so it must have been produced by someone because the world alone doesn't create such a fires. and then now the speck seen after such a short sign. that is something i can't believe this is the information offered to pay for the may of the people to ny and the reality of covert 19 i'm not representative of the majority view here and we don't have more people who question the virus and go protesting here than another regions they are not the majority they are very loud intolerant minority want to remark. to them and everybody else the lockdown is now sending a clear signal of just how far away from normal times. ok let's take a look at some other developments in the pandemic now the drug maker moderna says hackers accessed documents related to its covert 19 vaccine candidate during

a cyber attack on europe's medicines regulator israel is starting the 2nd phase for a vaccine that if successful could be rolled out next summer and the u.s. department of agriculture has confirmed the country's 1st known case of the corona virus in a wild animal a make. or the pen demick has forced germany's conservative c.d.u. party to push back its election of a new leader until january 2nd to the shoes of any longtime party leader is a daunting task at the best of times but 3 men think they've got what it takes and they've been holding their 1st debate. so time uncle americal c.d.u. party as it gives up to choose its nearly 3 meet the 3 contenders hoping to lead the c.d.u. maybe germany into the post mac era i mean let's sit them after ally and traditionalist banani from china 59 years old my name is army last year and i'm

a passionate christian democrat of caught. patient matts a former makah adversary who means when saying things like this. this is politics nobody's are replaceable he feels. and then there's no votes but initially the wild card is beginning to look like you might have a chance as this mission is not you will be as it used to be we need to rebuild everything. as head of the foreign affairs committee of it going is most concerned that europe could be the big loser from the corona crisis if. we see that asia above all china but also other asian countries are already more dynamic again even in this phase of the pandemic than we are we're about to see a big global competition. this was more of a political beauty contests than every other debate the current front runner for

math has the concerns about he sees germany's christian democrats called on to unite europe. between the thoughtful approach the question whether we want to play in the local legal the champions league and i want the european union to play in the top league as state premier of north rhine-westphalia i mean last it sounded more like a man of the people he was the only one around the table with corona crisis responsibility. the social question must be at the center after this pandemic you must avoid companies like amazon being the big winners. under given it. in the end it comes down to how much of a break from the macro era the c.d.u. party wants from its next leader $1001.00 delegates will make that choice in january. chief political editor there is following the party leader race

for us good morning mr taylor 1st of all i want to ask you about the optics of this debate it took place in a small studio we saw the 3 candidates sitting at one table not that far apart from each other there were more than a dozen people on hand is that the right signal almost a day before a hard lockdown goes into effect in germany. well i would want to does but no doubt it's a tricky one all kept the minimum distance is the counter argument from the c.d.u. and there are those quick tests that can be done but in fact one party conference was already postponed exactly because of those concerns of a corona now the city wants to go fully digital it will become the 1st party to hold a digital vote for the party leadership then verified by a post of ballot because german regulations simply aren't up to the requirements of the digital age and this corona crisis so for now there didn't seem to be any alternative ok so we saw the 3 men facing off against each other who is favored at

this point. well fishman former adversary of angela merkel he's a very global talking candidate who wants to put the conservative back into the c.d.u. but having said that nobody can is currently 2nd place in those popular polls followed by i mean less as he looked like something of a natural successor after the woman in this really tipped to follow that angela merkel footsteps and include come count so sorely failed here and many but those are popular polls nobody can truly look inside the heads of those 1001 delegates who come from those conservative c.d.u. regions so it's still an open race and other candidates could come forward still in january were about the fact that there were no women on the stage didn't the c.d.u. want to become more female. yes it desperately does want to become more female and that's why 2 of those candidates of valid to have

a woman as someone to coley to the party to also be in high office a lot of pledges of paris see there's a lot of soul searching what needs to be done but the matter of fact is these are middle aged to older white men between the ages of 55 and 65 so a stark contrast to the 1st woman tom. little editor of the shellac of snow reporting for us thank you so much. well the coronavirus pandemic has meant disaster for performers and entertainers the world over in india the lockdowns even shut down bollywood but it's resulted in an unexpected boon for independent musicians industry data shows a sea change do it yourself performers have found followings on facebook and other online streaming sites and it's not just the easy access that makes these acts popular with young music fans here's why. you can leave you with the.

money for it like you did. just one independent musician finding a new audience that must be. their online videos tackling social issues have struck a chord with millennial zz looking for him to time and while india's film industry is on pause. so because of the. the blood of women music and movies we know it's easy. to have a day to explore you know that i think people. will be interesting to experimental music but its name is a. big name stars and movie melodies usually dominate the charts in bollywood obsessed india. but during the pandemic norm feel music is filling the vacuum. in india more than 75 percent or probably more than that. of the consumption of

music happens on the film. so if you can understand out of every 100 songs of even 5 songs our own songs and they are not using so that opens up all the independent editions do. the most musicians like rafa do a rocka the formal way to sun fame with viral videos about the plight of migrant workers stranded during india's lockdown. people walking fountains of kilometers to get home i feel terrible watching these scenes. i couldn't go anywhere and i had all my ball fun so i recorded the track and upload.

it. after i uploaded my song i received a lot of support many of my friends shared the clip and i got a lot of appreciation was going to. push the likes of little my layout of the spotlight. but for now musicians i have. to keep. ok let's get a reminder now of our top stories we're following for you here on g.w. the international criminal court has rejected calls from exile to investigate trying not on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity the court noted china is not a signatory to the tribunal meanwhile the report contradicts chinese claims that leaders are being reeducated the camps and released it says many are simply being moved to prison. and the u.s. electoral college has formally confirmed joe biden as winner of last month's

election in a televised address president elect biden told americans there was time to turn the page on the trump era and that democracy had prevailed. coming up next our showcase called the bundesliga highlights for match day 11 statements about.

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