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this is deja vu news from berlin forcibly sterilized and tortured for not speaking the language and explosive d.w. report from should jack on the repression of leakers inside china reeducation camps . cameras everywhere you were not allowed to possibly scratch your head or cry if they saw that they would force you want to a metal chain or 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 he says 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 fire.

vaccine. and the cup a pandemic gave them some undeserved bad press but it's also one of the world's most endangered mammals a look at efforts to protect the package. i'm assuming some us gun that's good to have you with us we start with what critics have called the 21st century genocide china's locking up and so-called re-education of more than 1000000 weekers and camps in the region exiled weekers have been dealt a blow by the international criminal court it has rejected calls to investigate beijing for alleged genocide and crimes against humanity because china is not party to the tribunals well china maintains its goal is to reeducate people and steer them away from islamist extremism weekers say that beijing is trying to wipe out every trace of the muslim minorities identity correspondence by ts printing and

julia have this exclusive report. scenes of a family outing with 000 ad hom her husband to us from john and the little daughter by are in turkey a safe location for an hour but for good 0 a normal life is still far away she says she does not feel safe and we. don't want 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 and the things they did to him and their haunt me i don't feel sick for a few days and i can't sleep i argue with my family i even think about hurting myself. in 2000 serving in cuz i stand at the time on a trip back to china she was detained by police and then held for a year in several reeducation camps. in t.n.

good 0 hour hand was arrested in sindh junk china's western most 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 this region she's an ethnic caza born in china and was live they tortured us they had cameras everywhere you were not allowed to pass scratch your head or cry if they saw that they would force you want to a metal chair they would make if you forgot them they used electroshock device on your head back and cause i stand 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 county was one of the camps 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 a training centers and declared that by 2019 all trainees had graduated but 0 as also told us that many of our former inmates would later transfer to regular prison on the outskirts of 2 more facilities. 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 or stuff that. no one down if you film here we will have to take measures against you in this place is a state secret from the media. 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 controls the

realisation and. in the camp was 0 recalls the inmates were administered injections of women known substance. the 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 come it would come if not not we stopped being ashamed about it at some point we didn't stop thinking of home most of us had stopped crying by then to me. who zeroes one of the lucky ones she was finally allowed to leave after her husband had complained for her in kazakhstan she has no news from her relatives in the region. that report from a correspondent yes belanger and he joins us from beijing from morhaime a ts a you have just returned from shin jang what was it like to report there.

so it's very difficult to report from there you're being followed around cones constantly in most places it depends a little bit on the location the local authorities seem to have different approaches in some places you are followed by these plainclothes policeman from a distance and they had to if you feel once you approach for example a prison or account like we've seen in that case sometimes they even want to let you take pictures off the streets and of course anybody you 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 shop 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 want 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 execute 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 compay on their behalf even being causes citizens because kazakhstan has allowed them to me immigrate into kazakhstan for the last few decades so some of them have both nationalities otherwise it's very difficult that people do not have passports police has taken away postulates for most people in the region and it is just quickly we know international pressure is growing on

beijing has that at all had any impact on their treatment of weavers. it has had an impact on what beijing is saying about the comes they used to say there were no camps now they say that the area 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 take a look now at some other stories making news around the world the boko haram jihadist group says its fighters carried out friday's kidnapping of hundreds of students from a school in northern nigeria days after the raid the government said it was negotiating with the armed men boko haram was also responsible for abducting hundreds of schoolgirls in the town of chibok in 2014 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 my. vehicle no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. ivory coast president of the senate with tata has been inaugurated for a disputed 3rd term in office amid ongoing outcries from opposition parties more than 300 people attended the ceremony where ottar called for a national dialogue scores of people died in election related violence. and german police say they have arrested another suspect in last year's robbery of priceless jewelry from the famous greenbelt museum in dresden only last month investigators arrested 3 young men 2 suspects remained on the run now one of them has been detained in berlin. russian president vladimir putin has congratulated joe biden on his victory just hours after the us electoral college officially confirmed

him as the winner of last month's election a statement from the kremlin quoted putin as saying he was ready for collaboration while the official vote by the electoral college paves the way for congress to accept the outcome of the election when it comes together on january 6th incumbent president donald trump has yet to recognized by the victory. it was the state of california that tipped the scales at the electoral college. california the most populous state in the united states will be formally have to get the votes for the winner of our state's popular vote through civil war biden and vice presidential running mate california's own her. across the u.s. state elections confirms the popular vote formalizing joe biden's victory in the november elections the president elect's hail to the democratic process in america politicians don't take power people group power to them. the flame of democracy

was lit in this nation a long time ago and we now know nothing not even a pandemic or an abuse of power can extinguish that flame. president trump has refused to acknowledge defeat citing baseless claims of election fraud he's launched a string of lawsuits to overturn results in battleground states courts have rejected every one but last week the supreme court dismissed a lawsuit and just invalidating results in 4 states that biden had won. it's a position sarge 3 we've never seen before a position that refused to respect the will of the people refuse respect the rule of law and refuse to honor our constitution thankfully a unanimous supreme court a media plea and completely rejected this effort trumps brazen accusations have

stoked anger among his supporters leading to threats of violence to politicians and election officials in states such as michigan alexis had to cost their votes amid tight security. most republican lawmakers have so far backstrom flailing attempts to overturn the election those are looking even less viable after the electoral college confirmed by dins win but trump loyalists could mount one last desperate attempt when congress confirms the electors vote on january 6th. peter while a doll is following the story for us good morning peter so is president trump's attempt to overturn the results now over. well i think this is definitely the closest we're going to get to. you know this finally being over. you know it means that trump may continue to push some of these claims and various courts but they're all that should be futile like most of his other many many attempts have been over

these past weeks i think ultimately this is more about from continuing to try to drum up the base keep in mind we have a key we have key senate races in january that will determine the control of who controls the senate whether it's republicans or democrats and and donald trump really need to keep firing or point fuel in that fire he's kept rich retreating even after these states solidified by when. he kept repeating false claims about fraud so it doesn't look like he's going to back away from that rhetoric but it definitely means that he has very few if any at all avenues left to dispute the selection of the consequences of that have been serious peter some states impose that security there are concerns over the safety of the electors of lawmakers as well receiving threats how unusual is this. this is highly unusual i mean usually is this is really just

a formality this is an afterthought that most americans don't even pay attention to it really underscores i think just how divided the country is that the plight of heritage and that not even republicans can really feel safe from the wrath of from supporters i mean keep in mind 70 more 1000000 some 74000000 voted for trump not all of those are ardent from supporters but the portion definitely is and those are people who refuse to acknowledge the fight in president elect biden and vice president elect come all the harris asked legitimate president and vice president that poses a huge challenge the united states going ahead and also really just underscores again you know donald trump may be leaving office but trump isn't very much going to continue to hang like a big fat dark cloud over the united states. politics

and democracy and peter just really quickly take us to the next step the electoral college votes are counted in congress what happens there. right ungenerous 6 there's a going to be a joint session of congress where both houses the or both chambers the house representatives and the senate me to really confirm the electoral college votes some republicans have that they will go to to try to maybe slow down the process but we're trying to object to some of these votes there's very little chance of that going anywhere although that could really happen there is maybe delay the process but democrats continue to control the house. president elect biden and vice president small harris look all the treasure to be confirmed and will be inaugurated on january 20th you know these peter when a dollar reporting for us thank you. well that comes as the u.s. has marked

a major milestone in the fight against the coronavirus the country has started a ministry in the 1st doses of the biotech pfizer vaccine doctors nurses and other athletes 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 and this is the beginning of the end for coal fit 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 took off in the science it is ok to take your elsewhere in an effort to show government confidence in the shot acting defense secretary christopher miller also took his

job 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 far 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 over my dead body. i don't know why. 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. a tougher lockdown is 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 surge in new coronavirus kay says it is not waiting for the rest of the country to implement the new lockdown test of outer has more. the city of belts 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 coronavirus 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 boil 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 are simply right and necessary but many. sad to see everything going down the drain like this there really is a lack of perspective jobsite going bust is going. up that's one democrat 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. it was thought of as i don't believe that the virus 6 it's all but it is around here so it must have been produced by someone because the world alone doesn't create such a virus. and then now the speck seen after such a small sign. that is something i can't believe this is the formation of an offer to work for the mayor the people to ny and the reality of covert 19 and not representative of the majority view here and we don't have more people who question the virus and go protesting here than another for each and they are not the

majority they are very loud intolerant minority want to remark. to them and everybody else the lockdown is not sending a clear signal of just how far away from normal times we stew. let's take a look now at some of the other developments in the pandemic the drug maker moderna says hackers accessed documents related to its covert $1000.00 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 the u.s. department of agriculture has confirmed the country's 1st known case of the corona virus in a wild animal a mink a new media investigation has found that a group of russian special agents followed opposition leader alexina volley for years before he was poisoned the summer the report says the agents from russia security service the f.s.b. were part of an intelligence team specializing in toxins and nerve agents.

an independent thorough investigation of a crime that the russian government refuses to consider investigative website belling cat reveals a story about a specially trained team of russian agents with the goal of poisoning dissident aleksey novell me with a deadly nerve agent chalk. at the moment it's no value i found out who tried to kill me i know where they live and where they work i know their real names their fake names and i have photos of them. belling cat worked with russian news organization the insider german newspaper der spiegel and us broadcast to c.n.n. to map out evidence that novell me was being followed by the russian security service the f.s.b. well before the incident and even revealed previous attempts to poison him. at that this is a story about a secret group of killers from the f.s.b.

which includes doctors and chemists it's about how they tried to kill me several times and once nearly killed my wife you won't hear about this on t.v. especially that the one giving orders to this group is russian president vladimir putin. they used publicly available flight logs and other information to back up their claims. and we did this we found that there were 3 people who had the same bioterrorism bombing and they were really surprised we looked more of these people and we notice that these people want to get our colleagues had fallen about only for over 30 trips to 2070 practically every time the only one around russia because he was a presidential candidate i'm sorry in 2017 these people had the exact same track work and probably not all that. an anti corruption activist in kremlin critic felt dangerously ill on a flight from siberia to moscow organist he was later flying to germany's capital berlin for treatment and was in an induced coma for 2 weeks. german french and

swedish laboratories have determined he was poisoned with the soviet era nerve agent the chalk. only has long held the kremlin responsible for his poisoning accusations moscow has repeatedly denied. now the little scaly animal on the screen behind me got a lot of unwarranted negative press at the start of a pandemic but that pangolin is one of the most trafficked and in danger of mammals on the planet and now a group of volunteers is out to save their skin or scales. a sting operation stops these men in their tracks purchase about to meet a potential buyer in a parking lot in africa the backseat of their car plastic bag which police find a pangolin for sale. which animal is good. rescue quickly take it to a vet you see penguins in

a variety of different and physical states some are very messy ated their skin little they've got injuries that. it's pitiful is very very difficult to emotionally deal with that kind of suffering and abuse. the african pangolin working group in south africa a team of vets and wildlife experts have been rehabilitating pangolin rescued from poachers for nearly a decade. these shy and elusive mammals continue to fess innate the experts. you know these are. secretive nocturnal animals that quietly go around their business and that's all they do they have you know that they don't do anything any harm ever and suddenly they're picked up and they kept in these awful conditions and it's incredibly traumatic for them. one of these cats size can fetch up to $20000.00 u.s.

dollars last year alone $97.00 tons of penguin scales were seized from smugglers trying to take them out of africa and this equals about a 150000 poached animals and estimates are that that is only about 20 percent of the total figure and it's an endangered species so i think you everybody needs to do as much as they can to save even if it's just one of the every single handler is a difference if your species is considered endangered and if there's any possible extinction you have to do everything you can. once well rehydrated well fed and back to good health the rescued penguins are released back into the wild and hopefully out of the reach of purchase. now coming up next the new edition of our documentary series close up with a look at survivors in srebrenica 25 years after the massacre searching for that.

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fighting against for. and against a denial of the genocide in tripoli. that's haasan one of the churches mission she was 19 during the mass murders and. he survived today he's working to raise awareness about the genocide and to commemorating the victims 25 years i mean after the massacre close up. next. it all began with for a time. to come last. the soviet union and the soviet afghan war. what happened during the last bloody conflict of the call. of the

u.s.s.r. . in 45 minutes on w. . in these challenging times it's especially important to us the issue of how big of how the. current of ours has kept us apart from family and friends all. easy to feel alone especially during this holiday season we go to w. we're here with you we will keep you informed on all our plans for someone to remind you we're all in this together we wish you happy holidays merry christmas everyone a very merry festive season merry christmas and stay safe and healthy all the days everyone happy holidays to you again soon happy holidays and when it's day 6.

25 years after the genocide in srebrenica a son whose son of bitch is taking on the genocide denial he works in the memorial center which commemorates the mass murder in the serbian part of bosnia although he survived his father and his twin brother were both killed their remains only discovered years later somebody called my mother.