for an intricate monarch. see. starts december 10th. this is the the good news coming up today torture. and interrogations in china is really a tradition camps. to what she experienced as an inmate in an internment camp. we asked is still was doing enough to prevent the suffering of people like.

i'm british welcome to news asia glad you could join us a new report from a u.s. based think tank claims authorities in china west forcing hundreds of thousands of ethnic minorities to work in the region's cotton fields in china's northwest produces about 20 percent of the world's cotton cotton that is potentially making its way into the manufacturing chains. as you probably remember from the numerous times we have reported on chinese reeducation camps where experts believe some 1000000 ethnic. and other mostly minorities have been in thailand as a counterterrorism measure inmates who've been released have complained of torture beatings and indoctrination in chinese communist party thought your small. scenes of a family outing with 000 han her husband to son john and their little daughter by

on are in turkey a safe location for now but for good 0 a normal life is still far away she says she does not feel safe anywhere. the months 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 2017 good 000 hon was arrested in sin john china's westernmost region she's an ethnic aza 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 kazakhstan 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 the local government sought to portray the camps as well cation the training centers. the training centers are not at all like some media have described them as young students are not mistreated and their personal freedoms are not limited to is usually these are schools that help improve people's personal qualities. i traveled to the region to look for myself one of the camp school 0 was taken to was

middle school number 4 of your county satellite imagery shows how in 2018 a high wall was built around the school and huts were built in the courtyard today the school is back to what it was china has declared that all trainees have graduated a claim that is hard to very fine. and other facility where she was held sits just around the corner it is officially called a vocational technical school it was built in 2017 a high wall was later taken down and replaced with a fence its name is not found on educational websites official reports highlight that all trainees were farmers and herdsman from surrounding villages in this area that means mostly ethnic minorities. it is impossible to know under what circumstances they attend the school and while this does not look like

a high security prison the gates are closed the young men walk quietly in lines before entering the building they undergo a quick body check i am stopped by my mind. you can't keep up with the. because you're also told us that many of your former inmates were later transferred to regular prisons on the outskirts of 2 more facility. there are now 5 policemen following. a prison with watchtowers and another camp where both built in 2017 when the compay in against ethnic minorities took off. duty or 3rd theft. of the one town if you film here we will have to take measures against you on this place is a state secret rooms immediately who 0 stayed more than a year in the camp but even after she was officially released her ordeal continued on our way back we passed an industrial complex 0 was sent to work here after her

release state t.v. showcases the factory as a mark of successful poverty eradication. i'm getting free food and accommodation it is very good. these videos are showing off to the outside world their messages our nation is good people are being helped to make a living but no one works there voluntarily many women inside cried a lot there is no freedom there are cameras everywhere you'll have the bad day threaten you if you refuse to work here you will go learning we were working there because of fear. or to go learning means being sent back to the camp 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 servers are now calling what is

happening in the region of genocide after reports of forced mates were administered injections of them unknown substance. from local family after the injection some woman 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 even stopped thinking of home most of us had stopped crying by then. who zeroes one of the lucky ones she was finally allowed to leave after her husband had can paint for her and cause us to she has no news from her relatives in the region. and for more i'm joined by. his president of the world we go to congress and mr insert china's actions in these reeducation term serve been reported on and well documented for many years now do you think the world has acted sufficiently against this.

well as you say it is also genocide is increasingly a nice. white up me and several of the report but unfortunately. yes is some international reaction and just speeding talking but you haven't seen any action can stop the genocide it is a target so that's my problem tools into my money go on it's so it's. easy to read a book really little very much and our leaders are to see it but yes you can see all these e.u. this government. action some. chimes go in and. of junk. i don't often shout who had a drink eat all that genocide forced them or all of his clothes and yeah but.

whole lot of you can't see any contrary action from said i didn't know you meant country or some other country is the problem that's like chinese government continue continually and it is. not just he had a genius i mean. there are there on you said that the genocide again so we good people has been internationally recognized yet to despite the international criminal court has said it can't pursue or case against china for the in time of the week or so and other ethnic minorities do you think that legitimizes china's claims that these camps are just vocational training centers. well i see even if not you know caught yes this is a good start would. it be a yes but this is the closer call you don't know that china is not the number of

international car this is the reason solo you can't stand this but on the national board the international organization action that if you do go early an additional action so that's why. it is all. this. in the 1000000000 people who know the article was in china so all know and it said under any laws as it is yes we do try will. go into my show you are not. going there are people who were not so he whole this is all even all right or not can a couple of. course mean rather old now or new revelations that ethnic minorities in trend are being forced into picking cotton in the region

and cotton that is making its way into global supply chains is this something that requires a trend from the international community. she has this is this is. even worse than this is the worry and you just cited some company separately this is the law so. it is also about as government leading genocide the day and how did the cold end that we were forced to live on earth and so many distant company could you know who we were and the we were deep in their. liver and shipped them on what is never so that's my deep hole the whole the government and particularly distant government as a company should not be taught should not be thought of china is. this a crime against humanity genocide or so but so far so many in this in

a company called game it is it's not her kind of business and there's no why the company should be split he says china and she stole the last little we were taught even though only they can stop china don't produce are we live in there but because so much for joining us. that's it for today there's of course more on this subject on the do double dot com slash relieved now with images from across john for the past few years many of the cities have seen an increased security presence alongside a mosque in time purportedly to come to terrorism and provide economic development we're back to more of the same time to work.

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they are new to us it's all that. new i'm rachel join me for me for german sunday w. . post. what a year it has been for beirut with a devastating explosion in august and the coronavirus pandemic to complicate any efforts to restore its heritage we'll talk about those efforts in just a moment and also coming up. a new exhibition at london's victoria and albert museum is all about bags their function design and symbolism through the ages. and the independent artists collective female photographers dot org is trying to gender the way we look at body.

welcome to arts and culture after the shock of the explosion last august in the lebanese capital beirut reconstruction efforts are halting at best thousands of buildings were heavily damaged or destroyed including many from the era of ottoman rule and the french mandate colonial period and with the added strain off the pandemic residents are struggling many fear the cultural soul of their city once known as the paris of the middle east may never truly recover. following the explosion in beirut in many of the city's historic buildings in ruins. is an engineer who's working to cite the city's cultural heritage the banners hanging from badly damaged buildings messages of hope. the reason.

you know here's a key to connect to to to to hope so to music. it's really. the extent of the devastation around the ports is overwhelming. it's a volunteer crisis group which assesses the damage collects donations and coordinates reconstruction efforts 8000 buildings in the area are in need of restoration from here last. heated. in a very strong way we have more than $100.00 unit very critical situation and it's a race against time when the seas no rains come the foundations of the buildings could be damaged beyond repair that on has been mired in deep economic and financial crisis the banks have imposed restrictions on how much people can

withdraw from their accounts the terrorist across from leeds suffered a terrible blow their historic also a cultural museum was devastated the head of the family died of injuries received in the blast are left with a daunting task. you don't have the financial means to restore the entire house it's going to take millions and tens of millions and we don't have those funds. are not going these days the only ray of hope is the solidarity among the people here volunteers to help and we're really seeing the worst of the worst of what we have in lebanon which is anything. corrupt political political system and a non-government and we've got great lebanese that are volunteering to come in and save the house so we have to thank you thank you very much. beirut's cultural

heritage you saved it will be thanks to grassroots efforts. a very difficult situation there in beirut in lebanon and joining me is my colleague melissa holroyd melissa give us a bit more of a visual idea of the of the real extent of the destruction on the ground well this was a massive massive blast the $2.00 price on the 4th of august some $300000.00 people were displaced half the city was affects is thousands and thousands of buildings were damaged we're just looking at the images now. they are it's just they're just awful $640.00 historic buildings were also damaged. and many of those were built and autumn and rule or during the french mandate colonial period. so that you have the damage across the sea was just immense so what's what's being done to save that i know this just looks almost where do you begin and what are the major concerns obviously in the in the immediate yes in the winter

well in the piece where they talked a lot about the weather they're concerned a lot about about the rainy and about the rainy season coming but there's also another concern and that was and that's to do with developers coming in and buying up the damaged buildings people are very afraid people are concerned that people that they will use this damage as an excuse to demolish the buildings and then you know put up skyscrapers and this is not new this is been happening for decades across space routes where developers have come in and you know demolished these historic buildings and then put up whatever they want. so it sounds like it's an incredibly complicated situation on the ground and that really much of the work is being left to volunteers as we as we saw in the film because there's just huge mistrust towards the government yet there's lebanon is facing multiple crises at the moment there's the economic crisis there's a political crisis they also suffered in beirut. yeah. i think you were you

told me before you had some photos that you could show us of actually some of the building that was a ball on the under the might with the migration crisis as well they were hit very hard by coated and now and now the blast and sort of what they're going to do about that is you know is another problem there are things across by route and shortly after the blast what they did they went back to these buildings and they held up these photos that they've taken these postcard type photos stray sions often across a bridge photographer his name is joseph joseph who re and he together with gabrielle a cardozo they went around they took photos they documented for years the historic buildings that they've taken against the damaged buildings and they're lovely photos that beautiful photos there is part of a project called the boy out beirut project and you get a really nice idea of what the buildings looks like very moving stuff beirut

certainly has been rebuilt before and we wish all or all the best to the people of beirut for their for trying to in their efforts to preserve their cultural heritage thanks very much melissa holroyd for joining me. well it's certainly tough times also for exhibitions these days unlike many others london's victoria and albert is temporarily closed as the u.k. applies tougher restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus all the more gratifying then that we can let its latest exhibition out of the bag so to speak because it is all about bags from rucksacks to bertha's to birkin bags and how design function and style have made them the ultimate accessory bags that carry around a whole lot of history around $300.00 exhibits ranging from british prime minister winston churchill's dispatch box to handbags from the private collections of models electric and more banks found at the victorian museum preaches on loan

from some of the world's top designers and a fresh including friendly products and. to be honest we are all in this together it's been affected by this pandemic and have been really amazing about giving us permission. displaying their object. from the bag it was clutched by sarah jessica parker and her role as carrie bradshaw in the t.v. series sex and the searching in the late 1990 s. . it's actually quite funny the story. gets robbed all the shoes and all of a bag she. tells them i guess he corrects in which he says give me a bag she corrects him and she says this is not the bag this is if i get and this is like the moment where it's really symbolizes that moment in the history of the

handbags with the back phenomena. and the ninety's beginning of 2000. it's not just designers who give you free range to the bank imaginations are just like do you mean. so how they go he created the entomology bank for prada i really hope the people. when they think about the work. and across the world. goes back in time the oldest exhibit is from roughly 500 years ago if you want to get ahead. well how do female photographers see the world and do they have enough say in how women are portrayed female photographers dot org is an independent collective that

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