releasing vital coronavirus insulation to the world health organization according to the associated press beijing withheld a genetic map of the virus for than a week it happened as the world health organization was praising china for its response to the outbreak katrina you reports from beijing now this report threatens both the credibility of the world health organization and of china after trolling dozens of interviews and internal documents reporters from a.p. found that china was not forthcoming when it came to providing information about the virus during the early days of the outbreak that it stalled in terms of providing the virus genome to the public and also many world health organization officials were kept in the dark it also said that publicly world health organization spokespersons praised and rewarded chinese china's efforts but only in an attempt to coax more information out of the government now this flies in the face of the line that we've heard from tons foreign ministry for the past few months and indeed from president xi jinping himself who has said that beijing has always been

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an investigation by the associated press finds beijing is forcing ethnic uighur women to undergo sterilizations and abortions, in an effort to reduce the muslim population in the country. >> two months in a detention camp has left scars. even once u.s. release, this mother was not free. along with other uighur women in her area, she was forcibly sterilized. [speaking foreign language] >> we lost part of our body, we lost our identity as women. we will never be able to have children again. they cut out one of our organs, it is gone. >> a chinese born cossack narrowly escaped a detention camp. she alalso has three children. to avoid p prison for the multle births,, she was ordered to paya huge fine. she had already been forced to accept an iud birtrth control device.. now, she feels one of the lucky ones. [speaking foreign language] >> they g give shots and remove fefetuses forcefully. they won't ask the spouse's permission or anything else. if they say itit is illegal, thy make you get an abortion. those who did not obey were sent to the camamps. now people are terrified of giving birth. >> whil

what's been the government's response to the associated press report that beijing delayed releasing coronavirus information. well that's right the associated press came up with a report on tuesday alleging that beijing did not release the genome of corvet 19 for more than a week that the officials here in china confirmed it it also says that generally the world health organization was kept in the dark during those beginning days of the outbreak to the extent that world health organization officials resorted to lauding beijing's response flattering beijing praising beijing as a way to coax more information from the chinese government now this is not a new accusation many critics internationally have said that they've tried to cover up the seriousness of this outbreak during those early days but the associated press say they have that new evidence of this and they say that this is based on several interviews as well as internal documents now china's foreign ministry spokesperson mentioned that he said that he didn't know where these internal documents came from but he said that these were untrue

releasing vital information about corona virus to the world health organization according to the associated press beijing withheld the genetic map of the virus for more than a week all this happened as the world health organization was praising china its response to the outbreak katrina you has that story from beijing. now this report threatens both the credibility of the world health organization and of china after trolling dozens of interviews and internal documents reporters from a.p. found that china was not forthcoming when it came to providing information about the virus during the early days of the outbreak that it stalled in terms of providing the virus genome to the public and also many world health organization officials were kept in the dark it also said that publicly world health organization spokespersons praised and lauded chinese china's efforts but only in an attempt to coax more information out of the government now this flies in the face of the line that we've heard from china's foreign ministry for the past few months and indeed from president xi jinping himself who has said that beiji

carrying out demographic genocide against its weaker muslim minority an investigation by the associated press claims beijing is forcing we are women to undergo birth control in a bid to reduce the muslim population a.p. says it has evidence that women in the far west region. have been subjected to forced sterilization and even abortion to slash the birth rate. 2 months in a detention camp in shin junk has left scars on wood but even once she was released this mother wasn't free along with other we grew women in her area she was forcibly sterilized. that's what a lot of luck when all the parts of our body we lost our identity is women we will never be able to have children again they cut out one of our organs it's gone. to. a chinese born kazakh narrowly escaped a detention camp like zoom right she also has 3 children to avoid prison for the multiple births she was ordered to pay a huge fine. she'd already been forced to accept an i.u.d. birth control device. now she feels one of the lucky ones because they will most americans if they give shots andrew fetuses forcefully. they won't ask their spouses permiss

releasing vital coronavirus information to the world health organization according to the associated press agency beijing withheld a genetic map of the virus for more than a week this happened as the world health organization was praising china its response to the break katrina you reports now from beijing. now this report threatens both the credibility of the world health organization and of china after trolling dozens of interviews and internal documents reporters from a.p. found that china was not forthcoming when it came to providing information about the virus during the early days of the outbreak that it stalled in terms of providing the virus genome to the public and also many world health organization officials were kept in the dark it also said that publicly world health organization spokespersons praised and rewarded chinese china's efforts but only in an attempt to coax more information out of the government now this flies in the face of the line that we've heard from china's foreign ministry for the past few months and indeed from president xi jinping himself who has said that beijing has alw

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beijing after an increase in cases there. now an investigation by the associated press as one of the chinese government is forcing ethnic weaker women to undergo undergo sterilizations and abortions the goal of the measures is to reduce the country's muslim population critics say the alleged policy amounts to eugenics. 2 months in a detention camp in shin jiang has left scars. but even once she was released this mother wasn't free along with other we grew women in her area she was forcibly sterilized. that's. when all the parts of our body we lost our identity as women we will never be able to have children again they cut out one of our organs it's gone. to. a chinese born kazakh narrowly escaped a detention camp like zoomer at she also has 3 children to avoid prison for the multiple births she was ordered to pay a huge fine. she'd already been forced to accept an i.u.d. birth control device. now she feels one of the lucky ones because. they give shots andrew fetus is forcefully wrong. they won't ask the spouse's permission or anything else. if they say it's illegal they make you get an abortion those who didn't have bay were

all surprised by some of the harrowing findings noted in this associated press report thank you for that katrina you live there from beijing half a 1000000 people around the world have now died from corona virus despite attitudes and restrictions relaxing that number continues to grow more than 4700 people are dying every day the curve is flattening but many countries are yet to control the spread of the virus the us brazil and parts of asia have struggled in recent weeks with india seeing sidestreet days of record cases. this is a country that's free or safe with this virus i mean some countries of some small pacific islands for instance have been over to bring down the numbers right down but it will if the bars anyway it's everywhere and that's really been demonstrated this week when some people can't well people especially in the northern hemisphere where they're enjoying a summer they sky new forgot that this threat is there and unfortunately it's really come back to bite us a quarter of all infections and deaths are in the u.s. which is a worst hit country now several states are walking back the relaxing of restrictio

when our correspondent katrina year is in the capital beijing she says the policies described in this association press reports are much harsher than there is applied to the majority han ethnic group. now it is true that hand women have since been subject to the same fines if they have more than 2 children but they are certainly not born into any detention camps or subject to any sort of forced abortions or forced sterilizations as we've seen nor is it in this associated press report conversely hand women actually around the country have been encouraged to have a 2nd child because of worryingly lower birth rates across china now we also know that. people who are members of the weak a community have been strongly encourage not to marry other week but into the hand majority analysts say that this is another long term policy to dilute the population the weaker population does appear that that would be working we know in 1949 according to official figures 90 percent of the population in sion john were weak as in 2018 only 47 percent were weak as now china's foreign ministry today on monday responded to thi

kicked out of china if it pushed beijing too hard on vital information during the early days of the pandemic that's according to an investigation by the associated press which says the data could have dramatically slowed the outbreak internal recordings reveal that the world health organization was frustrated at the lack of cooperation from beijing but the un agency continued to praise china publicly throughout january as a means to secure more information about covert 19 china refused to release the genetic map or genome of the virus for more than a week after that fully decoded the information beijing only released that data after it was published on of the roma just websites and it took a further 2 weeks for china to provide more information on patients and cases david i xander is a professor of risk and disaster reduction at the university college london he says it's not clear if data sharing earlier data sharing would have stopped the virus from becoming a global pandemic. it is important i think that china was slow to provide the necessary information and that is not uncharacteristic of the way china behaves in these cases it tends to be suspici

kind of virus outbreak that's after the associated press published an investigation which found that the world health organization officials heaped praise on beijing in order to coax out more information between e.u. ripples beijing when news of the virus and in january the world health organization looted beijing's perspire we were very impressed with the level of engagement of the chinese government at all levels. but while the un agency praised china in public privately officials were reportedly frustrated by a lack of transparency and investigation by the associated press concluded that chinese health officials not only withheld information about the outbreak they also delayed distributing the card $900.00 by several days chinese health officials told the public that the possibility of human to human transmission over the w hey joe tweeted in agreement but behind the scenes agency staff were apparently skeptical 100 train china positively as w.h.o. director at honda did during a meeting that she didn't peeing in late january was said to be used as a strategy to gain more information china's foreign ministry says the associated press report is

kicked out of china if it pushed beijing too hard on vital information during the early days of the pandemic that's according to an investigation by the associated press which says the data could have dramatically slowed the outbreak internal recordings reveal a double was frustrated at the lack of cooperation from beijing but the un agency continued to praise china publicly throughout january as a means to secure more information about covert nineteen's but china refused to release the genetic map or genome of the virus more than a week after it had fully decoded the information beijing only released that data after it was published on a roller just website and it took another 2 weeks for china to provide further information on patients and cases katrina new reports now from beijing. now this report threatens both the credibility of the world health organization and of china after trolling dozens of interviews and internal documents reporters from a.p. found that china was not forthcoming when it came to providing information about the virus during the early days of the outbreak that it stalled in terms of providing the virus genome to the public and

january that is according to an investigation from the associated press which is funded the world health organization officials heaped praise in beijing in order to coax more information between to you reports from beijing. when news of the virus in january the world health organization lutie perspire we were very impressed with the level of engagement of the chinese government at all levels. but while the un agency praised china in public privately officials were reportedly frustrated by a lack of transparency an investigation by the associated press concluded that chinese health officials not only withheld information about the outbreak they also delayed distributing the card $900.00 by several days chinese health officials told the public that the possibility of human to human transmission over the w.h.o. tweeted in agreement but behind the scenes agency staff were apparently skeptical $100.00 portraying china positively as w.h.o. director at honda did during the meeting but she didn't ping in late january was said to be used as a strategy to gain more information china's foreign ministry says the associated press report is untrue.

brian al jazeera let's hear now from katrina you who's in beijing and she says the population control policies described in the associated press report a harsher than those applied to the majority ethnic group. the government saying that they're basically just equalizing the family planning policy nationwide prior to 2014 we got families were allowed to have up to 3 children but then that changed and in 2014 they were subject to the same one child policy or that changed 22020162 or 2 child policy nationwide now it is true that hand women have since been subject to the same fines if they have more than 2 children but they are certainly not foreign into any detention camps or subject to any sort of forced abortions or forced sterilizations as we've seen nor is it in this associated press report converse li han women actually around the country have been encouraged to have a 2nd child because of worryingly low birth rates across china now we also know that. people who are members of the week of community have been strongly encourage not to marry other leaders but into the hand majority analysts say that this is another long term

the associated press is found evidence of a 4 year campaign in north western provinces experts say it's a form of demographic genocide against the weaker as many of who are muslim catrina you in beijing says china has been ounce the allegations but it has been encouraging women from the han ethnic majority to have more children. han women actually around the country have been encouraged to have a 2nd child because of worryingly lower birth rates across china now we also know that. people who are members of the week of community have been strongly encourage not to marry other week but into the hand majority analysts say that this is another long term policy to dilute the population the weaker population does appear that that would be working we know in 1949 according to official figures 90 percent of the population will weaken as in 2018 only 47 percent were weak as now china's foreign ministry today on monday responded to this report essentially calling the associated press report fake news it has always maintained that its policies in a national security issue was designed to prevent terrorism and extremism and separatism that there in response to very violent knife and bomb attacks

resort to praising china or lauding beijing's response to the outbreak as a sort of strategy in order to gain more information from the aging now the associated press says that this investigation was based on a number of interviews that they conducted as well as internal documents now in response to that jolly gen the foreign ministry spokesperson says that he doesn't know whether where these internal documents came from but these statements are untrue he also went on to give a bit of his own timeline as to what happened in january and he says that the chinese government gave the genome of coded 900 to the world health organization as soon as it was accurately confirmed so he said that there was no intention to withhold any of this information and then he said that china has been open responsible and transparent has also always cooperated with the world health organization and this is the line that beijing has maintained since the beginning of the outbreak has truly you bring is that update from beijing between the thanks very much indeed and the group of pro-democracy activists are calling for a global alliance against the new security law which c

investigation by the associated press has found evidence of a 4 year campaign in north western provinces china's government denies the allegations saying they're not based on facts will be live in beijing in just a moment but 1st alexia brown begins our coverage. never forget the day chinese authorities told her 3rd child was illegal she says she was threatened told to pay a fine of more than $2.00 and a half $1000.00 should be locked up in an 10 minute camp. to give shot. and remove fetuses forcefully if they say it's illegal to make you get an abortion those who didn't obey were sent to the camps now people there are terrified of giving birth. the associated press investigation is based on government statistics documents and interviews with women like a lawyer who say they knew people jailed for having too many children many received a prison sentence of years even decades government efforts to reduce birth rates and shinji young are both systematic and ruthless we're talking the mass forced insertion of intra year to run contraceptive devices we're talking threats of internment for those who violate birth control policies. zain says the brutal crackdown is part of government efforts