kalida akytkankyzy now lives in kazakhstan.amily members back in xinjiang were all taken to the camps, leaving her 14 grandchildren parentless. so she phoned their village official. kalida can't look for her family. anyone returning to xinjiang is likely to end up in the camps. so we look for her. the family home is locked and deserted. we call the village official. but he hangs up on us too. other families we've spoken to also give us permission to search for their missing relatives. but we find no one. only the signs of a giant vanishing. back on our official tour, job training, we are told, is crucial for people's transformation. how long does it take to learn how to make a bed? just to learn to make the bed, four months? we would call that brainwashing. in 2015, we filmed the crowds, young and old, turning up to pray at the id kah mosque. beards were easy to spot. four years on, the faces are clean—shaven. and this is the scene just before prayer time. inside, a few elderly men gather in silence. isn't the truth that what w

we try to look for kalida's missing relatives. the family home is locked and deserted.ll the village official. but he hangs up on us too. we find only the signs of a giant vanishing, and the shattering of countless families. john sudworth, bbc news, xinjiang. with all boeing 737 max aircraft grounded because of two disastrous crashes, distraught families are pressing for answers. in particular, they want to know why the planes were not grounded after the first crash in indonesia last november. investigations suggest the same flight control system was at fault when an ethiopian airlines jet crashed four months later. speaking exclusively to the bbc, some families claim the aircraft manufacturer put commercial priorities ahead of safety. if wrongdoing is revealed, they want criminal charges. simon browning reports. everywhere we look, there's a blank where she should be. struggling with their loss. nadia and michael's daughter samya rose was on a boeing plane that crashed in ethiopian. samya is right here. she was one of 157 people on board. how did those first couple of

kalida akytkankyzy has moved to kazakhstan but when she heard that the chinese camps had left her 14ildren without parents she phoned the village official. we try to look for her missing relatives. the family home is locked and deserted. we call the village official. but he hangs up on us too. we find only the signs of a giant vanishing and the shattering of countless families. john sudworth, bbc news, xinjiang. and johnjoins me now, from beijing. you've reported extensively on the treatment of muslim minorities by the chinese authorities. is anything likely to change as a result? well, china says its fighting violent extremism. it's even holding up violent extremism. it's even holding up what it's doing in xinjiang as a model for the international community, trying to find common cause with western rhetoric about the war on terror. what is extraordinary, i think, the war on terror. what is extraordinary, ithink, is the war on terror. what is extraordinary, i think, is when you go to turkey and you speak to some of those parents, is you discover that many of them had good jobs back i

kalida akytkankyzy has moved to kazakhstan, but when she heard that the chinese camps had left her 14dren without parents, she phoned the village official. we try to look for her missing relatives. the family home is locked and deserted. we call the village official. but he hangs up on us too. we find only the signs of a giant vanishing and the shattering of countless families. what our reporting has shown, i think, is the scale, the extent of what is happening in that part of the world. it may be a distant part of the world but it is vitally important. china says it's fighting for its security and stability. critics, though, would say it tells us an critics, though, would say it tells us an important lesson aboutjust what can happen in places where there are no fundamental rights or protections of legal freedoms. john sudworth with that special investigation there. let's take a look at some of the day's other news. this is the moment an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 struck in southern california. these pictures show the newsroom at a local tv station, kcbs, shaking as the quake

kalida akytkankyzy has moved to kazakhstan, but when she heard that the chinese camps had left her 1aed to look for her missing relatives. the family home is locked and deserted. we call the village official. but he hangs up on us too. we find only the signs of a giant vanishing and the shattering of countless families. 0ur china correspondent, john sudworth with that report. britain's oldest building firm — r durtnell & sons — has ceased trading, putting more than a hundred jobs at risk. the company, based near sevenoaks in kent, was founded in 1591, and has been run by 13 generations of the same family. the collapse means the firm has halted its £21 million project to refurbish the brighton dome. charlotte wright reports. this picture illustrates the proud history of britain's oldest building firm. it's been run by 13 generations of the same family. but now, a28 yea rs generations of the same family. but now, a28 years after it was founded, kent —based r durtnell & sons has ceased trading. there are buildings within touching distance of wherever we are around london that they would

kalida akytkankyzy has moved to kazakhstan but when she heard that the chinese camps had left her 1afficial. we try to look for her missing relatives. the family home is locked and deserted. we call the village official. but he hangs up on us too. we find only the signs of a giant vanishing and the shattering of countless families. john sudworth, bbc news, xinjiang. johnjoins us from beijing. an extraordinary bit of reporting. absolutely heartbreaking. it is hard to see the reason for those people to see the reason for those people to have hope? it has long been known that if china has been locking up hundreds of thousands of uighurs and adults than there must be an impact on wider society and children in particular. i think our report has quantified that, has shown the true traumatic impact, at least as much as we could. the idea behind the aduu as we could. the idea behind the adult pants, it has been well documented, it is the idea of thought transformation, that china, in its drive, it says, to the extreme of five xinjiang's muslim population is trying to bend them closer to the