during the past few years the china's government has blamed on groups seeking an independent shin jang one of those attacks happened after a visit made by president xi jinping to the regional capital a room she in may two thousand and fourteen now human rights groups say that up to a million ethnic muslim we are being held in reeducation camps and that eventually they say all ethnic muslim we will have to pass through these camps now in early november which is perhaps why this documentary has been released now the united nations will have a meeting in geneva of one of its human rights panels this body has been investigating what's going on in shin jang and officials from china's government will be invited to present their side of the story also the outgoing u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has said during the past twenty four hours that what we're looking at in shin jang may be the biggest in term and of people anywhere in the world. the u.s. treasury department has hit iran with a new round of sanctions it's accusing a faction of iran's military recruiting child soldi

you have in changing a places that offer vocational training well on wednesday the government in shin jang revised the law that it passed in two thousand and seventeen adding three new articles and for the first time the law now refers to centers and it says that these centers will allow the authorities to quote educate and transform people influenced by extremism now human rights groups maintain that in fact the chinese government does maintain reeducation camps in shin jang and that there could be up to a million muslims in these camps these are people from the ethnic weaker community as well as the ethnic community now people who say they've been in these camps and have been able to flee china have testified that they are forced to denounce their religion and are made to study the thoughts the works of president xi jinping the question is why is china now announcing that this law is being revised now well in recent weeks and months china's government has come in for a lot of international criticism especially from the us vice president mike pence who referred specifically to the plight

you have in chin jang a places that offer vocational training well on wednesday the government in shin jang revised the law that it passed in two thousand and seventeen adding three new articles and for the first time the law now refers to centers and it says that these centers will allow the authorities to quote educate and transform people influenced by extremism now human rights groups maintain that in fact the chinese government does maintain reeducation camps in shin jang and that there could be up to a million muslims in these camps these are people from the ethnic weaker community as well as the ethnic community now people who say they've been in these camps and have been able to flee china have testified that they are forced to denounce their religion and are made to study the thoughts the works of president xi jinping the question is why is china now announcing that this law is being revised now well in recent weeks and months china's government has come in for a lot of international criticism especially from the us vice president mike pence who referred specifically to the plight

state media has released video of internment camps for we go muslims in the western province of shin jang despite international criticism the government has defended its treatment of the minority group it claims it's really educating people so that they can be part of a modern civilized world up to a million weak as have reportedly been detained in the camps of a serious china correspondent david brown reports from beijing. well for months china's government has denied the existence of these camps but this week the government appears to have broken its silence on tuesday night state controlled t.v. aired a documentary showing conditions inside these camps it says they are not reeducation camps but simply vocational training centers where we girls get to learn new skills like carpentry and sewing as well as learning a language mandarin and getting another lesson on religious extremism the aim of these camps say the chinese authorities is to put a shield to protect we girls from islamic extremism now there have been a number of attacks in sion jang during the past few years the china's gove

you have in chin jang a places that offer vocational training well on wednesday the government in shin jang revised the law that it passed in two thousand and seventeen adding three new articles and for the first time the law now refers to centers and it says that these centers will allow the authorities to quote educate and transform people influenced by extremism now human rights groups maintain that in fact the chinese government does maintain reeducation camps in shin jang and that they could be up to a million muslims in these camps these are people from the ethnic weaker community as well as the ethnic community now people who say they've been in these camps and have been able to flee china have testified that they are forced to denounce their religion and are made to study the thoughts the works of president xi jinping the question is why is china now announcing that this law is being revised now well in recent weeks and months china's government has come in for a lot of international criticism especially from the us vice president mike pence who referred specifically to the plight o

early november a united nations human rights committee that been investigating what's going on in shin jang will be holding a big meeting in geneva where representatives of china's government will be invited to present their side of the case the other reason i think is of course there's been an awful lot of international criticism and concerns over conditions inside these camps now china says these are not reeducation camps where ethnic muslim we girls are being brainwashed they say these are places where we girls are receiving vocational training learning skills such as carpentry and sewing the documentary last night had interviews with with we are saying how grateful they were to china's government from rescuing them from the clutches of terrorism now in shinji going during the past few years there have been a number of attacks that china's government has blamed on islamic terrorist groups linked to the weaker community there was one big attack in may two thousand and fourteen in the capital a room she that happened just after president xi jinping paid a visit there and ever since then ch

analysis of satellite images from the region of shin—jang that have been seen by the bbc suggest thating for re—education. our china correspondent john sudworth has been hearing the stories of some of those who have fled the region. you don't see long beards in xinjiang any more. they have been banned. mosques have fallen silent, with no sign of prayer. huge fences all around it. and walls are going up. this former school is what china calls a vocational training centre, but it looks more like a prison. from above, the grim details can be picked out. last year, the school had a football pitch. today, it's covered with what looked like accommodation blocks. watchtowers are visible. just reciting an islamic verse was enough, this man says, to put him in a chinese detention camp. he has now fled to turkey, but fears for his family back home. translation: i don't know where my mother and father are, all my brothers and sisters. the chinese government wants us to renounce our beliefs, our ethnicity and our humanity. china denies it is detaining uighurs. xinjiang's main muslim minority, wit

state media has released video of internment camps for a week of muslims in the western region of shin jang despite international criticism the government has defended its treatment of the minority community it claims its reeducating them so that they can be part of a more civilized world up to a million weak as reportedly put into such camps. is enjoying a tourism revival the industry had gone into decline following a series of attacks by armed groups on visitors and twenty fifteen al-jazeera spam a vile reports. tunisia's tourism industry is taken off the sandy beaches of seuss' in the northeast are again sophia is the general manager of hotel all four hundred eighty beds are fully booked even though the hot season has ended a little is brazil to come to the system in twenty seventeen we started to feel like european tourists are coming back and in twenty eighteen there was a remarkable increase in european tourism especially western european tourist traffic markets like belgian english luxembourg has and also french. scenes like these have not been seen since early two thousand and eleve

state media has released video of internment camps for weekend muslims in the western region of shin jang despite international criticism the government has defended its treatment of the minority community it claims is really educating them so they can be part of a quite modern civilized world up to a million week is have reportedly been put in such camps. yeah it's. camps reeducation facilities perspective is interesting here the whole narrative has really changed here especially over the years and there's global outrage really about the internment camps with widespread condemnation of the practices you can imagine mainly because the chinese government went from denying the fact that we were muslims were detained in camps then to admitting and officially defending the practice they say it was an effort to bring the weavers into a so-called modern civilized lifestyle now many online are responding to what they call a propaganda narrative of the chinese government they say these internment camps are primarily places of punishment and torture not for learning this person shared a this pictu