the chinese government is making no apologies for the way it is running shinjiang.at there has been a major crackdown there has been a major crackdown there in order to rein in violent islamic extremism and those who would separate shinjiang from the rest of china. the critics of the policy say that a lot of ordinary uighurs are caught up in this very same crackdown. however, the chinese government again says this is not being targeted at any ethnic group and is not designed to, in any way, stop people from practising their normal religious beliefs. our other top story this hour — thousands of mourners in north—east yemen have taken to the streets for the funeral of 51 people — 29 of whom were children, according to houthi officials. they were killed when the bus they were travelling in was hit by a plane from the saudi—led coalition fighting a civil war in the country. mark kaye from save the children says the lack of condemnation from governments including britain is shocking. our silence on this is deadly for yemeni civilians, it basically suggested the saudi and

strongly denied allegations that a million muslim uighurs are being held in detention centres in shinjiangnce. beijing says reports of the centres are completely false. it said uighurs enjoyed full rights and so called ‘re—education‘ camps did not exist. translation: the argument that 1 million uighurs are detained in re—education centres is completely untrue. on the freedom of religious belief, xinjiang guarantees citizens freedom of religious belief in accordance with the law and protects normal religious activities. that strong denialfrom china came despite a un human rights panel saying it had received credible reports that one million uighurs were being held in what resembled a "massive internment camp shrouded in secrecy." our correspondent steve mcdonell is in beijing following developments. china is coming under what appears to be increased international pressure over allegations that it's running a network of political indoctrination camps in the country's far west for ethnic uighur muslims. it is also facing the unusual situation of having to explain its government's policy in th