but a new document shows they are being held in the xinjiang region.he chinese authorities say they are their of their own free will and being given vocational training to help fight extremism. but german media and partners have evidence that contradict china's narrative. it seems to confirm what many have long suspected, that china is putting uighurs in prison based on their religion and their culture. naomi conrad of dw's investigative unitit has this reportrt. >> i wouldld never have found ot thatat my sisteter is in a camp without this list. >>>> it is a detaiailed surveile document. it is extremelyly likely this is auththentic. >> yeses, it's dangerous. but someone should tell the world what's going on there. naomi: istanbul. these men are uighur muslims from china. at home, they could be imprisoned for the simple act of praying. i quickly come to realize that each one of them has a story of loss. >> the fascist chinesese government wants to eliminate the uighur people of xinjiang, the e entire population of xinjiang, right in front of the eyes of

seen by the bbc provide new evidence of china's crackdown on uighurmuslims in the western region of xinjiang. apple warns it won't meet its quarterly revenue projections due to the coronavirus outbreak affecting both production and demand in china. with 800,000 people displaced since december combined with freezing conditions — the united nations says the offensive in idlib has created a major humanitarian crisis. and the world's richest man — amazon bossjeff bezos — says he's donating $10 billion to help fight climate change. documents seen by the bbc appear to provide some of the most detailed insights yet into how china has handled hundreds of thousands of muslims held in a network of internment camps. they include personal details of members of the uighur community, placed in detention for reasons such as wearing a veil, applying for a passport or accidentally clicking on foreign internet sites. researchers who've studied china's policies in the western region of xinjiang believe the documents are further evidence of an official campaign against the uighurs. the authorities have always d

seen by the bbc provide new evidence of china's crackdown on uighurmuslims in the western region of xinjiang. apple warns it won't meet its quarterly revenue projections due to the coronavirus outbreak. hello, i'm nuala mcgovern in london. also in the programme: restoring sight — how a new treatment is offering hope for those suffering from a rare eye disorder. and sri lanka's buddhist bhikkhunis, the equivalent of christianity‘s nuns, fight for recognition. good morning, it's 8am in singapore, and midnight in london. new evidence of china's crackdown on muslim minorities has been revealed — in a leaked document seen by bbc news. the file sets out how the authorities decided the fate of more than 300 uighur detainees — a fraction of the million or so held in secure facilities across the province of xinjiang. chinese diplomats deny that beijing was targeting any specific religious or ethnic group. our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, has been examining the document. for two years now, the bbc has reported on camps like these in western china where about a million uighurs and other mus

he was sent to xinjiang, a very re m ote born. he was sent to xinjiang, a very remote area , born.was sent to xinjiang, a very remote area, now they have the uighur people being put in the education camps. i guess this is different, because you are so very farfrom your different, because you are so very far from your homeland and so much of your artistic alp in china was sort of pushing at the edges of a repressive system, asking questions of it, challenging it, and now you are no longer in it. they are a bit relaxed, also i am a bit relaxed. i'm all look at china in a global view. you know, china is not china anymore, china is everywhere. you can see china in the us, china in the west, africa or south america. china is present everywhere. you mean because of its global economic reach? i think, yes, mean because of its global economic reach? ithink, yes, exactly, the global economic and clinical outreach of china is quite heavy. do you think the outside world, particularly the western world, because you base now in the kingdom, do you think we have come to terms now with what china

last summer he received this trove of documents from a source in xinjiang he won't identify for their was my birthday. and i got the attachment. very surprised. >> reporter: it is anwar, along with a patchwork of other uighurs living in he can i will who are sharing this information with the outside world. >> this document is like a microcosm of what isham happening all over xinjiang. >> reporter: this man has been studying what he is convince ready internal chinese government documents. >> this is the future of author tarpism, this is the future of changing populations who don't agree with the main regime in terms of identifiologist, virtuality, political identity, or other criteria. >> reporter: cnn's data analysis reveals among at least 484 people sent to camps, five were detained because they communicated with people overseas. 25 were detained for holding a passport without visiting a foreign country. and the most, 114 people, were labeled a threat for simply having too many children. those uighurs were sent to four different camps all apparently located within the same community.

documents seen by the bbc provide new evidence of china's crackdown on uighur muslims in the region of xinjiang. the documents appear to give a stark insight into china's decision to send nearly a million uighurs and other muslims into mass detention camps. beijing denys targeting any specific religious or ethnic group. the us technology giant apple warns it won't achieve its forecast revenues for this financial quarter because of the coronavirus outbreak. and this video is trending on bbc.com. it's a no—holds—barred video of an australian firefighter during the bushfire crisis, the most watched on the bbc news website. paul parker claims his profanity—laden rant against prime minister scott morrison is the reason he's been fired by the new south wales rural fire service, something they deny. more on our website — bbc.co.uk/news and the news app. now on bbc news, live to singapore for asia business report. apple warns it won't meet its revenue reductions due to the coronavirus out break. and americans are drinking less milk, leading to the decline of the dairy industry there. hello, and welcome

independently confirming anything in xinjiang is difficult. >> why you're here. >> on a recent visit. security forces harassed and blocked cnn from visiting the camp. >> however a cnn investigation tracked down huegers living in exile. who verified the identities of the eight of the families profiled in the leaked report. investigation takes us to istanbul. here i meet a mother of three who whose name is on the document. >> that is you. your name. >> her name appeared under case number 358. which revealed that her younger sister was sent to a camp in march of 2018. for supposedly violating china family planning policy. that is having too many children. >> this is the first information she's had about her family since 2016. >> many living over seas say communication with their family back home was completely cut off when china intensified its crack down in xinjiang. but some are risking their lives to expose this sensitive information. >> this is the first time you're speaking publicly. about these documents. >> yes. this is the first time. >> he is a activist living in exile in the n

the 137-page out in huge detail why more than 300 uighurs from one particular county in xinjiang wereonsidered for detention. some were detained because applied for a passport, had relatives abroad, or even because they had unintentionally landed on a foign website while searching the internet. others were held because they used to grow a long beard o used to wear a veil. others because they had a minor religious infection. the document was passed on to a uighur exile living who decided to make it public. >> of course 'mried about the safety of my relatives and sile because they want to protect themselves and their families,e thenll never prevent these crimes being committed. >> the document i hard to verify 100%, but experts who examined it told me they believe it is genuine. >> the entire internet campaign and the reasoning behind it reveals a very detailed and, in itself, entirely consistent worldview, one which we might like into the ideology of the medieval witchhunt which is her elite -- highly fearful of anything religious. >> but china insists that these are what they call voc

the headlines: new evidence of china's crackdown on muslim minorities in its western province of xinjiangas been revealed in a leaked document seen by the bbc. the document sets out how the authorities decided the fate of more than three hundred uighur detainees. the us technology giant apple has warned that it won't achieve its forecast revenues for this financial quarter because of the coronavirus outbreak. the company says that although its factories in china have reopened, they're not yet operating at full capacity. the united nations says the latest government offensive in syria has now displaced almost nine hundred thousand people since december. it has created a new humanitarian crisis in the region. in a rare public address, president assad has insisted his military campaign will continue despite the impact on his own people. a downing street adviser who's been widely criticised for his comments on issues including race and women in sport has resigned. andrew sabisky had only been in post for a short time. labour had called for mr sabisky to be sacked — for suggesting in the past

by the bbc provide new evidence of china's crackdown on uighur muslims in the western region of xinjiang. the documents appear to give stark insight into china's decision to send nearly a million uighurs and other muslims into mass detention camps. critics say the documents are evidence of a systematic witch—hunt. the us technology giant apple warns it won't achieve its forecast revenues for this financial quarter because of the coronavirus outbreak. and this video is trending on bbc.com. it's a no—holds barred video of an australian firefighter during the bushfire crisis — the most watched on the bbc news website. paul parker claims his profanity—laden rant against prime minister scott morrison is the reason he's been fired by the new south wales rural fire service — something they deny. that's all. stay with bbc world news. now on bbc news, it's hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. there are international laws and norm designed to prohibit states from bumping off their enemies, internal or external. but look around the world and it is clear those laws

the spreadsheet sets out in huge detail why more than 300 uighurs from one particular county in xinjiangtention. some were detained because they had applied for a passport. they had relatives abroad or had unintentionally landed on a foreign website while searching the internet. others were detained because they used to grow a long beard or used to wear a veil, or because they had a minor religious infection. some were guilty of violations of birth control policies, or simply being an untrustworthy person. the document was passed through intermediaries to asiye abdulaheb, a uighur exile living in amsterdam, who decided to make it public. translation: of course i am worried about the safety of my relatives and friends, but if everyone keeps silent because they want to protect themselves and their families then we will never prevent these crimes being committed. the document includes data gathered by communist party officials of uighurs‘ private and religious lives, what they eat and where, when they pray or go to mosque. and details of some 3000 family, friends and neighbours with whom th

more than 300 uighurs from one particular cou nty than 300 uighurs from one particular county in xinjiangd for a passport, had relatives abroad, or even because they had unintentionally landed on a foreign website while searching the internet. others were held because they used to grow a long beard, or used to wear a veil. others because they had a minor religious infection. the document was passed on to this woman, an exile living in amsterdam who decided to make it public. of course i am worried about the safety of my relatives and friends, but if everyone keeps silent because they want to protect themselves and their families, we will never prevent these crimes being committed. the document is ha rd to being committed. the document is hard to verify 100% but experts who have examined it told me they believe it is genuine. the entire internment campaign and the reasoning behind it reveals a very detailed, and in itself internally inconsistent worldview, one which we might liken to the ideology of a medieval witch hunt which is highly fea rful of medieval witch hunt which is highly fearf

new evidence of china's crackdown on muslim minorities in its western province of xinjiang has been revealed in a leaked document seen by the bbc. the document sets out how the authorities decided the fate of more than three hundred uighur detainees. the us technology giant apple has warned that it won't achieve its forecast revenues for this financial quarter because of the coronavirus outbreak. the company says that although its factories in china have reopened, they're not yet operating at full capacity. the united nations says the latest government offensive in syria has now displaced almost 900,000 people since december. it has created a new humanitarian crisis in the region. in a rare public address, president assad has insisted his military campaign will continue — despite the impact on his own people. now on bbc news — hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. there are international laws and norm designed to prohibit states from bumping off their enemies, internal or external. but look around the world and it is clear those laws are being violated, often with impunity. my g

the spreadsheet sets out in huge detail why more than 300 uighurs from one particular county in xinjiangpplied for a passport. they had relatives abroad or had unintentionally landed on a foreign website while searching the internet. others were detained because they used to grow a long beard or used to wear a veil, or because they had a minor religious infection. some were guilty of violations of birth control policies, orsimply being an untrustworthy person. the document was passed through intermediaries to asiye abdulaheb, a uighur exile living in amsterdam, who decided to make it public. translation: of course i am worried about the safety of my relatives and friends but if everyone keeps silent because they want to protect themselves and their families, then we will never prevent these crimes being committed. the document includes data gathered by communist party officials of uighurs' private and religious lives, what they eat and where, when they pray or go to mosque. and details of some 3000 family, friends and neighbours with whom they may be considered guilty by association. the

seen by the bbc provide new evidence of china's crackdown on uighurmuslims in the western region of xinjiangections due to the coronavirus outbreak affecting both production and demand in china. with 800,000 people displaced since december combined with freezing conditions — the united nations says the offensive in idlib has created a major humanitarian crisis. and the world's richest man — amazon bossjeff bezos — says he's donating $10 billion to help fight climate change.

a lot of people are suffering under this regime, people in tibet or xinjiang or people practicing religiont's why, for us, it's never a day for celebration. ♪ (cannons firing) >> narrator: the celebrations in gijing are underway, mark china's emergence as a global power. (marching band playing)an (shouting in mrin) presiding over the event is china's leader, xi jinping. (marching band continues) (parade playing over phone) back in hong kong, momo is getting ready for action on the streets. >> momo (in cantonese): >> xi (in mandarin, via phone): (live, over speakers): (fanfare playing) >> vincent (in cantonese): (shooting tear gas canisters) ♪ >> woman: >> lomi: >> narrator: lomi's team hastc split up to h the police response across the city. >> lomi: (tear gas canister hisses) (guns firing and popping inst ance) (people shoung) >> man: >> narrator: as the dayth progressesprotesters' anger agait china ramps up. >> man: >> narrator: a group of them surround a chinese tourist. >> man: >> narrator: there's growing suspicion of anyone from the mainland. >> man: (people shouting) >> man: (people

the spread sheet sets out in huge detail why more than 300 uighurs from one particular camp in xinjiang province were considered for detention. some were detained because they had applied for a passport. they had relatives abroad, or had unintentionally landed on a forward website. others were detained because they used to grow a long bea, used to wear a veil, or had a minor religious infection. some were guilty of violations of birth-control policies, or simply being an untrustworthy person. the document was passed through intermoiaries t a uighur exile living in amsterdam woh decided to me -- who decided to make it public. >> of course i'm worried about the safety of my relatives and friends, but if everyone keeps his silent because they want to protect themselves and their families, it will never prevent these kinds being committed. --crimes being committed. james: the document includes data gathered by communist party officials of uighurs' private and religious lives from what they eat and where and where they prayed andes mos and details on family and friends and neighbors with who

thousands of uighur muslims who've been held in a network of internment camps in the far western xinjiangl, such as how often they pray, whether they wear a veil or how their family members behave. china has always denied any religious crackdown, and says the measures are aimed at preventing terrorism. our diplomatic correspondent james landale reports. for two years now, the bbc has reported on camps like these in western china. a vast network of high—security facilities where about1 million uighurs and other minorities have been detained without trial. now we can report in more detail than ever on how and why they are detained. the chinese authorities call the camps "vocational re—education centres", where uighurs are brought to learn chinese and communist party doctrine, supposedly a way of preventing extremist terrorism. but a leaked document suggests these camps are part of a huge crackdown on religious practice. the 137—page spreadsheet sets out in huge detail why more than 300 uighurs from one particular county in xinjiang province were considered for detention. some were detained

it's believed that over a million uyghur muslims have been detained in the chinese region of xinjiang world, including right here in london. bbc london has spoken to relatives living in the capital who say they've not been able to contact their families back in china and are calling on western governments to act. any human being in this world, any seating, any race, does not deserve to be treated this way by a regime, by the government. we have a very small bowl, we have to be living in peace. you cannot take over a small portion of people. china should know. we were surprised. londoners should be able to keep the eu citizenship rights they lost because of brexit, says the mayor of london. sadiq khan is travelling to brussels today to lobby for the idea of associate citizenship, which would allow individuals to pay a fee in return for the ability to live and work in the eu. the mayor says he wants this arrangement to be "at the heart of talks about our future relationship". let's take a look at the travel situation now... good the travel situation now... service here but no serv betwe

page spreadsheet sets out in huge detail why more than 300 uighurs from one particular county in xinjiangunintentionally landed on a foreign website while searching the internet. others were held because they used to grow a long beard or used to wear a veil. others because they had a "minor religious infection". the document was passed on to this woman, an uighurexile living in amsterdam, who decided to make it public. translation: of course i am worried about the safety of my relatives and friends, but if everyone keeps silent because they want to protect themselves and their families, we will never prevent these crimes being committed. the document is hard to verify 100%, but experts who have examined it told me they believe it is genuine. the entire internment campaign and the reasoning behind it reveals a very detailed and in itself internally consistent worldview, one which we might liken to the ideology of a medieval witch hunt which is highly fearful of anything religious. but china insists these are what they call "vocational education centres". in a statement, the country's embas

seen by the bbc provide new evidence of china's crackdown on uighurmuslims in the western region of xinjiangue projections due to the coronavirus outbreak. hello, i'm nuala mcgovern in london. also in the programme: restoring sight — how a new treatment is offering hope for those suffering from a rare eye disorder. and sri lanka's buddhist bhikkhunis, the equivalent of christianity‘s nuns, fight for recognition.

when markets open tomorrow for the first time since the holiday in shanghai, and further in xinjiang,ct around $175 billion worth of capital and that's about sending a message of stability, to cut off any anxieties investors might have when the markets open tomorrow to stop no doubt there will be some negative sentiment about what the government has done to try to deal with it. also concerns about what the government will do going forward. as for the long—term impact, factories and businesses are shut and this is and businesses are shut and this is an economy already dealing with the slowdown in growth the like of which it has not seen in a considerable amount of time. but the government is constrained, it is already doing a lot to try deal with credit to liquidity in the system to try to cushion the blow. you wonder how much more it can do to try and negate the impact on the economy of a very unexpected event like this. robin brant, thank you. discussing more of the economic implications in china with our business correspondence katie prescott. as robin wasjust business correspondenc

guy: we are also just getting news that there will be a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in southern xinjiangchina, something potentially worth keeping eye on. let's talk about other data from around the world having an impact on the economy right now. in europe, pmi data seem to suggest the economic recovery is still on track. however, the headwinds are certainly growing. this is what the ecb chief economist philip lane had to say on the impact of coronavirus. >> the big forecasting headache is the virus, but in the base case where it is concentrated in the first weeks and months of 2020, this does not particularly have implications for the key medium-term element of our forecast, which is what drives our monetary policy assessment. monetary policy assessment. guy: he spoke to bloomberg a little earlier on. going us now, patrick armstrong, chief investment officer at plurimi wealth. what is your gut feeling at the moment about what is happening here? the market is starting to's -- starting to get more jittery. we are struggling to understand the economic impact. philip lane referencing the h

literally from xinjiang province up to the english channel and into the gulf with infrastructure and so forth. and finally a determination not to get caught up in any of these gulf disputes. c at this point they are primarily a financial, economic actor but over the last dozen years it has grown to $83 billion at around 20 or 25 billion but the bulk of that, 63 billion at focused on saudi arabis and the uae has focused on primarily energy related issues. every gulf country has signed a partnership now of some sort with china and china has not neglected iran as part of this even if it's not a part of the gcc. 11 % of china's oil imports comes from iran from a recent five-year period. i won't go into the belt and road initiative in more detail but that includes iran as well with the gulf countries. russia is not operating on the scale but its dependence on the global oil market that means it rose in diplomacy and then just to summarize russia quickly one focus with the gulf oil officials and in talking to them they mention russia now, not a member of opec, sits in on meetings as an obs

the situation is on the ground in who bay there is concern in the northwestern chinese province of xinjiang where nearly a 1000000 muslim leaders are detained and can't speak or activist groups are conditions in the camps could worsen any outbreak lisa grieve director of global advocacy at the weaker human rights project is calling for them to be closed a very small number of survivors of the camps have managed to be released. and leave china and come to free countries those survivors have testified to people having untreated health conditions a starvation diet as you said malnutrition so we know that the torture and mistreatment and bad poor health of all those people is well established and for that kind of population the risk of infection and even death from the infection is going to be astronomically higher right now today there is incredible confusion over statistics the national health commission has revised its categories and we know that the government is trying to has denied even keeping people in camps and yet we have documentary evidence from the survivors from satellite photos f

new evidence of china's crackdown on muslim minorities in its western province of xinjiang has been revealeds extremism. with me now is our diplomatic correspondent james landale. what do these leaked documents show? we've been reporting on the bbc for a couple of years the scale of the detentions taking part in this part of western china. what these documents do is they provide an extraordinary detail how and why people are chosen for their detention. it lifts a small lid on the thinking within the chinese system as to why people are detained. an extraordinary list. 300 people. a huge spreadsheet giving extraordinary details about their lives, how often they eat, they pray, who they meet and mix with. then it says why these people who have been to tour —— detained, should they be released, should they be re—interned? should they be released, should they be re—interned ? extraordinary reasons, some are straightforward, downloading extremist material of the intellect, but most of them are things like this person applied for a passport, they had relatives overseas, they unintentionally clicked