she is one of many uighur people from the xinjiang province in china who live in exile.de a pilgrimage to saudi arabia. while there, he was arrested by the police. since 2009, china has launched a people's war on terror in xinjiang to say what they is islamist separatism after violent incidents like the bombing of a train station in 2014. today, it's believed over a million ethnic uighurs and other religious minorities are detained in camps across xinjiang. former detainees allege that those inside have faced torture if they refused to renounce their ethnic language and religion — a claim china denies. five uighurs were deported to china from saudi arabia. among them, i know three of them, i know personally. they deported more than 20 students, and i have their names and ids. so i can say 20. so why are these muslim led countries a p pa re ntly these muslim led countries apparently collaborating with china's crack down on the uighur people? in february last year, saudi crown prince mohammed bin samhan made a visit to his country's biggest trading partner, china. there he

only the interpreters present, xi explained to trump why he was building concentration camps in xinjiang. according to our interpreter, trump said that xi should go ahead with building the camps, which trump thought was exactly the right thing to do. and maybe don't believe john bolton. i certainly question his integrity. but donald trump admitted it. when he was asked, he said, well, we're in the middle of a major trade deal. we're in the middle of a major trade deal. mr. speaker, we are better than this. this bill, with this bill we can stand up against forced labor, we can stand up against genocide. we can stand up for religious freedom and the uighur people by defeating this motion to recommit and passing the uighur forced labor discl you're watching c-span, your unfiltered view of government. created by america's cable television company as a public service and brought to you today by your television provider. headed tont trump is duluth, minnesota this evening for his first campaign event following last night's presidential debate area we have live coverage and :00 p.m. eastern her

going to pay more than and frankly donald trump's individual wouldn't care about hong kong were xinjiangor taiwan. that makes his policy extraordinarily unprecedentedly aggressive but on president lee and coherent. is there any good in that aggression? the dragon has gone that far in china's aggressive behavior towards american allies china directly confronts and australia and canada written sweden the european union south korea the list goes on and on and like the view of the world may be a donald trump in world. donald trump has unleashed for xi jinping with all that happy talk at the end of the day he's going to break your knees if you don't do what he says. >> fascinating. let's move on to the question not of voter preferences with respect to trump orb biden but allies and adversaries preferences. i like each of you, you have discretion here to pick your favorite ally and adversary and tell me who you think a particular country prefer. i could ask specific questions of each of you but we will see how this goes. steven let's start with you. the canal and adversary. today they want to

. >>> health officials in china's western region of xinjiang say they're in the process of testing 4.7on people for covid, this after a single asymptomatic case was reported in cash guard city on saturday. authorities say that so far the mass testing has identified 137 additional asymptomatic cases. cnn's steven jiang joins me from beijing. the first detected case in over a week from mainland china. the good news, the incredible scope of testing they're able to marshall to get it under control. >> that's right, kim. from the chinese officials' perspective, this is a tried and true method that has worked well to contain several outbreaks in recent months. that's why in this instance as soon as they found the first case on saturday they launched the process again. mass testing and locking down four towns once they identified the cases you just mentioned. and this testing process is ongoing because they are going to test the nearly 5 million people. they're more than halfway done, but the whole process is going to be completed by tuesday. the beijing government is sending experts to the r

xinjiang is home to 11 million uighurs and other muslim communities who have been subject to a myriad of human rights abuses and repression. resides reportedxcessive lockdown measures during its first coronavirus lockdown. in germany, two counties have nogone into a de-facto lockdown as new coronavirus cases surge acrossuch of europe. in russia, a nationwide mask mandate has been reinstated as cases there surge. in medical news, scientists at astrazeneca said monday an experimental vaccine being developed at oxford university in britain has shown an immune response in both younger and older patients. meanwhile, researchers at imperial college in london found the number of people testing positive for covid-19 antibodies has fallen by 26% between june and september, suggesting immunity fades rapidly and people who have recovered can be re-infected. in more medical news, drug maker eli lilly said monday its antibody treatmentas ineffective on hospitalized patients with advanced cases and that a government-sponsored trial would stop administering the drug to new patients. the trump admini

china has begun inoculating people in the city of xinjiang using an experimental covert 19 vaccine the trial treatment by sin of biotech is being given to people in high risk jobs like doctors nurses but it's also being offered to the public for $60.00 . new zealand's prime minister just endure a durned says sure look to form a new government within 3 weeks a labor party claimed an unprecedented victory in national polls on saturday on and off support to govern alone. and take you through some of the headlines here in al-jazeera now armenia and azerbaijan are accusing each other of violating a 2nd seize fire which began just a few hours ago more than $700.00 people on both sides have been killed during nearly 3 weeks of fighting. and a un arms embargo on iran has expired after 13 years it was lifted as part of the 2015 nuclear.

amendment to s. 178, an act to condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic turkic muslims in xinjiang and call for an end to torture and harassment of these communities inside and outside china, with a further amendment numbered 2652, signed by 17 senators as follows. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i have a second-degree amendment to the motion to concur with the amendment. the clerk: the senator from kentucky, mr. mcconnell, proposes an amendment numbered 2680 to amendment numbered 2652. mr. mcconnell: i ask the reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i move to proceed to calendar 554, s. 4675. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: motion to proceed to s. 4675, a bill to amend health insurance portability and accountability act. mr. mcconnell: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding

rights abuses that we've seen since world war ii, some of the worst are happening right now in china xinjiangple are locked up for their faith, for the crime of being muslim or being ethnic minority than being chinese and they made it to the human rights council yesterday. charles: it's so crazy. the world once all agreed that never again. now like never again unless you're selling us cheap cotton. or making, funding our movies. it is heartbreaking. morgan, i want to ask you about the trump administration just securing the release of two americans who were held captive by houthi militia in yemen. >> yeah. charles: how did that come about? one of these stories should have been the first thing we talked about this morning but very few are. >> you're right. it should be a very big news story. yesterday secretary pompeo, national security advisor robert o'brien announced yet another win for the trump administration. bringing more americans home. no president has been more committed to bringing americans home who are held hostage, who are wrongfully detained abroad than president trump. he has a m

the way he ignored that the uyghurs are in literal concentration camps in xinjiang.s. it's not that he fails to lead our allies, the united states regularly sells out our allies. the way he treats women, spends like a drunken sailor. i've criticized president obama for that kind of spending. i've criticized president trump for that as well. he mocks evangelicals behind closed doors. his family has treated the presidency like a business opportunity. he's flirted with white supremacists. >> don't hold back, senator sasse. tell us how you really feel. he is up for re-election. any until today he has really been holding back some of the pr criticisms he used to make about president trump. quite strong language, though. >> reporter: quite strong language. he doesn't say that in the halls of the capital when we ask him about these controversies that the president has engaged in. often times he quickly votes, quickly leaves when he comes into the capital. he may answer questions briefly but doesn't often engage. here, he's engaging pretty significantly with his constituents

i mean, the way he ignores that the uighurs are in literal concentration camps in xinjiang right now.d a finger on behalf of the hong-kongers. the united states now sells out our allies under his leadership. the way he treats women and spends like a drunken sailor. he mocks evangelicals, behind closed doors. his family has treated the presidency like a business opportunity. he's flirted with white supremacists. >> wow. i mean, he excoriates him. he just hammers him, there. what did you think? why is he doing this, now? >> yeah. my question is, senator sasse, where have you been? i've been waiting for that guy to show up, for a long time. i mean, listen. in 2016, he was a critic of donald trump. he said if the gop becomes a party of david duke, i'm out. and he stayed in, every step of the darn way. and he's up for election this year. but he stayed quiet so he wouldn't draw a primary challenger. and he got the endorsement from donald trump. he didn't decline that. he accepted it. and now, now past impeachment, now past everything when the writing is on the wall that donald trump is prob

and in xinjiang detained more than a million muslim uyghurs.nese diplomats make no apologies, and criticize their critics. >> ( translated ): the whole world has watched as things unravel in the u.s. american politicians had better get their own house in order. >> reporter: the trump administration has exposed chinese espionage, closing china's oldest consulate in the u.s., and charged chinese hackers and chinese military officers. the administration sanctioned officials involvedn uyghur detention, and targeted chinese technology giants. while e administration confronts china, president trump has personally praised china's leader xi jinping. >> i call him king. he said, "no, i am not king, i am president. i said, "no, you are president for life, and therefore, you're king." >> reporter: and rejected more aggressive policies to protect a phase one trade deal. >> we have a great relationship with china. >> reporter: as the election approached, he called out china as the source of covid. >> i call it the plague from china. ( laughter ) the plague.

dictators butts, the way that he ignores that the uighurs are in literal concentration camps in xinjianghe hasn't lifted a finger on behalf of the honk conkers. the united states regularly sells out under his leadership. the way he treats women and he mocks evangelicals behind closed doors. his family has treated the presidency like a business opportunity. he's flirted with white supremacists. >> and that wasn't even all of it. joining us now, cnn political commentators, bakari sellers and scott jennings. scott, this was senator ben sasse, who's up for re-election, by the way, of nebraska. this was not a phone call to three people that i think that he never wanted to go public. allegedly, the campaign says there were some 17,000 people on this call. clearly, he's okay with a lot of people knowing these feelings. and the gist of what he was saying, scott, is that he was warning republicans that he thinks they are in danger of losing the senate largely because of president trump. how common now is this feeling, as we're nearly two weeks left to go in voting, how common is this feeling amon

the best example of that is chin jong where we had put -- xinjiang where we have put tariffs on because proof product is prison labor-free is on the company, so the company has to be quite vigilant of what their labor practices are and being able to support their self certification as being forced labor free. that will be the first thing we look at. saw donaldny people trump's decision not to join the tpp or withdrawing or disengaging with this part of the world as disengaging with asia. has that been detrimental, and has china filled that void in your view and allowed to that country to have a freer hand in these disagreements in the south china sea, for instance? michael: personally, i certainly do believe that leaving the tpp was a mistake, and i think it has hurt american industry. i believe even the new phase i agreement with japan has not restored the balance yet. i do think it was a mistake. now has it meant that china fills in the gap? i'm not sure that is true. china is a rising power. china is a big economic power, so their share of the economic asia isicularly within bound to

completed testing of a whole city in a bid to control an outbreak of covid-19. 5 million people in xinjiang province are said to have undergone checks after a symptomatically says were reported at the weekend. authorities found five confirmed cases and 178 a symptomatic ones with all other people testing negative. the e.u.'s top brexit negotiator is in london as they try and hammer out a last-minute deal. michel barnier is expected to remain in the u.k. until wednesday before talks move back to brussels. the e.u. council president says negotiations are at your most difficult stage with the clock ticking until the u.k. family needs to sing -- finally leads to single markets. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am karina mitchell. this is bloomberg. how theill to come, u.s. elections will impact south korea. we are joined later this hour by the president of the career economic institute of america, ambassador kathleen stevens. plus the month-long stimulus stalemate -- a few more weeks.

says president trump's recent sanctions involved in the mass incarceration of uighur muslims in xinjiang last year, president trump said, quote, xi should go ahead with building the camps which bolton writes trump thought was exactly the right thing to do. >> we're intermittently tough. but in many areas, we have been missing in action and sent inconsistent or weak signals. more significantly, we didn't join the trans-pacific partnership. if we wanted to put pressure on china, what better way than to join with all of our asia pacific trading partners? that would have been serious. trump wouldn't to it. >> says the foreign policies with china are working. >> there is a widespread belief that many reforms need to be made in china in terms of technology transfer. in terms of theft of intellectual property that this president concessions were able to get with president xi and the chinese by imposing tariffs. the long-term president of this president, similar to nixon, will be china. >> reporter: that's a harder case to make during a global health crisis. >> we're already in a recession. in f

numbered 2652 to s. 178, an act to condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic turkic muslims in xinjiang and calling for an end to arbitrary torture and harassment of these communities inside and outside china shall be brought to a close. the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk shall call the roll. vote: vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: could we have order please. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. mr. schumer: thank you, mr. president. could we have order, please. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. please take your conversations outside the chamber. in the far right corner, take your conversation outside the chamber, please. thank you. mr. schumer: thank you, mr. president. now, leader mcconnell has argued that what the republican majority is doing by ramming the supreme court justice through the senate mere days before a national presidential election is completely normal. that's perfectly -- that it's perfectly consistent with precedent. this is not true. there is no precedent in history of

the cases are in kashgar in the north—western region of xinjiang and have all been linked to a garmentlieve, a country of over a billion people has such a small total. as you noted, nothing since october at the 14th. we know full well that china falsifies figures on all sorts of things, gdp, other matters as well. i suspect there is something similar going on here. matters as well. i suspect there is something similar going on harem makes you wonder why they put out any infection rates at all? that's down to domestic propaganda, what the chinese government very much wa nts to the chinese government very much wants to do is show the chinese people it is essentially looking after the rest of the world, basically. or leading the world in terms of its approach to coronavirus, that‘s what‘s happening. 0k. what do you think we have learned about china from the way they have handled this pandemic, if anything? well, the first thing is to note this is the way authoritarian countries handle pandemics. they lie at the beginning, they suppress information, keep the truth from coming out and that