Safety or whether theyre actually imprisoned i stopped trying to reach weaker sources and the middle of last year because the risk to them was much greater than any possible benefit of talking. China says there is no such thing as reeducation camps. A growing body of evidence suggests otherwise despite the straight jacket imposed on reporters inside. Coverage of the camps has surged over the past year. Now i cant find it really 100. Or so many cross. Much of that recent reporting is the result of investigations done from a distance by researches using a method known as open source. Open source is shorthand for the tools and dates are available to virtually anyone with an Internet Connection and knows for Forensic Research and in the case of this story the ability to read mandarin open source journalism is not limited by geography and respects no borders which is why ive come here to stuttgart in southwest germany to speak to a researcher whos been investigating the camps almost 6000 kilometers away in sion john. So you are one of the 1st researchers to use open source methods to investigate these counts in changing what made you think that you would succeed using these tools where conventional journalists had failed the big advantage of this open Source Research is that you can uncover documents that speak of systematic policy where the government itself says we are doing this and every local government under us is also supposed to be doing to us and often times i was able to find this kind of document. Was this particular dog so this was the main suppose it earlier foundation for reeducation so when the chinese say we have a step the extremist cation sent us based on the law this is the document to refer to. Another document that i found talks about the goals of transformation through education and even very blatantly says that transformation through education and chinese joey trying to cleanse a step brain from evil thoughts from the thoughts of religion thats a piece of evidence that speaks as much or more than 100. 00 newspaper articles because it basically proves that this is a systematic policy. The document that sends uncovered evidence of state policy but proving the camps had actually been built enough of them to hold hundreds of thousands of people required another open source tools satellite imagery. Thats where sean john a Chinese Student based in vancouver came into the picture. Was. Yeah. I started my Research Last year when i heard reports that around 10 percent of the way given xing jiang had been detained or disappeared i used a few keywords to Search Online and found lots of information such as government tendinitis for camps to be built these documents contain the addresses of nearly 100. 00 camps so i searched on google earth and found the satellite images they looked very different from civilian facilities for example there were barbed wire fences there watchtowers structures that youd expect in prisons i found more and more information and so published it on my blog. From a researcher in. Construction. Psychological. Trying to take into the camps a lot of mainstream medias coverage has built upon adrian or shawn work you see in the adrian is using government documents and hiring information to. To show the extent to which the Security State has grown and changed. And sean has used satellite imagery to show the compass being built almost in real time the Financial Times weve also used satellite imagery to look at the location and size of the canvas weve also used research by indians and on the contracts that governments are using to buy new materials for the camps and i think the really important thing about these kinds of Research Collaborations is that because the data is open the journalist can also check what the research is looking at and if needed you know challenge whether the data theyre seeing is representative of the region or how the data is chosen. Communist Party Officials not usually known for their transparency gave open Source Research is a helping hand by leaving the evidence in plain sight now beijing is in damage limitation mode trying to delete documents before investigators in stuttgart bank and elsewhere in repose. And online game of cat and mouse over one of the worlds biggest stories. This year by going to see i post my findings on my blog and i include the links to the original documents but those links started showing up as invalid within a couple of weeks or even within a few days of me posting them i could see the Chinese Government was reading my blog and deleting the original sources the set of documents that disappeared basically describe the details of the camps the security features barbed wire watchtowers how big they are and what they cost a lot of that disappeared and so on we were a few versions starting to archive websites and spent almost entire days archiving hundreds of links but i think in some sense they put it too late we already had the information. By staying one step ahead of beijing open. Source research is on earth evidence about the camps that journalists on the ground and she could not. But going up against a superpower magnifying scrutiny of an already notorious human rights record comes with consequences. All the more so in this case if you are chinese citizen. Really and since i started my research i felt a lot of pressure from the Chinese Government for example theyve contacted my family in china so in the near future i think i will avoid going back home that this might all this i think doing this work is worth it because there are so many weak of people detained theyve lost contact with their family at least my research can raise awareness of this problem and help pressure the Chinese Government into finding a peaceful solution. Without the reporting thats taken place outside of the country chinese officials would have very little to answer for on the send jang story as we heard from a lean say r f a whig or beijing is now saying that the vast majority of the wiggers interned have since been freed their thoughts transformed however no evidence has been offered to back up those numbers so you can expect the journalists working out of washington and researchers combing the net for the truth in vancouver and strict guard will be Fact Checking that claim as they have so many others in the coverage of this story youve been watching a special edition of our program on sin jang and the media well see you next time here at the listening post. Finally well ask about that but thats the balls about what i see that the set says the last wonder rather doubt about my book as a bunch is a bit on the bottom. In part one of this 2 part series aljazeera explores the world of performance enhancing drugs. Sports doping the endless chase on aljazeera. The 15 year old boy tortured in the worlds most notorious prison finally released after 13 years i wouldnt wish this experience on anybody but i have a hard time thinking about wishing that i havent gone through this experience in an exclusive interview almost tells his epic tale. Witness presents guantanamos child on the hard. On aljazeera. Im fully back to go with another our main stories here on aljazeera one of the most powerful people in the white house is out of a Job National Security advisor john bolton insists he resigned but u. S. Present donald trump says he was fired because of disagreements over Foreign Policy trump says i knew advised it would be appointed next week alan fisher has more from washington if youre going to do a fantastic job and i appreciate that there had been growing divisions between john bolton that his boss but the end was brutal even by the standards of this white house donald trump tweeting i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration therefore i asked for his resignation which was given to me this morning bolton tweeted not the usual thanks for being able to serve but an insistence he quit rather than being fired at a news briefing at the white house which bolton was initially listed to attend stephen secretary of state might pompey defended the president s decision the president s entitle to the staff that he wants that at any moment as a staff person who works directly for the president states and he should have people they trust and values if there were many times in basketball that i disagree that to be sure but thats true for lots and lots of people who with whom i interact john bolton was donald trump started National Security advisor the longest serving so far but with his stated positions of using military force in iran and north korea he was annoyed fit for a president whose isolationist america 1st policy wanted to reduce the u. S. Military footprint reason only told him was against talking to north korea against pulling u. S. Troops out of syria and against the president s latest idea of inviting afghanistans taliban to peace talks at camp david that seems to have been the breaking point we have seen from this and from every other firing that what he really wants are people that echo what he already wants to do and with boltons opposition gone there could be over. This changes for example theres a better chance the president will meet with his a really encounter part present very very clear its appeared to me with no preconditions before he became President Donald Trump considered john bolton for the role of secretary of state but ultimately decided against it because he felt he didnt look the part mainly because of his mr bush now after 18 months as the National Security advisor john bolton once again finds that his face doesnt fit alan fischer aljazeera at the white house arab countries have condemned a Campaign Promise by israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to an expired so the occupied west bank they say is plan would violate International Law thats now says the u. S. Middle east peace plan would provide an opportunity to extend israeli sovereignty. Shelob out of the mountain so im asking you to give me the mandate to extend israeli law to all the settlements out of respect for President Trump im waiting to do this in maximum coordination with his administration but there is one place where the diplomatic circumstances are ripe to do this very soon if im elected i commit to the next the Jordan Valley and north of the dead sea it is our eastern border our defense wall. Rocket fire late it cut short and its now Campaign Rally israel responded with a series of air strikes on gaza the Israeli Army Says 15 targets were hit there were no reports of casualties at least 31. 00 pilgrims have died in iraq during a stampede at one of shia islams most sacred sites Officials Say about 100. 00 others were injured during a parade in the city of karbala to mark a shura nigeria is repatriating to 600 of its citizens from south africa after a week of violence which led to tensions between the 2 countries at least 12 people were killed and more than 100 shops vandalized in attacks over foreign owned businesses being offered to nigerians wanting to return home venezuela has carried out a series of military drills on its colombian border the military says 150000 troops are involved in the war games which are expected to continue for several weeks and the body of zimbabwes former president Robert Mugabes on its way to his hometown to be buried he died in singapore last week at the age of 95 he soon will will be held on sunday youre upset with the headlines on aljazeera coming up next year its the coming war on china to stay with us. I pity a country that would come up against us. The synergy with their land and sea forces and in our ability to control the battle space and seize the high ground its devastating all countries respect the power of the United States in that respect how dominant we are in this region and we get better and better and better. The. The. Tonight to 10 a reg limps of chinas on vicious expansion in one of the worlds most contested regions we report from the South China Sea where the chinese a warning off anyone who comes too close to that Building Program we continue our look this morning and what china does not want you to see the United States says the superpower is reclaiming land in the South China Sea the fact that were dealing with a situation right now where we the u. S. Has to be much more aggressive in dealing with the Chinese Government c. N. N. Has learned that the u. S. Navy is about to send a destroyer there lets go to our c. N. N. C. N. N. Got exclusive access to classified u. S. Surveillance flights over the island so. The threat to china is becoming big news the media is beating the drums of war as the world is being primed to
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