High wins. Thousands of are without power and new Orleans Airport has been closed. At ten oclock they will be a full round up of the days news. Now on bbc news. Our world. China is now thought to be holding more than a million muslims in camps in its far west region of xinjiang. Reporterjohn sudworth gets rare, highly controlled access to go inside. Muslims are being detained. Mosques demolished. Thoughts transformed. And children are disappearing. With rare official access. Have you been convicted of a crime . Our own evidence. And testimony from more than 60 grieving relatives. Where are they now . We find out whats really happening in chinas far Western Region of xinjiang. China used to deny that these places exist. But now we are being given a tour. Taken inside some of the giant secure facilities thought to hold more than a million muslims. Music plays. This is what china wants the world to see. Offered up as proof that these are not prisoners, but students. Willingly being guided away from extremism. Is it your choice to be here . Government officials watch over every interview. This is how thoughts are transformed. Xinjiangs uighurs, kazakhs and other minorities who have their own languages and culture spend long hours rote learning chinese. Studying chinas tightening restrictions on religion. And replacing their religious and cultural identity with something else. I love the communist party of china, this man has written. How often are you able to pray . These are places where adults wear uniforms. And where they dont go home at the end of the day, but sleep up to ten a room, sharing a toilet with no idea how many months or years it will be before they can return to theirfamilies. If they dont want to come, then what happens . It isnt a place where people have to come . Obey the rules, stay until you allow them to leave . It sounds more like a prison, even if its a prison where you can do some art. I think a definition of a prison isnt about what happens inside. Its whether you can leave or not. Over the past few years, a vast network of high security facilities has been built across chinas Western Region of xinjiang. Surrounded by high walls, barbed wire and watchtowers. But in some of the places we are being taken to, the satellite images show the internal security fencing and what look like watchtowers were taken down shortly before the tours forjournalists began. And empty exercise yards have been transformed into sports facilities. On full display when we visited. But if these are show camps, what might that say about the places were not given access to . With their watchtowers and barbed wire still in place, they look much less like schools. And we are much less welcome. And everywhere we go, the locked and deserted homes hint at the scale of the system, and at a definition of extremism that now includes the mildest of islamic customs and beliefs. So, here it is in black and white a notice telling People Living in this village that certain religious practices are banned. At this point here, number ten, it says the wearing of long beards for young men is not to be allowed. Rakhima senbay, who now lives in kazakhstan, spent more than a year in the chinese camp system just for having whatsapp on her phone. Only towards the end was she in a facility resembling those weve been shown. Mostly she was in much tougher camps, including this one. When you see the pictures that china is showing the world, of happy muslims studying hard, dancing even, inside these facilities that they call schools, what do you think . Singing. What, one wonders, might these people have been told by the officials ahead of our visit. Then they switch from uighur, their mother tongue, to chinese lyrics, written by president xijinping. Singing. Theyve been convicted of no crime, faced no trial. But, were told, china now believes it can determine their in advance. Its a policy of treating people as pre criminals. Backed up in gruesome detail by an exhibition that were taken to. Its designed to prove that china is responding rationally to years of sporadic separatist violence. We are also taken to the id kah mosque in the city of kashgar, one of xinjiangs holiest sites. Faith is alive and well, we are told, with a government approved imam insisting that there is no ban on long beards. Once again, the satellite pictures tell a different story. Right across the region, mosques are being destroyed. Over the past two years, in cities, towns and villages, dozens of religious sites once clearly visible on the satellite images have been turned into patches of bare earth. I asked if we can get to the mosque and he says the road is closed. We think its onlyjust been closed moments before our arrival. Weve seen a number of other people on motorbikes, scooters, some cars as well, stopping and asking why they cant get through. We are hoping to find out whats happened to this, the gatehouse of the aitika mosque in the city of keriya. Its distinctive shadow shows it was Still Standing in late 2017. But now its gone, overwhelmed by the surrounding commercial development. We get close enough to film the building work. Marooned in the middle, the mosques prayer hall with its domed towers is still intact. But there is Construction Machinery on the spot where the gatehouse once stood. Nearby, traditional uighur neighbourhoods are being demolished too. The old homes are visible in this image from two years ago. Whole swathes have disappeared just a few months later. This patch of land encapsulates perfectly the two driving forces of modern china. Political stability and economic development. There is no doubting that these neighbourhoods were poor, but by demolishing them, by repressing the faith of those who lived in them and by forcing hundreds of thousands of them to re education, the concern is that a whole history and culture are being wiped out. And now the bbc has new evidence of what is happening to their children. In account. After account. Gathered in a meeting hall in istanbul. Uighurs tell us again and again of the immeasurable grief of separation from their loved ones back home. Do you have any idea who is looking after your children now . Do you know where your children are now . For decades, ties of language and faith have brought uighurs to turkey, but now there is no way back. The three children at home, do you know where they are now . Do you know whos looking after them . Your husband was arrested . Abdurahman tohti moved to turkey in 2013. Three years ago, his wife and children went back to xinjiang for a short trip and vanished. Then, earlier this year, he found something online. Hes certain its his son, abdulaziz, in his orphanage, speaking not in uighur, his mother tongue, but in chinese. Alongside the camps, china has been building something else. Giant new schools, many with huge dormitories. This kindergarten sleeps hundreds. The authorities seem to want to keep them hidden. We find one street blocked by the police. Reports say there is a school here for 2000 children of detained parents, but we are not allowed to get any closer. This kindergarten for the children of detainees has barbed wire, cameras and signs that say only chinese should be spoken. Senior officials deny that family separation on such a scale would cause lasting psychological damage. What is happening to those children where extended families have been taken into the camp system . But such cases are not hard to find. Amine wayit, who now runs a clothes shop in turkey, recently found this picture of her stepdaughter on social media. Its a sign her close relatives are in the camps. Her stepdaughter in a boarding school and wearing traditional chinese costume. If you could send a message to her today, what would you tell her . Buried deep on the chinese internet, there is evidence to suggest there is now a deliberate policy to separate children from their roots. I have uncovered very detailed evidence of how both students and teachers in these boarding schools, if they fail to speak chinese to each other, there are severe penalties. Other documents found by mr zenz mentioned Psychological Counselling for the children of parents taken to the camps, and the need to make up for the lack of family love, suggesting china is all too aware of the impact. Since the camps were built, hes found an 82 jump in kindergarten places, and by even more in areas of xinjiang where uighurs are the majority. Chinas National Increase was just 8 . The xinjiang government is attempting to gain full control over the young generation, to literally raise a new generation that has been cut off from original roots, from religious beliefs, from cultural knowledge, and even from their own language. I believe the evidence really points to what we must call a cultural genocide. Kalida akytkankyzy now lives in kazakhstan. Last year, her family members back in xinjiang were all taken to the camps, leaving her 1a grandchildren parentless. So she phoned their village official. Kalida cant look for her family. Anyone returning to xinjiang is likely to end up in the camps. So we look for her. The family home is locked and deserted. We call the village official. But he hangs up on us, too. Other families weve spoken to also give us permission to search for their missing relatives. But we find no one. Only the signs of a giant vanishing. Back on our official tour, job training, we are told, is crucial for peoples transformation. How long does it take to learn how to make a bed . Just to learn to make the bed, four months . We would call that brainwashing. In 2015, we filmed the crowds, young and old, turning up to pray at the id kah mosque. Beards were easy to spot. Four years on, the faces are clean shaven. And this is the scene just before prayer time. Inside, a few elderly men gather in silence. Isnt the truth that what weve just seen is proof that china has suffocated islam in this region . Until recently, this place was the vibrant heart of a deeply devout society. Now, theres almost no one left. Late at night, we return uninvited to one of the camps weve been taken to on our official tour. Long after dark, the lights still burn. And the sound of thoughts being transformed echoes late into the night. Chanting. Time to get a check on the weather for the week ahead. The start of this week is not looking too bad across this week is not looking too bad a cross m ost this week is not looking too bad across most of the uk. A lot of sunny spells on the way. The weather is going to turn by the time we get to wednesday. Let us look at the big picture first of all was monday, High Pressure still there, it was there on saturday and on sunday and not budging anywhere on monday. That means very little change on the weather front. Here is means very little change on the weatherfront. Here is the means very little change on the weather front. Here is the forecast for the morning, there will be elisabeth cloud across eastern and south eastern areas. Maybe even if you like spots of rain, but the vast majority of the country will be waking up to some sunshine and sea temperatures, no real change in their weekend. Lou possibly the mid 20s in the far side of the country, up to around about 22 expected in the lowlands of scotland. Buying evening on the way on monday, as well. Monday night, into tuesday, little change. High pressure still there, but it is still starting to erode away as this low pressure starts to put in off the atlantic with its weather fronts, as well. But it is only in the north west of the uk but we are going to getjust a few showers, spits and spots of rain on the Western Isles and may be Northern Ireland, too. Much fingered and wales had a fine day on tuesday and if anything the cabbages will be rising through tuesday into wednesday. That is because of a change in the wind direction, wind is coming out of the south south west. Out of the continent. Went today that low pressure is edging closer and High Pressure has slipped away towards more eastern and southern parts of the continent. While the weather goes downhill in Northern Ireland and west of scotland, here, again a south westerly wind, pushing in that warmth. So, london at least in the mid 20s, probably mid 20s in yorkshire, as well. By thursday, the pressure has passed just between scotla nd pressure has passed just between scotland and iceland. The weather front is moving through, that mean special conditions for many Western Areas of the uk and a good chance of catching some showers. Notice there is not awful lot of rain stop at least in southern parts of britain. In fact, you may have to wait until friday or even into saturday before the rain which is you here. Temperatures Still Holding around the loop, possibly the mid 20s. Early on friday, after this one by the front moves out of the way, the next low pressure swings in and this will probably be the rainmaker for most of us. Heavy rain is expected at this stage. Not entirely sure what time the rain will arrive, could be late on thursday, could be early on friday. I think the thinking is that many of us was the a lot of clout and at least some outbreaks of rain. Saturday and sunday the jet stream is quite far south, that means steering these weather systems towards more central and southern parts of the uk. They wa nt to and southern parts of the uk. They want to the south, remember cooler airto the want to the south, remember cooler air to the north and were made to the south. As we head into monday and tuesday the following week, we are talking about the latter part of july now, we could see a plume of warm aircoming in july now, we could see a plume of warm air coming in from the south, which means we could get some much warmer weather. To summarise the next ten days oso, unsettled weather with some rain later this week. Thursday friday, unsettled through the weekend and beyond that in the third week ofjuly we could see that plume of one coming in from the south. Goodbye