When they called me, i recorded it with my other phone. Alim has shared recordings of those calls. Weve adapted a few to mask key details. We paid a visit to your family in xinjiang. My colleague collected their details. If you want to see them, i can set up a video call. Yes, please arrange that. I just want to talk to them and find out how they are. I wont ask about anything else. Ok, no problem. Ill arrange that for you. Alim was granted a very unusual video call with his mother. The officer connected them by holding two Mobile Phones facing each other. He used one phone to connect with my mother, and then he used another phone to contact me, allowing me to see my mother through his screen. When i saw my mother, i couldnt contain my emotions. It had been six to seven years since i last saw her, and it was an incredibly heart wrenching moment. There was a price to pay. The officer wanted something in return. Weve heard that the uyghur activists are planning to meet next month. We want you to attend and find out what they say, especially the leaders. We know who they are. They took my family hostage, putting me through this ordeal. Even though i may appear fine on the outside, on the inside, im suffering. A report published this year says 60 of the 400 Uyghurs Living in the uk have been approached with a similar request to inform on their peers or to stop speaking out about whats happening in xinjiang. This is about the way the Chinese Government harasses and threatens uyghur people abroad and tries to control their daily activities and their friendships. Most face threats and harassment from police and government officials, but all experience family separation. Uyghurs outside china offer a line to the international community. They can speak for those still in xinjiang, telling the world about its internment camps, where the un says more than a Million People have been detained in the last few years. Alim refused to cooperate. And we understand that the vast majority of requests made by Chinese Police are rejected by those in the uyghur community. Sam judah, bbc news this was the response we received from the Chinese Embassy accusing china of Transnational Repression is totally groundless. It is aimed at spreading China Threat Theory and smearing the country. We firmly oppose it. The Chinese Government protects the Freedom Of Travel of all ethnic groups, including the uyghurs, and their communication with overseas relatives in accordance with the law. Lebanons economic and political paralysis entered a new phase today with the departure of the discredited central bank governor, riad salameh. For most of his 30 year tenure he was celebrated as a financial genius, but he is now widely blamed for lebanons almost complete economic collapse since. Lebanons Caretaker Government has failed to appoint a successor, though his Deputy Wassim Mansouri is taking over as acting governor. The country is paralysed. Decision making in the country is paralysed. And he had some role to play in that. Thats the point here. Yes, exactly. So you know the point of the story, i suppose, whether hes in power or not, for the last 30 years, hes been the governor of the central bank and the economy is in tatters. Yes, of course. Now, the governor of the central bank has bears responsibility to what happens, whether hes at fault or not. He was in a position of direct responsibility, and thats unquestionable. Whether whether he was responsible for i mean, whether it was his fault that the economy collapsed is another is another question. I suppose its not so much that it was just his fault. But the fact is that collectively, all these people i suppose its not so much that it was just his fault. But the fact is that collectively, all these people who have been in power have in some way contributed to the crisis that were seeing in lebanon today. Yes, i mean, thats a very comfortable tautological statement, which applies to any situation where people are involved in a collapse. Banker. You cannot accuse bankers of wanting to make money or politicians of being one thing voting power. Or a central banker of trying to stabilise the ship when there is a storm. So everybody is responsible, in a sense, because everybody was participant. But it was also some of his policies. I mean, his policies were compared to a ponzi scheme because the way in which, yes. So if you could talk about that. Well, i am i dont agree with that description. Its a very attractive description and it makes a good headline. But in effect, i think what happened is that the economy in lebanon has been so battered in the last 15 years by political instability, by a series of assassinations that lasted seven or eight years, by a major war with provoked with israel, by the occupation of the city for 18 months, by an attack on the city. By paralysing the country for almost three years. Teacher strikes have ended in england, after all four unions accepted a pay rise of 6. 5 . Members of the uks largest Teaching Union the neu voted 86 in favour of the pay rise. Its Thought Funding for the increase will not come from existing school budgets. 0ur Education CorrespondentHazel Shearing reports. Scenes like this were becoming increasingly familiar outside school gates in england, but not any more. As schools closed for the summer, members of all four Teaching Unions were asked whether or not theyd accept a 6. 5 pay rise. Their answer overwhelmingly was yes. This is the conclusion of this dispute, yes. But the long term aspiration for teacher pay still continues. I mean, this award of 6. 5 , thats the highest for over 30 years for teachers. But it still doesnt restore teachers� pay to its real term value since 2010. Its news that many families have been waiting for as they get geared up for next term. Because it takes that stress off and obviously youve not got stuck in the middle trying to find stuff to do or childcare or trying to get one up for school and the other one being at home. The government welcomed an end to strike action today. Im delighted, actually, i think its great news for teachers. Its great news for headteachers and school leaders. Its great news for parents. And its also great news, most of all, for children. Well, it is a fair and reasonable offer. It starts from september this year. And, as i say, over the period, were hoping that inflation comes in below 6. 5 during that period. Both Union Leaders and the government have described this pay offer as properly funded. The government says it will reprioritise within existing budgets to pay for it. Schools like this one, where strikes took place earlier this year, will have to wait and see exactly what that looks like but ministers say they will protect what they call front line services. For now, many will be Breathing A Sigh of relief that pupils can go back to School Without further disruption in a few weeks� time. Hazel shearing, bbc news. To west africa now. Nigers ousted president , mohamed bazoum, has been seen for the First Time Since the military detained him in a coup last week following which gen abdourahmane tchiani, the head of the president ial guards unit, declared himself nigers new ruler. Reporter Yasmin Khatun dewan is in the newsroom with more. Here he is. Mohammed was the deposed president of niger, sat inside the president ial palace in niamey, inside niger. He, of course, has been inside that palace since last wednesday. He was arrested hours before that televised address on National Television announcing a coup. He sat besides Mohammed Idriss deby, the president of chad, who arrived from nigeria, where discussions were ongoing concerning the situation in niger, deployed to negotiate on that coalition� s behalf. That west African Coalition called upon the Nigerian Military to give up power. You can see here an image from that announcement last week from an organisation within the Military Calling themselves the National Council for the safeguard of the homeland. They, of course, have received support from the wider Military Force since that announcement was made. You can see here the negotiations and this image that surfaced of Mohammed Bazoum and Mohammed Idriss deby speaking inside that president ial palace. Mohammed idriss deby has said he wants to reach a peaceful solution and is also speaking to the military who have taken power, as is the organisation who have deployed idriss deby on their behalf to negotiate and to restore Mohammed Bazoum back into power. Its interesting that idriss deby was deployed because he of course came into power with military support himself. And chad isnt actually a part of the ecowas. Its interesting that he has been deployed to negotiate. He came into power following the death of his father, idriss deby, the long time president of chad. Now, the military have warned against foreign intervention, but there has been that threat of Regional Intervention by this West African Bloc with potential support of western nations, who have, of course, expressed their concern over the situation in niger. But it will be interesting to see what happens following these negotiations. Around the world and across the uk. This is bbc news. Bbc news bringing you different stories from across the uk. Nearly a year, thousands of 55 to 7a year olds in cornwall who are former or current smokers, have been coming to this mobile unit for a lung scan. I will see you in a bit, my love. Today, janet is back for a follow up scan after a nodule was found on her lung. Every one knocks the nhs, but things like this are brilliant. Catching lung cancer early is tricky as patients dont go to the gp unless they have symptoms. The problem is about 60 of those patients that we see through that pathway end up having a late stage cancer. And any other cancers that we find tend to be incidental. Thats what this National Pilot scheme is about. And this week the team in cornwall hit 6,000 scans. In that time, at least 45 lung cancers have been identified. Smokers attending a lung check are getting help to quit, too. Its never too late to stop smoking. They will always see benefits. For more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. Youre live with bbc news. Lets go to afghanistan now where the taliban in the Western Province of herat have collected and set fire to music instruments, hookahs, and other equipment. They say theyve have been ordered to destroy anything that promotes immorality in society. Since taking power in 2021, the taliban have imposed numerous restrictions including the playing of music in public. Thousands of Dollars Worth of kit went up in smoke, with much of it seized from wedding venues. Even before taliban took over afghanistan, so many of my interviews said that they are the exact seam or when we are dealing with between the years 1996 inch 2001. They are the same ignorant backward thinking extremists, terrorists and radical group as before. Except this time around they have been trained better by their creators which is isi to fool the world in a smarter manner. I did think that this would happen again and within my own capacity, i tried to warn the world. I believe that this is just the to warn the world. I believe that this isjust the beginning of their oppression of our people. As time goes on and on and As The World Turns more of a blind eye towards afghanistan will only get worse and worse. Shame on the road to have handed over the entire nation to a Terrorist Group in now slowly turning a blind eye to it. Shame on the world. La guardia he played a huge part in the Music Industry before the taliban retook the country in 2021 and i want to allow our viewers to have some of your music. Music plays you play such a huge role in it and now to see the situation in the country, you must feel heartbroken. Absolutely, it is devastating for me to sit here and watch and to be helpless, not knowing what to do and everything the taliban is doing in afghanistan, how they are treating people so unfairly and inhumanly. The way that they are treating the afghan women, the artists right now as you mentioned. Burning the equipment and also musicians, artists that i know, most of them hiding right now in their homes. And they are terrified of being. You know, by taliban and being killed or being punished. And its absolutely devastating and its really sad. Its really, really heartbreaking. We have about a minute left, but i just wanted to ask you, do you speak to any of the musicians who remain in afghanistan and what do they say to you . I am indeed in communication with many musicians inside afghanistan. Some of them were actually my colleagues when i was a judge on the afghan star or the other show that i was a judge on. And most of these musicians actually reach out to me directly for financial help or help or asking if they can be evacuated because theyre living in the most horrible situation. They not only fear for their lives and punishment by taliban, but also living in poverty. Their children are hungry. They dont have food to eat because their only way of income and livelihood was coming from music, which has been banned now. So theyre living in a very, very tough situation right now. In the 1960s barber blake hanna like many others of the Winter Rush Generation came to the uk in search of new opportunities, but she faced constant racism and after eight years she returned to jamaica. She has been talking to the bbc� s reporter. July 31st, 1968, the Times Newspaper printed a spread on Barbara Blake hannah. The night before, shed become the first black woman to report the news on british television. Yes, to be in the times, old page, to be a journalist on television is the highest praise for a journalist to be. And id achieved that. That was really cool. That was really nice. Barbara reported on Community Stories eamonn andrews� show on thames television. That was until her contract came to an end afterjust nine months. Too many viewers had complained about having a black person on their screens. You just have to accept it. That was all part of the, you� re not good enough. You� re black. You� re not good enough. Racism was a big awakening. She later got a job on atv, a regional channel based in birmingham, but things didn� t improve during her six months there. Racism was more pronounced in birmingham, on the set and on the streets. We were at a party, at a bar, a glass broke and splinters jumped up and cut me. And some drunk white girls said, oh, it� s red. She thought my blood was going to be another colour. How did you cope with all the racism that you faced in the uk . Because you were there for about eight years. You would ignore it. You ignore that kind of behaviour as best you can. Some people can� t. I guess i learned how to, at least for eight years, until i thought enough is enough, time to leave. You know, why stay where you� re hated . Barbara moved behind the scenes, working on films and tv shows. She championed jamaica� s arts and culture, and founded the reggae film festival. She also continued her journalism, interviewing celebrities and politicians. In 1984, she herself became jamaica� s first rastafari senator. Barbara later received an order of distinction from the jamaican government, but to her, one accomplishment matters the most. My greatest achievement is having had a child. Being a mother. Having had a wonderful child. My son, makonnen. All my awards and medals, these are just special gifts along the way. Now 82, barbara hopes her legacy will inspire others. Simijolaoso, bbc news, kingston, jamaica. The extraordinary life of britain� s first black tv reporter. You are watching bbc news. Has that one of its militants have carried out the Suicide Attack in the north of the country the blast that has killed thousands of people. The attack took place at a political rally raising fears that there could be a violent selection. 0n the way following months of chaos. The attack took place at a political rally in bajaur. It raises fears that there could be a violent election period on the way, following months of chaos following the ousting of imran khan as Prime Minister in april last year. 0ur correspondent in islamabad Caroline Davies has the latest. We� ve now heard from the amoc news agency that the so called Islamic State in kp. This is the province where the suicide blast took place that that group has now claimed responsibility for the Suicide Bombing that took place on Sunday Afternoon so far, taking the lives of 45 people. Now, this has come through the news agency, which is quite often the outlet that the so called Islamic State tend to use to announce when and claim various different attacks and the same thing for their Affiliate Groups as well. Now, while this declaration did include the name of the individual that they say was the suicide bomber, it hasn� t contained any further details of the motive and the intention behind it. But the fact that this has happened and this is not the first time that the so called Islamic State has carried out attacks in pakistan. This many people are already suggesting that this appears to show a growing rift between the so called Islamic State and other religious groups operating in pakistan, and that this is becoming increasingly serious. If you go out late at night on the streets of central london, you are likely to see significant numbers of people sleeping rough and new figures do show an increase of 9 on the same period last year. There were 3,272 people sleeping outside in the three months between april and june. Over 1,600 were found to be Rough Sleeping for the first time, that� s a 12 rise on the year before. The situation in london is being seen in some other parts of the country too, as our social Affairs CorrespondentMichael Buchanan reports. London, july 2023. 3am on britain� s most famous shopping street. Along a small section of oxford street, dozens of people Rough Sleeping. Most of them, we� re told, are romanian. Some havejobs, some are begging, some are illegal, all are homeless. There are at least 62 people sleeping in this small area mainly men, but women as well, including couples. One of britain� s most famous streets being used as a bed by scores of people. As we were filming, this 24 year old man woke up. It is not easy, life on the street. Because sometimes not eating, not having money. Some people use drugs, drinking, come here, push like this, speaking. Not speaking nice. After Rough Sleeping was significantly reduced during the pandemic, it has been rising in several areas in the last year, casting doubt on whether the problem will be solved in this parliament as ministers promised. This is home. So i move the front board, and then i can sleep completely flat. This man has been Rough Sleeping in nottingham since february. I canjust level it out and sleep as i would in a bed. That is ingenious. Is it comfortable . Its very comfortable, yeah. Its only a bit of an issue because it is a bit cramped from the shoulder size, so you dont have much room to move. A former well paid it consultant, when his landlord unexpectedly evicted him, the 41 year old says he did not have the money for another property. Keeping things organised in a tight space is quite important, because it still needs to be functional. In fact, now is the time when i need to be most functional and most organised to try to get myself out of this situation. A lot different to what you used to have, eh . Yeah, i used to have a mattress that cost me £1,000. So. In yourflat . Yeah. Bit of a downgrade. In nottingham, Rough Sleeping has increased by a1 in a year. We do outreach seven days a week, 365 days a year. Sam lane says the rising cost of housing is driving people to the streets. We have got an increase of people that are working. Landlords have increased their rents. Even though they are working, they are unable to afford that rent any more. An increase of people that were sofa surfing that can no longer do that. The household can� t afford that extra running water, that extra food, you know, because times are really difficult. Ministers say they are spending £500 million over three years tackling Rough Sleeping. But the rising cost of rents and mortgages may overwhelm their efforts. Michael buchanan, bbc news. Hello there. This month has certainly been a wet one for many, also cool with temperatures below average across much of the uk. For the rest of this week as we head into the first part of august, there� ll be very little change with it staying unsettled and remaining on the cool side. Now today we� ve had this area of low pressure moving across the country. It� s brought lots of cloud and spells of rain. Some of it� s been quite heavy at times, but as it� s pulling away into the north sea, we should see something a little bit drier and quieter as we move through the night. There� ll still be some areas of rain northern england, southern scotland, northern ireland. A few showers dotted around, some mist and murk, some low cloud too. Quite warm and muggy in the south, a little bit fresher further north. And in fact, after a fine day across, Northern Scotland will stay clear and cool overnight. Now into tuesday, then a much quieter day. We� re in between low pressure systems. Again, we� ll have this swathe of cloud with outbreaks of rain northern ireland, southern scotland, northern england, perhaps north wales. But on either side we should see some sunshine bar the odd shower around. So we should see temperatures a little bit higher, 22 degrees in the south and the winds will be lighter here as well. But the next frontal system starts to work it� s way in. This area of low pressure, will be a deepening feature. So the winds will start to pick up through tuesday night. Across the south, rain will push its way northwards, however, the northern half of scotland remaining dry with clear skies and remaining on the cool side. Now this unseasonably deep area of low pressure will move across the country during wednesday, so this is more like an autumnal scene rather than early august. We� ll see gales through the channel, gusts in excess of 50 miles an hour here. 30 to a0 miles an hour, further north. Across england and wales, inland, some heavy rain as well. But again, Northern Parts of scotland will see the driest and the brightest of the weather. There� s the wind gusts on the chart. Just to give you an idea, they� re 30 to a0 mile an hour gusts in the south. And of course, that will impact the temperatures. High teens in the north, maybe just about making 20 or 21 degrees in the south. It won� t feel like that with the wind and the rain. That area of low pressure clears away on thursday, opens the floodgates to a cold northerly wind or a cool northerly wind, i should say. So it� ll be a mixture of sunshine and showers both thursday and friday with that cool northerly wind. And then another area of low pressure arrives just in time for the weekend. Hello, i� m christian fraser. You� re watching the context on bbc news. Better for betterforjobs in better for jobs in scotland, betterforjobs in scotland, but also better for the claimant. I am astonished that rishi sunak is doubling down on his failing and weak policy on climate action. Climate change is here. It is terrifying and it. Isjust the beginning. Drill, baby, drill the republican slogan of 2018 not exactly rishi sunak� s policy in 2023, but not far off. The Prime Minister today announced that hundreds of new licences for oil and gas will be granted. Good for energy security, he says, good for the environment, and better than shipping it halfway around the world. But will it bring down Domestic Energy prices and is the timing right . Last week, a Temperature Buoy off the florida coast registered 38 degrees celsius 101 degrees fahrenheit. And in iraq, the cradle of civilisation, the euphrates is now so dry there are whole villages on the move. July was the hottest month on record. Have we already reached the Point Of No Return . Good evening, it� s energy week here in the uk. The Prime Minister has today made a big commitment to . The . Oil . And gas . Industry. The . Government is intending to issue hundreds of new licences to max out north sea energy. It� s also providing up to £20 billion for carbon capture