Newsroom. We begegin in hong kong words government says it has disqualified candidates from running. G. They say other people could be facing a similar position. Expressising objectionon to thew nationonal security rule is not supported by the citys constitution. They denied the rule is censorship. Lets cross now to oliver in hong kong. A dramatic move by the Hong Kong Government. Talk us through their announcement. It was something that people were not terribly surprised by for the last few weeks. The prodemocracy siside speculated all 31 of the candidates could find themselves disqualified. 12 of them did get disqualified today. Is the most highprofile of those. Also five District Council members. Is in support of the hong kong secession. Another is a liaiaison with forereign government. Joshua wong has had a number of highprofile meetings with members of u. S. Congress. Nancy pelosi encouraged her to support sanctions on hong kong. Another is in opposition to the National Security law. One disqualified candidate was speaking out against opposition to the National Security law. The Hong Kong Government issued a prepared statement that supportetethe returning opposition. That opposition was to spare you from running in the election. This is something the Hong Kong Government has been doing regularly since 2016. Theyey had been pressed into action to find people unworthy of election on technicalities. Notgovernment says s it does interfere e with freedom of exesession. Depriving people of running for election in this way is quite possibly unconstitutional under hong kongs basic law. Annette what will be the fallout of this movie . Move . Theer were not sure if election in september will go ahead. There are rumors the Hong Kong Government will make a decision anytime now. The faction has wanted to do. Theyre hoping an extra year allow the hong kong public to six side subside. Certainly y if they were to o go ahead, therere would quite likey be more disqualifications. Othermocratat party, the big prodemocracy party in hong kong has yet to have any of its candidates ruled on by the returning offificer. The prodemocracyy camp will presumably find other candidates. Theres a possibility that anyone who ran in the primary could find themselves disqualified. There who could run in a potential election. Win againstctually a very unpopular camp. It might be a very different proodemocracy camp. Annette thank you. On wednesday france reported close to 1400 new coronavirus cases. The highest tally in a month. It continues a weeklong trend of a steady increase of the number of infections. This, as the World Health Organization has warned that young people could be behind the resurgence of the virus across europe. The fears they are not being as careful as older people when it comes to social distancing and wearing masks. Authorities are now considering as to whether they should be worn outside too. About 1000 people partying in paris with no masks insight. Films beforeeen coronavirus. It is in recent weeks. Since france lifted its lockdown, young adults have been meeting up. This is one party organizer. [speaking french] why is this man comfortable discussing this on television . Faced not been fined or any negative consequences for his actions. He doesnt feel covid is a real threat, like many others across the country. Like these friends playing football. Authorities and doctors have repeatedly said even if young people often get milder symptoms or asymptomatic, they are just as likely to infect others. Including people at risk. The number of people tested positive in france has increased. [speaking french] the rate of p positive test has increased to 1. 4 percent, espececially amonong younger people. Meaning patients with covid19 are infecting more people. To the states now where the u. S. Justice department has announced it will send dozens of cities,agents to other a move following similar deployments in cities such as chicago and kansas city. The Trump Administration is planning to withdraw some of federal Security Forces from portland, oregon after weeks of questions. T will depend on joiningg me in the studio is our International Affairs commentator. You are absolutely condititionalhat some forces and d it is conditional l dependnding on do, dot, dot. The trumpet ministration could spin this however they want. Sending federal agents without the consent or without the request of local and state officials including the mayor and governor of that state has been a pr disaster but beyond that has been a catastrophe, a debacle in the way donald trump has been managing mismanaging the protest in the wake of George Floyds killing. It was not not just in portland but beyond. What has basically happened is these protests were taking place and federal agents were deployed in a tiny pocket of Downtown Portland around the federal courthouse. The images generated werent made of images. There were definitely protests which in some cases in a fringe minority did escalate. There were pretty graphic images of that. What happened next is where the handling went wrong. Trump could deny or spin it. He has used these images in manufacturing images, visual and graphical of an america spiraling out of control. Especially the inner cities. Cities that happen to be democratic led cities. It has been amplified by the state run news channel essentially, f fox news. It i is one in which you had the outofcontrol wild left anarchists in innercity america bringing violence and anarchy to a neighborhood near you. It is a very cynical pitch to his base. It has not proven it is effective. Presencee the very became a prophecy. They did escalate some of the backlash from the protesters who were resentful. Annette this comes with a set of conditions. Reporter you could say it knows no limits, even as the oregon state governor says she has reached an agreement with the federal authorities to withdraw some of those troops. Donald trump is threatening to deploy the national guard. Even as they are withdrawing , being ablee troops to rein things in and contain the violence. He is threatening to deploy other types of forces. From the Trump Administrations perspective and say you are withdrawing your forces, they will say nothing of the sort. They will say we are laying down an ultimatum to local and state officials. They better get their act together. It is end of the day, still an ideological tugofwar. There will be Oregon State Police outside the federal courthouse and inside the federal courththouse will be t e federal agents that are normally there. Has this wholole episode backfired on d donald trump . Reportrter at least from the critics perspective it has shown what a dangerous authoritarian leaning. Some would go as far as fascist. You rely on me and i will bring lots of land. He is hoping these images will play to that message, will galvanize his base. They often had the opposite effect. They infuriated a lot of local residents. Presence has galvanize the protest, energize them. In some cases even made them more violent. If they do crackdown more in portland they will take the protest elsewhere. They will not stand for federal agents being used without local and state consent coming to help out. Thihis marks the second day of the smallest pilgrimage and in modern history. Pandemic,due to the only 10,000 people already living in saudi arabia were able to participate in the ritual. That compares with the normal number, somewhere near 2. 5 million people. Celebrate inre to morocco, locals have been asked to limit distance as much as possible. But this comes amid a surge in covivid19 infections in morocc. Almost 2 billion muslims around the world will experience if exterior a peculiar muslim holiday with the threat of more coronavirus cases. People have come to buy a despite most people wearing livestocks fafarmers are worried d about tr finances. [speaking foreign language] reporter according to recent ofistics, 77 moroccan farmers saw them decrease this month. It is also a time of travel. Thousands of morococns usually visit famililies scattered acacs the country. Earlier this week, the government banned alall travel and out o of eight largrge cities. Hat led t to a major rush despite the new restrictions, authorities are deeply worried. On monday, moroccos Health Minister said there hadad been s many new covid19 cases i in one week as there had been in the previous f four mononths. Annette that is it for this edition, stay with us here on france 24. Is a feeling she had forgotten. Something she thought she would never get back. Six months ago on the banks of the river in istanbul, she rediscovered freededom. Today i feel free. I feel good. Breathe, feel free to feel the sun on my skin. For one year, three months, and 10 days, she was trapped in the west of china. In may,l that began 2017 when Police Arrested her in a hotel room. Exhausted. They took me into a secure room with heavy metal doors, which made a lot of noise when they were open. The room was around 20 meteters squarere and there wasas no win. Peoplple inside werere stananding up, the o others lyin the ground a against eacach oth. All l of them wore heavy chainsn their feet. In the cells, she said conditions were difficult with the l lack of basic hygiene, water, and food. She also says she was subjected to brainwashing. They wanted her to o give full allegiance to the communist party. O once aa week ththey showeda video of xi jinping. Then, they told d us to write assessments on ourselves. Every monday att 9 55 we h had o std d up and sing ththe Chinese National a anthem. We had to singgkk five songs every day. I have forgotten the rest. If we didnt sing, they did not give us any food. They punished us. Around 100 camps were thought to be established in western china. According to ngos, there could be more than a million in prison. A muslim group mostly found in the province. The chinese authorities have transformed the region. They have turned it into a sprawlwling police state. Beijing has been pressuring community over the past few years. Under the excuse of launching a clampdowown on religious extremists and the response carried out, chinese authorities aim to reeducate them. 10 are thought to be imprisoned in these camps. Men and women froroevery social class have been caughtht up in e wave of oppression. The local pop start upheld the. Ulture he has also been held in prison. A new culture of chinese concentration camps. Vancouver and canada is over 9000 kilometers away. Campus ofe on the t that they tried to prove the existence of the camp. T there was a gap to carve out here. I had heard of these kind of things before. I decided to check it myself and do some research. His bedroom he started to gather official chinese documents. Orders, using the addresses he had uncncovered, he managed to locate camps on satellite imageses. He drew his own map which he published. Campsites e have images. According to sean there are hundreds of camps. Because theyfiable are billed differently than prisons. From pictures i could definitely tell if it is s a facility. Here, here, here. About 35 meters higher if you compare it with the shadows. S. I i see these featureses in mano the camps. S. Highsecurity camps appear to have spread swiftly. Lots in 2016, there were only a few houses. According to a restricted dodoment that sean was a able to c camp could house over 3000 people. T theyink one reason is are detaining more and more people. They have to build the camps to contain them. We visited the province several times hoping to get near one of these camps. Foreign journalists were not welcome there. As s soon as we arrived, we were followed by several vehicles like this white car. This one. Frequently ststopped and quesestioned by men in plain clothes. We were forbidden from filming in the streets. After three stays in the province, we were arrested seven times in total. Like on this road near the camp. A police roadblock that stop us from going further. We were then taken to this police statition where agents verified our identity and interrogated us. We filmed secretly. Youre a journalist . What did you come here to do . We told him we werere here to film the camps. T there is no reeducation cap here. There is no camp . P . No, there is an. T tres a big one, l lots of people. No, there isnt. It could be seen on this satellite image but we could not get near it. These policemen keep forcing us to make uturns. Inn the11 million provovince, it has bececome an openair prison. N. , ande h headquarters checkpoints crisscross the region. They are constantly searched. The contents of their mobile phones change regularly. Of a newt the forefront facial recognition system n now deplployed a across china. Hundreds of thousands of cameras watch every street and every mosque. Theyey could be seen on the inse of taxis and the entries to public toilets. The life under surveilillance is nono longer the ononly burden. They risk being sent to the camps at any time. The cares ac in some towns entire neighborhoods have been emptied of their inhabitants. Doors of shops and h houses have been sealed up. Herehe families who lived have been arrested. Is closed,ext door isnt it . Why . Y . Here and no house one next door is closed. Where did the people go . The people . But neighbor interrupts refuses to be film. Hey, im darius rucker. Coming up onreel south. Join the crowd as we move forward, demanding justice join the crowd [man] ladies and gentlemen, at this time id like to discuss confederate monuments. [darius] in new orleans, reckoning with the past aint always easy. This guy right here, he fought to keep it that way. [darius]s] in the year o of tumultlt, the e citizens o of the bg easy stand their ground in the face of monumental controversy. [man] this is a battle for the public spaces. S. [darius] a divided city cries out. This time, on reel south. [female narrator] support for this progrgram is provided by south arts, sponsors of the southern circuit tour