Federal troops to leave, accusing them of abusive tactics against protesters. And blast off, as the first arab mission to mars launches successfully. Hello. We start with chinas ambassador to the uk denying reports that his country is carrying out a programme of sterilisation of uighur women in the western part of country, xinjiang. Reports and eyewitness accounts have accused china of trying to reduce the uighur population. The uighur muslims are the Largest Ethnic Group in chinas far west xinjiang region. China denies human rights abuses there, but theres evidence of mosques being destroyed as you see in these before and after pictures and uighurs say they are subject to intense state surveillance. Britains foreign secretary, dominic raab, said there were gross human rights abuses going on there and that he found it deeply troubling. It comes amid a rise in diplomatic tension between the two countries. Caroline hawley reports. Hong kong in crisis. The protests have been going on for
Second spike of covid i9 this winter. And watford have sacked their manager Nigel Pearson with just two games to go in the premier league season. As the club fights to avoid relegation. Hello and welcome to bbc world news. Chinas ambassador to the uk has denied reports that beijing is carrying out a programme of forced sterilisation of uighur women in the Western Region of the country xinjiang. He acknowledged that there may be some cases. He was interviewed on the Andrew Marr Show this morning and wish own testimony from a women who had suffered forced sterilisation. Foreign secretary said he was deeply troubled by what he said were chinas egregious human rights abuses of the uighur population. Here are some of those interviews. There is no socalled pervasive, massive forced sterilisation among uighur people in china. It is totally against. The government is strongly opposed to this kind of practice. I cannot rule out single cases for any country. These are single cases stop there is
The huge swarms of Desert Locusts in asia that could increase by 20 fold if theyre not tackled. And blast off as the first arab mission to mars launches successfully. Hello. We start with chinas ambassador to the uk denying reports that his country is carrying out a programme of sterilisation of uighur women in the western part of country xinjiang. Reports and eyewitness accounts have accused china of trying to reduce the uighur population by forced sterilisation. The uighur muslims are the Largest Ethnic Group in chinas far west xinjiang region. China denies human rights abuses there, but theres evidence of mosques being destroyed as you see in these before and after pictures and uighurs say they are subject to intense state surveillance. Britains foreign secretary, dominic raab, said there were gross human rights abuses going on there and that he found it deeply troubling. It comes amid a rise in diplomatic tension between the two countries Caroline Hawley has the story. Hong kong in
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This is bbc news welcome if youre watching here in the uk or around the globe. Im Lewis Vaughan jones. Our top stories china denies an accusation by britains foreign minister, that its carrying out human rights abuses against its uighur population. Can i ask you why people are kneeling, blindfolded and shaven and being led to trains in modern china . Why what is going on there . I do not know where you get this video tape. President trump has defended his handling of the coroanvirus pandemic, incorrectly telling fox news that the us has the lowest mortality rate in the world. I heard we have one of the lowest, maybe the lowest mortality rate anywhere in the world. Do you have the numbers, please . Because i heard we had the best mortality rate. The mayor of the us city of portland calls on federal troops to leave, accusing them of abusive tactics against protesters. And blast off as the first arab mission to mars launches successfully. Hello. We start with chinas ambassador to the uk d