Think the chinese care. the directors of two businesses associated with the sites in hendon and glasgow didn t respond to panorama. the owner of the third in croydon says the accusations against him are baseless . china may be targeting its critics abroad, but should we all be worried about chinese cameras lining our streets? hikvision and dahua are two of the biggest video surveillance companies in the world. ..with combined annual profits of almost £2 billion. china s been accused of using these cameras to control and monitor the minority muslim uyghur population. cameras made by hikvision
In at least 53 countries. human rights group safeguard defenders says some of these sites may have been used for persuasion to return operations of chinese ex pats. using public records, they estimate more than 7,000 people around the world have been forced to return to china. i mean, imagine the idea that you are not safe anywhere, that they can get to you anywhere you are, that they will employ every means necessary, you know, to either shut you up or get you back to china. i don t think there s anything more sinister than that. police here are aware of at least three sites in the uk. 0ne located at an office block in croydon. ..one at an estate agency in hendon. ..and one at a restaurant in glasgow.
My grandfather had more than that. as well as being a wealthy capitalist, he was also on the city council. he was representative of the jewish community, so he had a lot that they could arrest him for. except not actually having done anything wrong. but they didn t require that. and he was accused of strengthening the might of capitalist poland. he disappeared into the gulag. my grandmother is told, come back in four days and we ll tell you what happened to him. and after three days, they arrest everyone else, including my grandmother and my father. you ve got these two forces, the nazis and the communists, both arresting elites. in the case of the nazis, it sjews, who happen to be shopkeepers, and in the case of the communists it s shopkeepers who happened to be jews. and similar things therefore happened to both sides of the family, hence the book is hitler, stalin, mum and dad, and they sort of process their experience, i suppose, in the same way, and we ended up in hendon in the su
Divisive judicial reforms stopped for a minute s silence to remember the victims of these latest attacks. politics and religion may divide people here. grief and loss is familiar to all. lucy williamson, bbc news, jerusalem. well we heard rabbi leo dee speaking there i m joined now by his close friend rabbi mordechai ginsbury the senior rabbi at hendon united synagogue where rabbi leo dee and his family lived for three years. thank you very much for talking to us today. i understand he came to work as an assistant rabbi?- work as an assistant rabbi? thank ou, aood work as an assistant rabbi? thank you, good afternoon. work as an assistant rabbi? thank you, good afternoon. yes, - work as an assistant rabbi? thank you, good afternoon. yes, he - work as an assistant rabbi? thank i you, good afternoon. yes, he came with his delightful family you, good afternoon. yes, he came with his delightfulfamily in you, good afternoon. yes, he came with his delightful family in 2008. it was the