A major announcement in the entertainment industry. The future of friends and netflix and why seeing your favorite shows may soon get harder and more expensive. And plastic shaming. A creative and embarrassing way to get people to stop using plastic bag, but does it go too far . Good wednesday morning. Thanks for joining us. We begin with a growing political fallout from the arrest of financial mogul Jeffrey Epstein on sex trafficking charges. Labor secretary Alexander Acosta is facing new calls to resign over his role in a 2008 plea deal that allowed him to avoid federal prosecution for allegedly molesting teen girls. President trump is expressing sympathy for acosta but now is distancing himself from epstein, a man he once called a terrific guy. Trevor ault has the new details from washington. Reporter yeah, so the source goes back 11 years when Jeffrey Epstein struck a deal to serve less than two years in prison and avoid a possible life sentence in an investigation involving 40 tee
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 ot
Reporting from washington, i am painful stories of separation and Chinas Xinjiang region. Reports of children being taken from families and placed in secure state schools. A powerful sixoint four earthquake strikes Southern California, the biggest in 20 years. Authorities are assessing the damage and residents are fillinr a series of aocks. Plus, capturing midcentury america. How six female photographers for lifeagazine broke down barriers and left an enduring legacy laura for those watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to bbcorld news america. Tonight we start with a special report of new evidence that children and Chinas Xinjiang region are being systematically set separated from families and placed in secure state schools. Official documents reveal large numbers of boarding schools have been built, housing children is your young as two. They areargeted as members of chinas uighur Muslim Community some parents say their children have disappeared and they have no idea where th
They are. Tonight evidence of boarding schools, surrounded by barbed wire, housing children as young as two from a minority community. With thousands of adults in re education camps, we reveal uncover a parallel campaign to remove children from their language, religion and roots. And the other main stories on tonights programme. The Bookmaker William Hill plans to close 700 shops, putting 4,500 jobs at risk. Made the best man win. Is his campaign fizzing, as he claims . Tory leadership contender jeremy hunt on why the race is all to play for. How doctors are failing people like tim mason. In pain and sent home, he later died of sepsis. He was begging us to help him and the doctors and nurses. And andy murray triumphant in his mens doubles match as he returns to wimbledon for the first time in two years. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news a heros return. After 13 years as a player, Frank Lampard is the new manager of chelsea. Good evening. Disturbing evidence of Muslim Children in c
Now President Trumps being accused of politicising the 4th ofjuly. And as we gear up for this weekends final, well be asking if the womens world cup has become a game changer for sponsorship and equal pay. Announcer live from our studios in singapore and london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7am in xinjiang in the far west of china, in xinjiang in the far west of china, where the bbc has uncovered disturbing evidence that Muslim Children are being systematically separated from their families. Official documents show that large numbers of state boarding schools have been built to house children as young as two. Our correspondent John Sudworth nowjoins me from beijing. John, tell us, what is happening in xinjiang . Well, ricoh, its long been known that the mass incarceration of hundreds of thousands of adults in that part of china is likely to have an effect on Wider Society and on children in particular. Our investigation