medicine and now protests are erupting janis mackey frayer is in china with more. reporter: tonight china s financial capital shanghai locked down. 26 million people confined to their homes. the omicron variant spreading fast a record 23,000 new cases saturday and outrage rising too. over china s strict no-covid policy on social media videos not verified by nbc news described as protests by people desperate to get food and medicine store shelves cleared out. this man on the street yelling what am i supposed to buy? what am i supposed to eat? in some areas drones telling people to stay home. control your soul s desire for freedom, it says. robots patrolling the streets, reminding residents to wear masks and wash their hands. while across the city a covid dragnet. thousands of asymptomatic cases sent to mass quarantine centers, some still under construction american josh vaughn tested positive last week he s now confined to a hospital they like gave me this like little blue mat an
country voted to form a union. it happened in buffalo, new york, where union organizers said workers were embolden as they worked through the pandemic workers at another starbucks in buffalo voted not to unionize. a third store still uncertain. china is facing international outrage after an independent tribunal accused the government of committing genocide against the muslim uyghurs in a new report out today keir simmons with more now from london. reporter: tonight china s human rights record condemned again just days after the u.s. announced a diplomatic boycott of the beijing games. in this court-like setting in london today, a judgment from an international tribunal. the prc has committed genocide. reporter: uyghur muslims, a minority group from western china, have been speaking out witness after witness saying things like punishments including savage beatings, sleep and food deprivation police officers took the children away by
to a chinese prison. i should stay strong i have three children. reporter: while we were with her, she gets a call from him in prison. what did he say? he said he was really scared. reporter: families divided by chinese authorities who accuse uyghurs of trying to create a separate country. these issues are purely china s domestic affairs the chinese embassy in washington told us we are firm in upholding national sovereignty, security and development interests. their statement ending stop making irresponsible remarks. are you scared no. reporter: why not i think the worst is happening already and it can t be worse than this. reporter: the u.s. has already accused of china of genocide. while this week more countries joined america s diplomatic boycott of the beijing games. lester keir, thank you. coming up, after a
force. among the evidence the panel has reviewed, leaked documents alleging china s president authorized this treatment this uyghur gave evidence she has documented 232 re-education camps, 257 prisons. there is a genocide going on there are millions of people being locked up in this so-called re-education camps. reporter: we traveled to istanbul where thousands of uyghur refugees live in exile here a recreation of a chinese re-education camp the refugees say are being used in china right now. they call them concentration camps with torture rooms this is an interrogation room yes this is a tiger chair. reporter: a tiger chair? you call it a tiger chair. reporter: but even outside china, uyghurs don t feel safe. her husband was arrested in morocco earlier this year. she is left with their young children and fears he will be sent
where the bodies could be buried. president biden will also be in town tomorrow to pay his respects. major. garrett: the discussions have indeed begun. omar villafranca in tulsa. thank you. and this important programming note: tonight gayle king anchors a cbs news special, tulsa 1921n american an american tragedy, at 10:00, 9:00 central, right here on cbs. there is still much more news ahead on tonight s cbs evening news, including why china decide to let couples have more children, and a huge surprise gift for two entire collegiate graduating classes. and graduating g gifts foror who entirere collegiaiate grad wewet classes. get t a hobby. yoyou should m meditate. eat t crunchy fofoods. gogo for a runun. go foror 10 runs!! rurun a maraththon. are you kikidding me?!?! instead,d, start smamall.