When they called me, i recorded it with my other phone. Alim has shared recordings of those calls. Weve adapted a few to mask key details. We paid a visit to your family in xinjiang. My colleague collected their details. If you want to see them, i can set up a video call. Yes, please arrange that. I just want to talk to them and find out how they are. I wont ask about anything else. Ok, no problem. Ill arrange that for you. Alim was granted a very unusual video call with his mother. The officer connected them by holding two Mobile Phones facing each other. He used one phone to connect with my mother, and then he used another phone to contact me, allowing me to see my mother through his screen. When i saw my mother, i couldnt contain my emotions. It had been six to seven years since i last saw her, and it was an incredibly heart wrenching moment. There was a price to pay. The officer wanted something in return. Weve heard that the uyghur activists are planning to meet next month. We wan
To stop that co2 from being released into the atmosphere, either by re using it, or storing it underground. Take this gas fired Power Station, for example. As the natural gas is burned to generate power, the Carbon Dioxide is separated out from it. Its then diverted via another pipeline and stored underground. If the Acorn Project it is given the go ahead, waste c02 will be piped from Central Scotland here to st fergus using old pipelines. Refineries at mossmoran and grangemouth, as well as a new Power Station at peterhead, have already signed up. And experts and Policy Makers say the technology is vital to meeting net zero climate targets. Bbc scotland reporter ben philip is in aberdeenshire where the acorn Carbon Capture and storage project is based. Hejoins us now. Just take us through exactly what has been announced today for that area. ~ ~ , has been announced today for that area. ~. , ,. , area. Well, lucy, weve been hearing from the premise area. Well, lucy, weve been hearing
nothing unusual about this. let them to speak to its schedule, as i said clearly at the top there is absolutely no reason for beijing to react differently in this regard. thanks, hi, john. i have a question on the summit of the democracies. iraq is the only arab country participating. more adhere to democratic values. summit for democracy gives us a chance to speak at a multi-lateral platform with many nations about what we are all doing to enhance transparency and accountability and abide by the consent of the government, and we are delighted that iraq can participate, and we ll see what the next one looks like and who gets invited to attend and who participates. but we would hope that all democracies as they look at the outcome of this week will want to follow suit. also in israel, you see the attitude of prime minister netanyahu disrespentful of the president? i mean, he s known to not have a good relationship with democratic presidents, including president obama, he
i m john roberts in washington. before we get to china, we begin with president biden pushing back, and the critics who say he is demonizing half the nation. it s a fox news alert. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens republic. quality and democracy are under assault. they spread fear and lies, told for profit and power. maga republicans do not respect the constitution. maga forces are determined to take this country backwards. they embrace anger. they thrive on chaos. they live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies. maga republicans look at america and see carnage and darkness and despair. they spread fear and lies. lies told for profit and power. maga republicans are destroying american democracy. sandra: you ll notice the red backdrop there, some say fitting as he doubled down on his attacks as maga republicans. john: and a marine back there in the speech that was political, but critics say he s lumping together mo
nor whether president putin will attend. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk and another chance to watch stephen sackur s 2014 interview with mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union, who died on tuesday. welcome to a special edition of hardtalk from berlin, with me, stephen sackur. this city is currently marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall, that extraordinary moment which symbolised the beginning of the end of the communist system and the end of the cold war. well, my guest today is this man mikhail gorbachev, the former president of the soviet union, the man whose policies of glasnost and perestroika were supposed to reinvigorate the soviet system but which, in fact, hastened its demise. well, today, he s going to reflect with me on the current state of east west relations. mikhail gorbachev, welcome to hardtalk. it was 1989 here in berlin when the wall came down. it took two more years for the soviet union to collapse. but in your view,