heart of china s highly secret in incarceration. includes details of the sheet kill policy. the murder of this toddler. the boyfriend is jailed. west ham defender pleads guilty to kicking and slapping a cat under offences under the animal welfare act. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. speaking for the first time, insiders who attended gatherings in downing street during covid lockdowns have told bbc news that they would arrive at work to find bins overflowing with empty bottles from the night before, and that parties were routine. they say staff sat on each other s laps at a leaving do in november 2020, where the prime minister has now been pictured, and that security guards were laughed at when they tried to stop one party from taking place. borisjohnson is facing fresh questions about his attendance at the leaving party, and the metropolitan police are facing calls to explain why the prime minister wasn t issued with a fine. 0ur political correspondent ben wright has
on the lockdown gatherings could appear tomorrow. also tonight. another £800 rise in annual energy bills is likely that s the warning from the industry regulator. there has been a shooting at an elementary school in texas. we report from ukraine on the comprehensive medical efforts being made as the conflict shows no sign of abating. you get the feeling that they ve settled in for a long hard attritional struggle. and railway workers in the rmt union have voted in favour of strike action across england, scotland and wales involving 13 train companies. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. au revoirjo wilfried tsonga. the french fan favourite bids farewell in his final match at roland garros, as he retires from the sport. good evening. the prime minister is under renewed pressure tonight over gatherings during lockdown following the latest revelations by people who worked in downing street at the time. they describe a culture in which parties were routine desp
tried to escape from the re education camps. all of this comes from an anonymous source who claims to have hacked them from a number of police service inside xinjiang and although they are unwilling to give us any details about their identity or their whereabouts, we have managed to verify and authenticate many of the files in the hacked data. these are the faces china never intended us to see, from inside its system of mass incarceration in xinjiang. the government has long denied it s running detention camps for uyghurs, insisting instead they are vocational schools for willing students. the photos, almost 3,000 of them, show the reality of how whole swathes of uyghur society have been swept up person by person. the oldest was 73 at the time of her detention. the youngest, just 15. the uyghurs, with their turkic
so this is really very powerful about the image material. i was looking through these images on my laptop in the living room and had to get up and go somewhere else and take a break. i was overwhelmed. the hacked files also contain hundreds of spreadsheets, row upon row of draconian jail sentences often targeting expressions of islamic faith, as a parallel method alongside the camps for detaining uyghurs en masse. just for growing a beard, this man was sentenced to 16 years injail. his chosen expression of uyghur identity forcibly removed. by speaking to members of the uyghur diaspora in places like turkey, the bbc has been able to verify the data, showing it to contain real people. this man, for example, knew his eldest son had beenjailed but the database tells him for how long. 15 years for terrorism offences. although as evidence,