Gather intelligence, and send details to the chinese authorities. Were calling him alim, and concealing his identity. Hes a refugee living in the uk. It was an audio call through wechat. 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. 0k. 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 6 7 years since i last saw her, and it was an
But someone has been asked to infiltrate their ranks, gather intelligence, and send details to the chinese authorities. Were calling him alim, and concealing his identity. Hes a refugee living in the uk. It was an audio call through wechat. 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. 0k. 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
Urged people to stay indoors. 0ur correspondent steve mcdonnel has sent this report. unrelenting rain has brought flash flooding to the suburbs of beijing. cars have been washed away at an alarming speed. it s not known how many people have been trapped inside them or how many may have drowned as a result. a red alert has been issued in the capital, with residents told to stay indoors and employers ordered to allow staff to remain at home. hundreds of flights have been cancelled, as have many trains. some passengers have been trapped mid journey, with rising water surrounding their carriages. rivers here have swollen to such an extent that even houses have been swallowed up. bridges in beijing have collapsed, and many city bus services have stopped. emergency services say they ve been recovering bodies from raging waters, and that tens of thousands of people have been moved to safety.
State, as well as the canadian town of 0usoyos. the wildfire called eagle bluff is estimated to be burning more than 12 thousand acres between the two countries. it is just one of more than 1,000 wildfires burning across canada. so far this season, canadian wildfires have burned more than 31 million acres of land. that s more than the area of cuba. in the chinese capital beijing, at least two people have died during the country s strongest storm in years. the storm has triggered widespread flooding causing hundreds of thousands of people to be evacuated across the country. the storm is weakening but china s government has urged people to stay indoors. 0ur correspondent steve mcdonnel has sent this report. unrelenting rain has brought flash flooding to the suburbs of beijing. cars have been washed away at an alarming speed.
While amid the diplomacy, the fighting in ukraine continues and people on the ground pay the price. james landale, bbc news. in a moment, we will talk to our correspondents nomia iqbal in washington and steve mcdonnel in beijing. but first, we can talk to our russia editor, steve rosenberg, who s in yaroslav, in the west of the country. steve, russia is denying it s asked for military help, but it has admitted the war isn t going to plan. the head of the russian national guard, a powerfigure, tell the head of the russian orthodox church not everything was going as fast as they would like it in ukraine. and when i was watching flagship news show on russian state tv i noticed this used used a phrase meaning, with great difficulty to describe how the russian offensive was going. meanwhile the authorities here continued to increase their control